INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XI, Issue 975, 11 September 1871, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

The licensed victuallers of Victoria have recommended to the Victorian Legislature that public-houses should be allowed to remain open within certain hours oh Sunday, and throughout the day to bon% fide travellers; that officers should he appointed by the . Government to see that $h& ..provisions i of the: i Act ' 'were :fully carried but ; that penalties should be inflicted on publicans selling , adulterated spirits, or of a streuthlesa than 20 per cent, under proof. It would be as well if some of the New Zealand publicans f ollowedtheir^eXample. >y : ' Subjoined are a few of the names of places that are mentioned in the Victorian Mining Surveyor's report : — Dead Horse (in two places), B)ack : Dog, Bull Dog, "Wild Dog) Pinchgiit, Magpie and Cobbler's One-eye, Kitty's, Two-to-One, Jerrejaw, Pickpocket,- Brandy-Hot, Belltopper, Mudlark, The Knobs, Black Clalf, Old Korn's, Silver Shilling, Seventy-foot, flaunty. Stream, Merrijig, Crinoline, Bog, Monkey Gully, Gobbler'n Gully, Sulky ?uHy> ifeowier'a Gullvf SnobYVGully, egleg Gully, Rag Gully, Boot's Gully, Good Friday, GuJJy, Hell's Hole,. Bottle Hflii'ftumbug Hill, Whisky llat, Rowdy Flat, f Fryingpan Flat,. FiddlerlsFlat, Jim . Thomas* dreek, Thunder and Lightning Creek, Sailor Bill's Creek, ■■ Starvation Greelc. s r ' • • •.■■■■".■• The Age of the 24th says :— "The adulteration of food is growing into a/ stereof typed phrase, expressive of what looks a great deal too like an indestructible, ,evjl, There is something abominable in the idea that this pollution of the elements of life ls^tovgo ion. It is a real skeleton in the tiosei * Iw avs with us, and with a Protean Apicfty^fof W^"* '"%*' sul £est &nd shapes: It w. lld not . be 3gSs"&l6o' B e rein to the amagihation •,„ Scribe it as an agency, always at work to j**sten buuian life . or render it more or l^\ miserable. It adds unquestionably *^A;e Bufferings of infancy. You may as against the horrors of war in the hope of establishing international peace, ' as inveigh against the tricks of trade with any prospect, of shaming the Yet, closely looked into, it may be doubted whether warirills" more people than do the .agents who live by corrupting the food and drink of the unsuspecting masses. The amount of capital and cf mental artifice which are devoted to this; evil wor*k ■ 'would, 'if it could be calculated, astonish the statistician. It would, however, tie monstrous to concede that it is one .of the " necessary" evils. We must still persevere, and that more strenuously than hitherto, with the business of eradication ; 'and if an improved machinery is wanted, or more cost is to be incurred, we ought to be content to provide them, v A few months ago, the Chief Justice of W,eßterniAustralia inflicted a fine: of LIOO on the editor of the Perth Gazette, forpublishing a letter sent to that journal by an attorney, who had previously been adjudged by bis Honor asguiltyof contempt of Court. A strong protest was made at the time to the Colonial Office on what was considered a very summary proceeding. By the last papers from that colony we learn that the fine has been remitted. ; t = A correspondent of a country journal in New South Wales, who signs himself "One of the Twelve," gives the following account of the manner in which the jury on a perjury case, recently tried at Toowoomba, were treated : — " For nearly 15 hours they were locked up with only a aperm candle, and a jug of cold water for refreshment, in a dreary draughty cell, on * bitter cold night, and no fire, and three men sworn in to prevent their friends or acquaintances providing them with warm plothing or personal comforts of any kind. When the morning sun shone out, they asked to be allowed to bask in its rays, hut were informed by -these keepers that ntch a proceeding could not be allowed. But what appears most strange of all to me is, that . the Chief Justice left the Court and made no provision for relieving the naughty men who couldn't agree, supposing they had come to a decision early in the night. A verdict would be more tfkely at ten o'clock than the next room? ing. If impartial verdicts are required — 'verdicts according to the evidence 1 — don't look Juries, up- albnigKt ; for the prospect of passing fifteen hours in company with a jug of pold water will. I am s.ure, induce most men to consider themselves absolved frpm their oath. If the jury were refractory, the jurymen's horses had done no wrong ; but they, too, were left for the space of twenty-fonr hours to feed op/posta and raiV' Surely: it is time {he law of juries which allows of occurrences like this wds amended. The alleged discovery' of Leichardt's relics is the subject of a letter to the Geehmj Advertiser from Dr Bunce, in which he says :~" As a fellow-traveller and companion of poor Leichardi until his nnal departure from Kosenthal, Darling, Pownsy for his' last' expedition,' it nia^ be readily imagined r that I^rfad "Andrew Hume's Statement in thi $ydmy • Morning Herald a considerable/ degree qf , interest, and am induced .to make a few

