INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume X, Issue 819, 13 March 1871, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

A man named Farmer has been killed at the Moonta mines. Mr Mathew Macalister was drowned in the Nicholson River. " ..'#,' A discovery of valuable tin ore has been made by a Cornish miner in the Braidwood district. ♦ M'Leod, late planter in the Sandwich ~ Islands, has been committed for murdering Truman, his partner. A boy ten years of age, son of Mr W. E. Richards, of Castlemaine, was killed by a kick from his pony. Mr Gibson, accountant at the Sydney Mint was burnt by a kerosene lamp exploding. Splendid quartz reefs have been discovered at Tenterfield. One hundred ounces of gold are expected from one ton of quartz. The testimonial subscribed on behalf of Mr Grant, formerly Minister of Lands, amounts to over L3OOO. The detailed accounts of the wheat harvest show that the actual result is as bad as the worst anticipations. The reports to hand from the vineyards in the neighborhood of Geelong, according to the Advertiser, are decidedly encouraging, and there is every reason to believe the yields will be far more abundant than they were last season. "'-^' In New South Wales, the Government of Sir James Martin have submitted their new tariff, which is based on the ad valoretn principle, and closely approximates to that of Victoria. An amendment hostile to its adoption was defeated by a majority of 11. A man named Patrick Casey has been arrested at Colac on the serious charge of rape. Under other alaises he has been already convicted and sentenced for assault with intent, and again for indecent assault. t ) The case of the woman Ellen Tigh§, who was convicted at the late Criminal Sessions of the murder of her infant child, and sentenced to death, was considered by the Executive Council, and under the peculiar circumstances of the\ case the sentence was commutted to l&jj*. years' imprisonment. At Gympie, an aboriginal named. Sammy attacked a miner named Pincher while he I was asleep in his hut. Pincher fled to another tent, where he got a gun, with which he shot Sammy in the back. Prncher then went and informed the police. There is a warrant out against Sammy for the murder of a gin. A young woman, named Elizabeth Miller, threw herself into the Yarra near Prince's Bridge, about 6 o'clock, on the 2nd inst., but was pulled out by Mr Edwards, boat-builder. After she had been taken out she struggled very hard, and made a second attempt to get into the river, but was held fast and taken to the city warehouse. A fatal accident occurred on Sunday afternoon at about 3 o'clock, to a young man named William Finlay, residing at Emerald Hill, who was drowned whilst bathing in the Yarra, near Fisherman's Bend, Sandridge. The deceased's body was reoovered, and conveyed to the Fountain Inn, Bay street, North Sandridge. Business is business, and it would be hard if a minister might not do a smart piece of bargaining occasionally as well as a person in any other line ; at least one who lives in this portion of Victoria (says the Ballarat Star) thinks that way. Hearing the other day that a wine and spirit merchant was about to be married, he solicited the favor of his custom when he wished to haye the knot tied, informing him that, as times were bad, he would not mind taking the payment out in spirits. " An accident occurred at Bairnsdale,"

relates the Gipps Land Tinies, "whic resulted in the death, by drowning, < James Griffiths, a sodawater manufacture thgre. It appears that on Sunday I weiit down the river in a boat with som friends, and while the others were batl ing he, although not able to swin Popped also, and holding on to the giu wale of the boat, amused himself duel ing. At last he somehow lo3t his hoi and sank. Some of the Pleasant Creekites hay hit on a sure method to demonstrat their joy on the marriage of the Marqui of Lorn and the Princess Louise, whe that interesting event comes off, which i is to do this month. The Pleasant Cree News says:— "The flying of the flag a the Argyle claim, on the Big Hill, oi Wednesday, caused some amount of spe culation, as it was generally suppose* that the demonstration was made to cele brate the Marquis of Lorn's wedding day but unfortunately the exact ' time does not appear to be known. The proprietors think of unfurling the flag daily until the early part of March be past, so as tc make sure of the correct date." The police have arrested a man named Rogers, supposed to be the murderer oi Davies, the hawker, who was found dead at Forbes a fortnight ago. Some property found in the prisoner's possession is known to have belonged to Davies. Rogers was brought up at the Central Police Court, and remanded to give the polico time to collect evidence. An accident happened to the up coach at Badiginnie, on the 28th ult. The driver, Tommy Hoyle, was so seriously injured that he died in a few hours. Mr Wells, of Bowman's Forest, had several ribs broken, and was otherwise hurt. Mr Whitehead, another passenger, and the guard are slightly injured. The accident was caused by the horses starting before they were properly fastened, whereby the driver lost all power over the coach, which, coming in contact with a heap of road metal, was upset. The mails were only delayed for half an hour. Great regret is expressed at Hoyle's untimely death. An unmistakeable shock of an earthquake was felt on Tuesday evening, 28th ultimo, in Melbourne and the suburbs. The time is variously stated by our informants at from twenty minutes to ten minutes to 10 o'clock ; but Mr Ellery says that sixteen minutes to the hour was the exact moment of the occurrence. The shock was much more perceptible than the one which occurred about eighteen months ago, and seems to have extended over a far wider area. It lasted four or five seconds, and the vibration was sufficient to disturb furniture, shake Venetian blinds, and clink the drops of chandeliers. The rumbling is described by one lady informant as reminding her of muttered thunder, and inducing her to ask whether it was actually a clap. The unnatural stillness which followed is mentioned by another lady, who also distinctly felt the shock from west to east, as confirmed by Mr Ellery. As the hour at which the little convulsion occurred was favorable to its peculiarities beiug noted by most people, we may expect fuller particulars will yet be published. At about twenty minutes past seven o'clock, on the night of the 3rd inst., a man named Edward Dickson, who resides in a hut close to the gas works, discovered the body of a middle-aged man floating in an inlet off the Tarra in the vicinity of his house. Information of the discovery j was conveyed to constable JRiordan, who had the body recovered and conveyed to the morgue. The remains have been identified by Henry H. Raymond, of the barque Annie, as being those of a lumper on the wharf, whose real name is not known. He was known by the name of Topay, and was last seen alive on the wharf on Saturday evening. The wife of •Hie deceased is supposed to reside somewhere in King street. The dunes Gazette announces a very Berious accident which happened at the Lothair Company's shaft to two men engaged in blasting. Their names are James Swainson and J. Roberts. They were blasting the rock, and the charge they put in failed to go off, and they consequently went down to take it out again. In doing so it exploded. Swainson has been seriously injured about his face ; it is feared he will lose one of his eyes ; while Roberts had part of his hand blown off, and his leg broken just below the knee. A shell from an enemy's mortar could not have inflicted more despeate wounds. Another child has fallen a victim to the criminal practice of placing a washing-tub with scalding water on the ground. The victim in this case was seventeen months old, son of a farmer named Everett, at Inverleigh. He fell in head first, and died in Geelong Hospital about twentyfour hours afterwards.