INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1072, 4 January 1872, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

< An attorney has been admitted to practice at Victoria, rejoicing in the following name :— Polling Hugh Gough PigottStain sby-Ooyit. Students™ psychics might find something to ponder over in the investigation of cause and effect if they were to institute a minute inquiiy into the facts of a case which came before the St. Kilda Bench. A man named James Ferme was bound over to keep the peace at the suit of his wife. The couple have been married for forty years. Jn town, people boivow your umbrella ; in the country, they go a step beyond that point. The following advertisement from the Avoca Mail shows an advanced phase of the disease : — " Notice. — In ! order to prevent disappointment, the undersigned begs to inform his friends and the public generally that he has sold his buggy ; consequently, to borrow it is iraposabJe. Horse in full work.— Alex. Melville." The first man ever flogged in the Ballarat Gaol was Ah Chew, a Chinese, convicted of an unnatural offence, who was punished on the 20th ult. The Chinese, says the Evening Mail, walked curiously, but not fearfully to to the place of punishment, and quietly submitted to the executioner. The first blow was evidently a surprise to him, the second evoked a yell, and at the eighth or ninth the maximum amount of suffering seemed to be endured. Blood was not drawn throughout, but at the conclusion of the twenty-five lashes the unfortunate wretch's back presented a fearful appearance. THe practice of miners " selling reef gold" is obtaining attention at Sandhurst, and it is hinted in the Advertiser that the said gold is stolen from the mines. A " miner " puts this question : "It must be quite plain that ii a man dresses fashionably, carries a gold repeater in his pocket, and smokes cigars, that he must have an income to support it; it must be something more than the rate of wages paid to miners in general. But such is the case in Sandhurst. There •are men here who live and dress in tipTop style on L 2 5s per week. How is it done ? I should Jike to get a leaf out of their book." It would appear from the career of «£harlea Edwards, a man who was convicted at the criminal sessions, Mel* bourne, of stealing cattle, and who pleaded guilty to two other charges of stealing a horse, and a saddle and bridle, that he was born to spend a considerable portion of his life in gaol. He commenced a criminal career in Victoria in 1859, and has since then been very familiarly acquainted, with the inside of Pentridge Stockade. He was liberated from that institution on the 7th October last, and between that and the 14th of the same, month laid himself open to no less than* five separate charges of felony. A desperate criminal was hanged at Maithmd last month, in the person of the man Michael Mannion, alias M'Mahon, • convicted of the murder of WMiam Jones, at Haslem Creek. He was transported from Ireland in 1837, for robbing hia master, and since that time, for a peiiod of thirty-four years, he has been, with little intermission, an offender against the laws of hia counti/. Some conception may be formed of the perpetual punishment the wretched man has brought upon .himself when we state that he has received nearly two thousand lashes during this i: period. His last words were:—-" I forgive all the world. Gloiy be to God ! and I'm , going to make atonement for all' my sins. I served my first term in irons." h ,; Captain Riogeau, of the French barque Aracin, sued Mr J. F. Lincker, the ship- , broker,, in ; the~County Court, Melbourne, for damages for malicious arrea* and pro- . secution. It appeared that in September last the' defendant brought an action against the tplaiutift io recover a sum of' money as commission for obtaining a charter p^aity for his vessel at' the end of the previous year, and got out a writ of ca. se. against him, upon which he was t wrested and held to bail in the amount ofLCO, |t was in consequence of this proceeding that the plaintiff brought the prssent action, as it was not he that entered into the negotiation with regard to- the charter party. ■ but the former master of the vessel, who was taken ill at Calcutta, and left behind there, while Captain Riogeau brought on the vessel to Melbourne. It was contended on behalf of the defendant that the present action could not lie until the suit for the recovery of the commission money b,ad been, decided; and his Honor Judge Cope, holding the objection to be good, gave a .verdict for the defendant.

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