INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1123, 4 March 1872, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

The Inglis Bcandal is to be referred to | the Presbyterian Assembly of Victoria. Mr Anthony Trollope, accompanied by Mr Rusden, is on a visit to Gipps Land. Moore, the horse-Btealer, has succeeded in making his escape from the lock-up at Forbes. L The mining mania, is increasing, and about 20 hew companies have been formed i at Tambavoora. i A number of English residents at Levuka have requisitioned. Mr Burt.to resign his seat. - ■ ' The Rev. Mr Gunti, late of Greenockj j died suddenly at Sydney, after landing from a voyage. Mr Manning, a young Sydney barris- j ter, recently appointed Attorney-General, has been drowned near Levuka. Spurious half-crowns have been very numerous of late, but the detectives have succeeded in arresting three comers, and securing their committal. Boehrn, charged with, the murder' of Guerin, at Paradise, has been found guilty of manslaughter, and sentenced to two years' hard labor. Captain Markham, who commanded H.M.S. Rosario during her recent cruise to the South Seas, has left for England via California. . A very sudden death occurred in Hotham. Mrs Reddish, wife of a pawnbroker, in Errol-street, was dressing, when, with but few premonitory symptoms of death, she fell down dead. < The tin deposits in the northern districts are attracting attention. The Elsmore Tin-mining Company, with a | capital of L 60,000 was floated in the course of two hours. The Australian spiritests are said to have made a sum of money by subscripI tion for the purpose of paying the expenses of a visit of Mr Peebles, ■ of American spiriteat notoriety, to Australia. "It is proposed," we learn from the Bendigo Advertiser^ ■" to establish anew gas. company at Sandhurst.. The object of the new company is to supply the, cityof Sandhurst with gas at cheap rates, and to break the monopoly exercised by the Bendigo Gas Company. The Bendigo Independent states that in that district there is as much destitution, if not considerably m<>re } than in any other district in the colony. This is owing to the enormous increase of the population which has taken place within the last twelve months. A new reeling country, many miles in extant, has been discovered about 100 miles from Townsville, and it is reported as being very rich. Lumps of quartz, richly impregnated with gold, have been lodged in the bank. More than IOC prospecting claims have been taken up. The place is named "Charles Towers. }: A rush is anticipated. Toorak, which has for so many yean .held tip its head as being the fashionable neighborhood, will soon lose its prestige, inasmuch as it will be robbed of the halo of vice-royalty that has so long surrounded it. The Ministry have determined to proceed with the erection of a Government House on a reserve neai Prince's bridge, Melbourne. There is news for Melbourne bachelors. Ifc is proposed to start, privately, a fund for sending to Australia a couple of hundred repentant Magdalenes from the vicinity of the Haymarket, Strand, and similar thoronghfares. The idea is kindly meant, but 1 it is doubtful whether the colonists will feel much flattered by ifc. A sad accident occurred on 20th Feb., -by which two boys, named Robert Campbel] (aged 14) and Thomas Smith (aged 17), lost their lives. Tho boys went out in the early part of the day to the Yarra to fish, and between one and nine o'clock, when" they were near what is kuowtv as the Bullock Run, about a mile and a hall down the river from the wharves, Campbell stripped, and went into the river tc bathe. He got out of his depth and was drowning, when Smith pulled off part of his clothing and plunged in to the rescue; bn? both .then sunk and were drowned,.. The Ballarat Star reports that " a scientific gentleman 'in Ballarat has been experimenting upon various silicas and clays, with a view to test the practicability of manufacturing a good porcelain ware in Victoria. These experiments have been very successful, and he expects to have some samples of good 'biscuit' ready for public exhibition before long. He says that good clay exists near Ballaratj but that a mixture of various clays and silicas, including Bulk Bulla kaolin, will be desirable. The projector of the pottery is of opinion that, a site near Melbourne will be desirable. "J Another fatal accident occurred oh the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railwayline on the 19th between Melbourne and Richmond. Robert Cox, stoker on the engine drawing the five O'clock train.from the Windsor station to Melbourne, when between the Richmond station and Jolimont, saw a man standing on the line in front, and before he could pull up the engine-buffer' struck' the man and knocked him down across the line. The guardiron struck the man then and threw him off the line. Cox reported the occurrence to the station -master at Flinders street, who, with . Constable . Sherwood, went to ! the spot, where he found the man lying ( quite dead, about six yards from the rails. ...His forehead was deeply indented and one arm was apparently broken. The body was not identified. There exist and flourish at the present time no less than ten banks of issue in Melbourne, and most of these have i branches riot only in the provinces, but also in most of the suburbs. Yet still another banking institution has been projected, under the title of the "City and Provincial Bank," the prospectus of which has been privately, circulated. The