INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 655, 31 March 1870, Page 4

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Live fish from, the Murray are being transferred from that river to the waters of the Avoca. The a^her day, five hundred Murray cod and, trout were forwarded to the Avoca A.ccliuiatisi;itioii , Society by Mr Pa*coe, Mr Lewen, who went duwn a3 far us, Castlemaine in the train in charge of the fish, reports thai they all arrived there alive and in excel-, lent order. They w-ire taken on to Avoca Vi a conveyance, and were placed, in the ■water in a most satisfactory condition 1 . The fish were supplied by the Murray Fishing Company. ' ; On the, ?7th nit, a splitter named Hoiden found an almost perfect skeleton of a man, apparently about three .mouths dead, in the'Woady Yallock Greek, Danderrorig Ranges.' An inquest was -opened yesterday, when, it was elicited that two letters addressed to "Wm, Walton, Esq., I^iindale, Cambrook," and '-'Win. Walton, Esq., fionr- mills, Carisbrook, Victoria;' 1 were found amongst the remains of vlothr jnir, aleuy with two cavtesrde-vteite. The body had not been identified, ami the inquiry was aJjnu.rned. The Ovens qnd Murray Spectator says :— (l Power the bushranger is repotted to have perjieliatecl another ro.bbcry at the Devil's River — better known,, perhaps, to ?ome of our readers aa the Delatite, between Ja,iuieson and Mansjield. A miner plained Matthew Kennedy whs, on j&itnr<';;y last, the srh of March, riding, from the former to the latter township, when about one o'clock", within two miles of i\w Di'Vil •! HiW'i", :l )n:l " vvilli v dark veil

upon his face rode out from the bush aud orderad him to s.ta.nd. Kennedy rode on, and the robhor rode after him, and tired a revolver— a* Kennedy thinks, ouly lo intimidate him. Kennedy then pulled up, and the man orderecl him to dismount, which he did, the robber- doing the B;vue, asking him at the same time if ho had any money. He said no, but was. told to turn out his pockets. He did so, and one of them contained a purse in which were ono L 5 note, four LI notes, and 11s in silver. The bushranger appropriated tho notes, but graciously returned the silver. In another pocket were 15ihyt of gold. am.ongst which were five small nuggets ; oije weighing 4dwt Sgr was three-cornered, and hollow iv the centre., The face of the robber was all thjs. time quite concealed by the veil." A shocking accident with firearms has occurred at Wa.lha.lla, to a man named Jain.es. Smith. He was oiit shooting in the gullies between hi 3 home and the township, when in stepping over a huge log, the butt of the gun game into contact with the timber, an.l the cqneusaion caused the hammer, which had. incautiously been le.ft at full qqck, to fall and discharge the piece. The. muzzle was at this, instant within a_n inch of Smith's neck, a.nd the whole of the contents cntyred liig threat immediately below the chin on the loft sido of the windpipe, and tra,vep3ing an oblique course, found an exit behind the left ear, inflicting a -large lacera.te.cl gash, and literally tearing several portiuns of the flesh away, . The poor follow now lies' in. a very precarious condition, although hopes are euteir-tainocl of his ultimate recovery. We ( Daijlesfurd Mercury) are informed tltat a new complication has arisen in the case of the Freehold Company. It is said that the fee-simple of ihe property belonged to not less than four persons, only one oi whom joined in the conveyance of the land when it was sold for mining purposes, One of the. original proprietors of the ground is an Italian, who some t!me ago went to New Zealand. Learning from a friend here, however, what a rich lode had. been struck in the land, he has returned to enforce his claim to a share of the property. Mr Qoorge Edward. Thonip-. son, solicitor, of tliis town, is now taking the usual steps 'to obtain an injunction from the Supreme Court to restrain the company from further working the ground, It will he a great misfortune should the proceedings at law put a stop t f > further operations in the mine, We believe that some time ago a well-known resident was offered the property for L 5, and refused to give even that amoiint for it, We (Argus) were sjiown on the 9th, by a : gentleman ' who left ifiunceston on Tuesday by the s.s. Tamar, some samples of alluvial gold taken fraui prospecting ground on the Piper River, nca.r the claim of the. Back Creek Company. The gold was tine and very bright in color, resembling very closely the alluvial gold obtained in the Beechworth district. In each ins.ta.nce the sample wa3 from a single dish of waslidirt, obtained in every case at or nea.r the surface, the lowest depth out of four washings being 4ft. bin. The results obtajnud from these .vashiqgs are considered to be very encouraging, a:id the prospectors have taken care to mark out their claims. With regard to the quartz reefs at the Waterhouse, the Pioneer and Welshman's, we are informed, are making most progress. At Fingal the Union Company is beginning to crush, Berlin is turning out to lie a valuable, gold field. The Jnghioood Advsrt.is&r- of March 85, in noticing the discovery of several more large nuggets, says :—■ :" Last week appeared to be even more prolific than u,mal in, the production <rf nuggets, large and small, on this, wonderful field, Oil Thursday, in Johns*s paddock, a fine piece, weighing 128oz, was, gotbj a Qhinainan, besides, several ounces in smaller bits. O.n Saturday lajst the Bank of New South Wales, here purchased 2Q3oz, one beautiful piece, got by Smith and party, at the stockyard, Tyler's, weighing 2120z, and tlie remainder, consisting of nuggets, ranging from loz to Ooz, have been got from Johns's paddock. T-Jie. splendid yields from the old workings are not, howeveV, a. s.ufiicient criterion of the extent and value of the auriferous deposits of : Berlin, Fresh discoveries of rich patches a.id l§ads are made every week, and the limits of the field are yet, it appears, far from having been reached. On Saturday last another new rush set in near Christmas Flat to a new gully just opened, from which a prospect of 4oz, off the bottom was tajken.