remarks. Shortly before starting on the present expedition, a tiqusin and countryman of jtb.e.dp^ifor arrived in tlie^ colony, as, VVailor, andy livf hi; as second, iiy. domnjand. v n His r name yraa" Classon^ and I believe' his Christian .name was -Lotus. In tKe event of anything occurring to Leichhardt^which was not at all improbable, seeing-that he was continually invalidated T-f-the command would devolve on Classon, ' a)id if -there is anything in Hume statement for the substitution of L. C. for the usual L. or occasional L. L. which distinguished Leichhardt's encampments, in the, event of burying any things, the place Would be distinguished with marks similar to those shown by Hume, L. C. With; the party was a singularly intelligent and gentlemanly fellow named Hentig, who informed me he had been residing with his. -brother, "who was^ a doctor, previous to his joining the party.. Under these circumstances he may have acquired a knowledge of medicine, and by; a similar parity of reasoning the solitary survivor may be poor Hentig. At tlie same time the expedition started Captain Macarthur was stationed at Port Esv»ington with a detachment of soldiers, but a short time subsequently the station was abandoned. The doctor always expressed his intention, in the event of not being able to penetrate to Western Australia 5 to -.fall back upon Port Essington. Epowing this, I drew the attention of the public to the circumstance through the columns of the Argus and Sydney Morning Herald. Nothing was done at the time, unfortunately. I say unfortunately, because, in all probability, the great sufferingj loss of life, and vast expenditure consequent on the Burke and Wills's evgantic failure might have been avoided. Afemale child "was born in Melbourne, onj^he 23rd ult. under s: M 3 what peculiar circumstances, the birth having taken place in a stable. At about 8 o'clock, a woman, who was found in the stable of a person named M'Mahon, in Byron street, off Chetwynd sreet, Hotham, was ordered out] and it was then found that she had recently given birth .to a female child. She left, taking with her her infant, whicha short time afterwards was found lying oh its face in the street, not far from' the stable. It was alive, and beings brought, under th%. notice of the. police, was sent to the Indusr trial , School. Subsequently, a doctor's prescription was found in a right-of-way near the place, and .the police, knowing the hand-writing, found the medical man,: whe stated that early in the morning a woman had been to him whom he advised to go at once to the Lying-in Hospital, as she was in the pains of labor. She denied being in that state and left, Jjut no doubt she was the mother of the childIt is complained that Borne storekeepers in Melbourne are so careless about attending to the closing of their places of business at night, that the police, when going their rounds, and trying the doors according to custom, frequently find a door yielding to a push, in consequence of its haying been merely pulled to, and not fastened. The constable cannot leave the place, after the discovery, as a thief would not be long in finding out the state of the case ,1 and while he is watohing this store, robberies may be taking place at other parts of his beak - The other night no less than four constables, on as many beats, were thus tied to individual stores which had not been locked up, and it has been suggested . that the owners should p a j* the constables' for thecare t aken 6 the premises aud stock. _ ' William Edward 3 (says the Welliugton correspondent of the Dvhho Dispatch) has been brought before the Bench on a charge of • robbing, whilst armed, a young man named George Baker. The circumstances under which the offence was committed were thus stated by Baker ;— He was sent by his employers (Campbell and Edmonds son, storekeepers,! Burrandong,) on 23rd ultimo, with about 460g gold, to be deliyered to the police at Stony Creek, for conveyance by escort to Sydney. He left B.urrandong shortly after 2p. m. , and rode, in company with a son of Mr Edmondson,. about sixteen miles, when, as he turned a bend in the road round the spur of a ridge, he suddenly came upon a man who was riding a bay horse, and who presented at him a double-barrel gun, capped. The man had a large piece of print fastened at his waist and covering his breast, face, head and hat; and the man shouted, "Stop gold." Witness pulled up, and said he had no gold. The bushranger said, " No— — nonsense, or I'll blow your brains out ; dismount." Witness did dismount, and, on the order of the bushranger, put the gold on the road, and also at his order, rode back, the bushranger following about forty yards. Witness, on getting out of sight of the bushranger, rode as fast as he could to his employers and told them. He noticed that the horse ridden by the bushranger had a white hind foot. The horse had quick action. The horse in possession of the police, and now outside the Court, was very similar to the one ridden by the man who stuck up witness. The gun is very similar to the one the bushranger had ; believed: it was the same.. The piece of print shown witness (and which was found by the police at the residence of the prisoner), was the sapie as that which masked the robber. Prisoner was remanded. '