head-office in the first instance is to be at Collingwood, to be subsequently removed to Melbourne, upon the institution becoming firmly established. The projectors start with an altogether new principle of allowing depositors whose accounts have not fallen below LSO during the year, to participate in the surplus profits, after providing for a return of six per .cent, to the shareholders. The institution is designed to advauce small cash credits on the Scotch principle, and to assist manufactures, «&c, established on the co-operative system. It is proposed to commence operations as soon as L10.000.0f subscribed capital shall have been taken up. At the present time, however, the whole thing is in embryo, and has only been privately mooted. The Rockanvpton Bulletin of the> 3rd February says ':— " On Wednesday last; a fisherman named Easton discovered an alligator's nest on the 1 Eighteen-Mile jslaric[. .The mother was in tho'n!cst whtm

Saston made the discovery, but she ran •ff, 'bellowing like a cow after her :alf,' as Easton fired a shot from his iouble-barrelled gun into the river. She vas about 9ft long. As Easton went up to the nest, a large snake was about to enter it, but the snake fted. On examining the nest, Easton. discovered sixtyseven eggs, which h<j took away. After 'caving a few of the eggs in town, he shipped the others to Sydney per Egmont. Mr Easton has also placed four eggs under a hen, and twelve in straw, in the hope ' nf rearing and domesticating some young alligators. Cramp has sent his young live alligator to Sydney per Egmont." The news has been received by ♦ho last mail of the death of Sir Edward Mac- ■ arthur, X.C.8., formerly Commander-in-Chief of H.M. forces in Australia, and for a brief period Governor of Victoria. Sir Edward entered the army, in l§oß, and served through the Peninsular war, being at.the battles of Corunna, Vittoria,Orthez, Toulouse, "the Pyrenees, and others. In 1851, he came nit to these colonies as Deputy-Adjutant-General, and in 1855 he obtained the command of the" forces as Major-General. After the death of SirCharles Hutham, General Macarthnr was Acting-Governor for a year, until ;the i arrival of Sir Henry Barkly. He was i married in the year .1862, and must have been close on ninety years of age at the time of his death. , One of those disgraceful exhibitions to which the colony has happily been a Btranger for some years past—a prize fight— was brought to an issue on Saturday, i7th,February, in the neighborhood of Geelong. The principals are known amongst their intimates as Abe Hicken and Dave Ingram. The fight was commenced at early morning at St. Alban'n, three miles from Geelong, but after three rounds the police stopped it, but failed to arrest the principals for a breach of the peace, as they certainly should have done. The party consisting o£ sixty or seventy individuals travelled to Geelong, and application was made to Mr Cadwaller, the Geelong station master, for a special train, which it was said was to convey a party of ladies and gentlemen to a picnic. The station master however suspecting tjfc move declined to grant the request' made, ' and passages were taken by the eleven o'clock luggage, train, the;party being deposited two miles the "other side of the Moorabool viaduct, where, after two hours' hard fighting, Ingram gave in. The money on the event was, it is said. £400. : . '. With reference to the Ballarat swindler, Morton, the Police Gazette supplies i the following information :— " Edwd. Morton is charged, on warrant, with larceny as a bailie, at Ballarat. The offender hired a ' quantity of furniture to furnish the Sta«and Hounds Hotel, Ballarat, from RichdT Draper, which he sold for Llls, on the 30th ultimo, and left Ballarat on the Ist instant supposed for Sydney or New Zealand ; a letter was received in Ballarat from him, dated Melbourne, February 6, 1872: Description :— About thirty-five years of age, sft BMn high, Irish, full eyes which droop at the outside corners, wears spectacles,, speaks with a Limerick accent. Arrived from New Zealand last November, when he stated he was'employed by the Imperial Government as a surveyor, and that he had applied to the Victorian Government for a similar situation. He is believed to be accompanied by his wife, a tali .rather, thin woman, dressed in Jong dark waterproof cloaK and light> bonnet ; had with her a little boy about six years of age." For some time past there have been rumors about an action for divorce pending in Melbourne. The Melbourne correspondent of the Hamilton Spectator writes as follows —" Talking of law,. I may allude to a ' great scandal,' in which the cat was very nearly out of the 'lag. It was not: a case to which any previous allusion had been made in the newspapers. The lawyers had been busy upon the tnatter, and everything was ready for submission to his Honor Judge Molesworth at the next sittings of the » Supreme Court in divorce. The parties all move, in the higher, circles, and if the name of the cb-respondenthad come out, it would not have lessened the piquancy of the case, for he is a gentleman who affects not a little piety, and is most consistent in the out-door observances of a Christian life— a model of propriety in the matter of Sunday schools. But th^ lawyers were judioious. * Prudence w?w the watch word,only.' But as the damage* to be paid before the case was withdrawn were assessed at L2OOO. it will be inferred that the case was of rather a serious character."- ; : .