MISCELLANEOUS.
An eaglehawk, it is said, lately carried off an infant between Cobbora and Mudgee, and devoured it. The Duchy of Cornwall accounts, published on the 17th February, show that the Prince of Wales received for his personal use from this source L 63,587 4s dining the j>ast year. The London correspondent of the Freeman's Journal, writing on Saturday, says : — "I am informed, on authority on which reliance may be placed, that it having been reported • that O'Donovan Rossa had been guilty of insubordination, he was lately subjected to corporeal punishment, having received ten lashes of the cat-o'-nine-tails." M. Guizot, at Ihe ago of eighty-three, is again 'becoming the" most prominent man in France. He has accepted the presidency of an extra - Parliamentary commission to re-model the system of superior education. On Saturday, says the Mail, there was a fine sample of gold displayed in the window of the gold office of the Bank of Australasia, Castlemaine. The wnole lot weighed over lOOoz. One of the pieces weighed 240z, another Boz, and another 6oz. The remaining portion was composed of pieces of the size of raisins. The lucky finders declined to give the slightest clue to the locality in which they were working, beyond that it was south of Castlemaine.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 677, 21 May 1870, Page 4
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210MISCELLANEOUS. Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 677, 21 May 1870, Page 4
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