INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 764, 10 December 1870, Page 4

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

The following extracts are from papers to the 28th ult., brought by the Waterman, and kindly furnished to us by Captaiu Le Brun : — Hickey and Rush have been matched at Sydney f or. LlOO a-side, to pull in three weeks. • Two large salmon trout were caught in the Plenty, and were brought to town and showed at the Mercury office. On Friday, whilst a man named Henry Stokes was engaged felling timber at Middle Gully, a tree fell upon him, and killed him almost immediately. ■ Oii Tuesday last, Thomas Mitchell, a miner, met with his death at Dry Creek, near Mansfield, through a quantity of earth falling in upon him whilst he was at work in his claim. Ho was working alone at the time, and how the earth fell in is not known. The skeleton of a man was found a few days ago near the Shaw River, at St. Helen's. An inquest was held at Belfast, when it appeared likely, from the remains of the clothing that were found near the body, that it was that of a, man who early in September passed through Waltrim. A., horse that the man was riding camo back about two hours after with the bridle and saddle on, and appeared to have been swimming. • ; The horse . was subsequently found to have been stolen from Tower Hill. The assumption was that he was drowned, and that it was his remains that were now discovered. The enquiry was adjourned for further evidence. The Sandhurst Borough Council, sitting in committee the other day, had rather a stormy meeting. In the course of the proceedings the mayor said that "the way in which some: of the councillors sought to carry on the business reminded him of a paragraph he had read the other clay in the Cliicago Tribune, which referred to the doings of one of the public Councils there, when one of the members said that they had come to regard one another as ' either a liar or a thief.' He thought that the.- Sandhurst Council was drifting, into a similar course." : The Ooens Advertiser reports : — " The amount of gold forwarded on "Wednesday from the Ovens district by escort for the past eight weeks was 16,7500z 2dwt 3gr, an increase of 8630z on the quantity previously sent down. .Although the fact of there being an increase is to a certain extent gratifying, yet the returns are considerably below what might be expected at this season of the year. This may be partly attributed to the damage done to many of the sluicing claims by the recent floods, and the suspension of work in the quartz reefs, owing to excess of water, but there is no doubt that it is also partially due to the gradual exhaustion of the shallow alluvial workings in many parts of the district." : The KUtoutiv Free : Press 'reports that "some evil-disposed person or persons made a determined attempt, at an early hour on Wednesday, to burn down the Dry Creek bridge, on the . main Sydney road, »ear Bradford. The fir3f person who saw the five, and who immediately gave the alarm, was Mr Jeremiah Ryan, of the Bradford toll-gate, who was also most active in endeavoring to s extinguish the flames^- which had taken a strong hold jof the bridge when he first saw them. He was ably assisted in this work by Mr Philbriek aud Mr M'Leisb, both of whom were brought to the spot by his cries for

assistance, and the flames were got under | after considerable trouble. Mr Ryan ran j a risk of being severely burned in his laudable efforts to save the bridge, and, whilst removing some driftwood from underneath the arches, hot cindei-3 fell j upon him, and, to save himself from get- i ting severely burned, he had to throw j himself in the water." j The question of the validity of a mar- i riage celebrated in Scotland between two domiciled Victorians came before the Equity Court on Saturday, under somewhat peculiar circumstances. Mr William Swan, a wealthy settler in the Western District, and the father of eleven children, became attached to Catherine M' Arthur, the daughter of his deceased wife's sister, and finding some obstacle to their union in Victoria, determined to go to Scotland to get married. In October, 1868, they sailed together for Scotland, and in the following May were married by a Scotch clergymen at Greenock. A few weeks afterwards, he died suddenly without making another will. Steps were taken by his relatives in Victoria to prove a will made previous to his marriage, and probate was granted. Hia wife shortly afterwards returned to the colony, and took out a rule to revoke probate, on the ground that her marriago revoked any prior will. The question then arose, jwas her marriage with her uncle a valid one, revoking the will, or was it null and void, and, consequently, not able to affect it 1 The case was elaborately argued on Saturday, numerous authorities being cited on either side, and judgment was reserved.

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