INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1130, 12 March 1872, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Mr Campbell Smith, blacksmith, of Stanley, when returning from Myrtleford Races, ran against a tree, and was killed. A fire took place at North Williams* town, which destroyed a two-roomed cottage, occupied by an aged couple named Flatman. The schooner Ellen parted her cables and went on the rooks at Eden, Twofold Bay. The vessel has become a total wreck. TheMudgee mail was stuck up near Chenytree, and the passengers ana mails were robbed. The police are on the track of two men suspected of the robbery. A great fixe has occurred at Inglewood. Several houses were burned down, including the Shamrock and Empire States HoteL The damage is estimated at LBOOO. The five-mile foot-raoe between F» Hewitt and Young Bedford will take place on Saturday, 16th March, and in all probability on the M.O.C. ground. Other races will be got up, and the occasion will taken advantage of to have a good afternoon's sport. Shortly after two o'clock on Saturday morning, 24th instant, a fire broke out in a small three-roomed wooden house in Little Byron street, off Errol street, Hotham, belonging to and occupied by Mrs Mary Brodie. The building and contents were totally destroyed, only a few articles of wearing apparel being got out. The dead body of a man was found floating in the Yarra, between the Botanical Gardens bridge and the Punt road,

on the 22nd ult., by a^an named Andrew Olden, living in Dover street, Richmond. It was identified as that ot "William James Morgan, aged 28 years, a draper, in the employ of Mr Andrews, of lonsdale street west. ' ' Commissioner Sharkey has returned from Normanby, and reports favorably on the place, especially for reefing Purposes. Tough Brothers, of Ravenswood, have promised to erect a machine on the ground within two months. There are at present over 500 men at work. Mr Sharkey will return and lay out the town*h A charee of infanticide was preferred at the Ararat Circuit Court against a young girl of seventeen, named Mary Wilson, mother of the murdered child. The evidence was to the effect that the child was born alive, and that its death was caused by strangulation. The Chief Justice put the case to the jury that it was either one of murder or concealment of birth, discarding altogether the concealment of birth, discarding altogether the alternative of manslaughter. The jury found the prisoner guilty of the minor count of concealment, and she ■was sentenced to two years' imprisonment. ■ . _ A fatal accident occurred m Lygon street, Carlton. William Brown, a cabman, was sitting on the footboard, his cab being full of passengers, when he lashed his horse, which became restive,. and got a leg over one of the shafts, and Brown was thrown off the cab, the wheels of j which passed over his body. He was taken to the Melbourne Hospital, where I he died at a quarter to eight. The cause of death is supposed to have been an mjnry to the spine and general internal injuries. The deceased lived in Rathdowne street, Carlton. The purchasers of the wreck of the Sussex are likely, according to the Qeelong Advertisei, to make a good thing of the transaction :— " It was thought that a week or a fortnight ago that as about half the goods had been saved from the Susex, much greater diffiaulty would be experienced in getting out the balance, it being sotfow down m the body of the ship. This, if we may judge by the quantity of ris saved on Tuesday, is not likely to the case, as 25 tons of merchandise •were landed on the beach in a very short space of time. The original cargo was ♦valued at L 44,000, and many of the shareholders believe that, taking the high 'prices goods are fetching into consideration, they will make LI 000 profit on their bargain. The purchasers of tho_ Loch Leven made, it is said, LIOOO per man. and if the purchasers of the Sussex do the Bame, we should imagine that agents will not be so anxious in the future to sell a comfortably wrecked vessel in so hasly a manner." A case of almost incredible brutality on the part of a parent is thus referred to by the M. A. Mail :-—" Some i :o -. weeks ago we referred to. the case o2 child being brought into the hospital with both of its arms and one of its legs broLdn — one of its parents being named as tho party who so cruelly maimed the ' • creature. Frcn: Inquiries made sii m that in the early part of this tnon .j, the baby was discharged from the hospital, the resident surgeon having, as far as possible, ■ succeeded in putting together the broken limbs, when the mother, who stayed in . the institution most of the time, took it home to Taradale." An awfully sudden death occurred at Williamstown. Mr Henry Edward Broydon, a letter-carrier in the Post Office Department, was talcing his dinner.at the Stag's Head Hotel between one and two o'clock, apparently in his usual health, when he suddenly placed his hands oil his forehead and complained of being ill. . *He was removed to an adjoining room, and as he continued to get worse it was considered advisable to send for medical assistance. Mr Maclean was sooirin attendance, and pronounced it to be an ' attack of serous apopjexy, and although every effort was made to save him, the • unfortunate man sank and died within .half an hour of the time he was taken ill. • IMr Broydon, who was about GO years of age, had been stationed at Williamstown ' since April last, previous to which he had been eight or nine years in the Melbourne Post Office.