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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 654, 29 March 1870, Page 2

A girl named Hodgkiss has been committed for wilfully murdering her illegitimate child at Balmain. A man named Wakefield stabbed a shepherd named Harry, near Mudgee. Death was instantaneous. The murderer has been arrested. Gold has been struck at the High Plains, between Harrietville and Crooked River. The prospectors got a quart pot full of gold from their claim. On the 11th, the flood in the Hunter destroyed the newly-erected flood-gate 3, and inundated the vicinity of Wallis Creek. The Hunter has risen 32ft. The maize crop: is greatly damaged. The embankment at the Horseshoe Bend, Maitland,. ha 3 been swept away. The river rushed in furiously, submerging the houses and causing terrible destruction to property. Business is entirely suspended. Mr Warden , chief steward of the steamer Ballina, has been drowned at Grafton. ■ At about half-past 7 o'clock on the morning of the 11th, Walter Stewart, living at Emerald Hill, discovered floating In the Yarra, near the Falls bridge, the body of a woman, unknown, apparently between 28 and 30years of age, described as tall and stout, with dark hair, dressed in a muslin dress, black mohair jacket, and . old straw hat. No , property was found on the body to lead to its identity. A post mortem examination was made by Dr Neild, who found that the left eye was completely black, as if from a blow, and the right eye slightly discolored. There, were three marks the right cheek, and* some other marks, but all slight, and such as might have been caused by a fall on a snag or. other sharp substance. There were no marks suggestive of purposed violence, and the cause of death was drowning. A fatal explosion of fire-damp, resulting in the death of two men and injury to the third, has taken place at the claim of the Guiding Star Company, Mona Lead, between Indigo and Rutherglen. The men were in an old part of the workings, which was suspected of being foul. They were provided with safety lamps, but, notwithstanding this precaution, they had not been long down before a terrific explosion took, place. . Thomas Howe anc Walter Routledge received such injuries that their death must have been instantaneous, and the manager (Joseph Dean) is serverely injured. ' The prevalence of an inclination towards suicide just now in Melbourne is something astonishing. Another attempt was made oti the' morning; of the 9lh, at about a quarter to 3 o'clock, when a young woman of respectable appearance and well-dressed, named Mary Jane Le Capelaine, .went to Constable Rivis, who was on duty at Prince's Bridge, and said, f< I wish to give you my portrait and marriage lines, as. I don't mean to see you any more, and I wish you to give the,ra to my friends." She then crossed the bridge to the Melbourne side, and Rivis fallowed her softly till she got to the end of the bridge, ■ wh§n she made off towards the Melbourne side of the river. Rivis ran after her, but she ran very fast^ until she stumbled and fell. When the constable asked her what she was about she replied, "If it had not been for falling, I would have put it out of your power to put me in the watchhouse." On being brought before the City Bench, shp seemed very penitent, and was crying, but saidnothiug, and the magistrates remanded her for medical inquiry, after which shq was discharged.. :