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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1163, 20 April 1872, Page 2

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[per greville's telegraph company, - •- ,'- reuter's agents;] Bluff, April 19. The Gothenburg arrived at eight o'clock this morning. She left Melbourne on the 13th, and sails for Dunedin to-night. Passengers.— Mr Gafleck, Mr Cook, Mr Stephens, Captain Gumming and son, Mr and Mrs Hart, Mr C. Berghoff, Mr David Strang, Mr Hounsell, Mr Thomson, Mrs Henderson and child. Mrs Symons ancl two children ; steerage, 22. Melbourne, April 13. Breadstuff's very firm. Flour, Ll4 los to Llo. Wheat, still rising, 6s 4d being paid for second rate samples, and 6s 6d refused for prime. Oats, 3s 5d- to 3s 6d. Sydney, April 13. Mr Adams, of Wyeralla station,- has been found drowned in the Richmond River with a bullock chain round his neck, and a heavy weight attached. The Tararua has arrived at Newcastle from the Gulf of Carpentaria. There are rumors of a monster nugget being found at Bowling Alley Point. ' Adelaide, April 13. The Government advertise that they will receive, worn, out coin for three months. , : .- . , ■'/■ ■. '; Discount, five per cent. Wheat, 5s Bd. Flour, Ll2 10s to Ll3. Hares are multiplying fast in the Beechworth district. '. ' " . Keaa has been sentenced to death at Yass for attempted murder, ; '.'.*' „ Nicholls and Lester's trial for. the Parrauiatta murders commences on : May 15. Over 9000 shares have been applied for in Melbourne in ; the Queensland Bank. The Sydney banks have, commenced to pay 1 per cent, premium for silver con. Arthur George Scott has been remanded to Melbourne for the 'Egert6n gold rob? bery. : y\/ ' A man named Burke has been killed at Kadina, South Australia, by another man named Gharlton, during a drunken brawl. The members of the New Guinea Search Expedition have presented a handsome testimonial to Lieutenant Gowland, .R.N., who was in command. .A large quantity, of Sydney oysters waslately .placed in Stingaree Bay >by the Great Eastern Oyster Company. An examination showed that the oysters pre--viously laid down were doing very: well. The Southern Cross on her last trip to I Melbourne from Hobart Town • had on board a . peculiar ; package en route for England. When Isle of France whaler was cruising off 'the Australian coast, a portion of what seemed the body of a

-*• ' 0J :■" t '**f I'- '' ' ;snake was picKefl up.- It 'looked -as if it plunged to ttie 1 :- tail andvi pa^t' of the ijißbdy, and measured' some ;15ft in -lengths been hatfdedto Efr Orityther *rn\ Hobart Town, that gentleman has sent it to the conservator of the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons, and by-and-»bye, we shall, heai'umqre about itj^ls itra' portion of the old sea serpent ? < :. At the Ballarat; Hpapital lately an infant named Michael M'Carthy died -from* the effects of ■poisoning^by-'Opiunr' contained in some; rnix.Jturejt4coiden{ally administered to him by his sister Jobsuna McCarthy, a girl seven years of agtf. The body found hanging to the lim> of a tree at Five-Mile Creek, near Sandhurst, has been identified as that of Henry Collins,' a man 53 years of [age,-, who left his home on Saturday, March' 23, evidently with the intention of o'om-. mitting.suicide. v : :.:■■' \ . A melancholy and fatal accident (says the Chronicle) occurred near Jamieson ou Mon day evening, April 1 . Mr Abraham Parkinson, a very highly respected resident of the district, left Jamiespn! on horseback at dusk, and when wijthin abqufr 200 yards of his house was thrjown; from his horse and, killed almost instantaneously. Mr Parkinson , was an old colonist of 23 years standing! I " A day or two ago," the Mail reports"; " Sergeant* Watson,' of Chewton, found lying in the bush/in a r state of ;i nudif;y, a man named Ferron, and after whom Fer-ron's-Reef, -at Fryers, is named. JThe lunacy of the man is occasioned by alcoholic iridulgerace. Ferron for four suc.cessiye years r had an income of L4O; per week, so lie "says, and he was quite equal' to 'knocking*!; .down,' and getting into debt besides. He was brought before the. JLocpl justices, and', remanded to! the temporary asylum for the brain diseased, at the district hospital." '''".. With reference to the late fire at' Mr Hugh Cavanagh's, ■. Wangaratta, the Ad-' wrtiser hears that "the Northern Assurance Company will- not' pay the claim on the policy; issued by them for L2OOO on" goods on the ground that one of, the fun' damental conditions of the policy was. not complied with. condition ailuded'' to. is as follows :— <F lf property, insured by the company' shall pass 6y -'death, assignment, or otherwise into other hands,the interest in the policy may be ( preserved, provided the transfer be previously allowed at the office by endorse' ment on the policy.' This matter was overlooked by Mr Ca*vaiiagh!'V , ; The canoe trip^ down the JVturray to Adelaide, "on i which^^Messrs^^ Qair and '." Clarke started so me days backj' has come to rather an untimely end, through an" accident which befell the latter gentleman.. In search of sport, he ventured to rest his-' weight on whjit appeared tq be tl^e stem 'of a fallen tree ] it turned out) Kow'ever, to be only a loose log stretching over the bank. He was consequently upset, and fell from a height of , .about . 12f J,^thereby causing a severe iu jury ito his shoulder.. They had paddled about 400 miles, and were sanguine of reaching, Adelaide earlier, than they' expected- at the butsetf of the trip. Owing, to the, mishap, they were compelled to" retuan to Swan Hill, and' oomeback-to Melbourne overland, the" s,tate of . Mr Clarke's shoulder quite precluding the possibility of his paddling any further. ■- A horrible case of alleged .malpractice on the part of a medical man named William H. J.ackaon is reported from the Western district. ;: Mr Jackson being called in to attend a Mrs Petering whilst i^ labor, performed the operation of cra^niotomy, the instruments he used joeing a ; carpenter's auger, chisel, and a; hoot made of fencing wire. The body of the. child after birth" appears to have been subject to the most' indecent treatment be- -. fore burial. A few days after ifchadbeen buried it was disinterred and an inquest held upon it. At the inquest, the medical testimony was to. the effect that the operation was quite unnecessary, and Mr Jackson was committed to take his" trial for manslaughter; In summing up, the coroner said that " in the whole course of his experience he -had never met with;. a case so horrible andbrutal." InW-letter to the local paper Mr Jackson defends his conduct, and says that the emergency of the case justified his action,. It would seem that one "■of the Parramatta murderers, Bobert Nicholls,. was at one time a Tasmaniari visitor. Arriving in Hobart Town/ he stole hydro \ meter, and then betook himself to .Laun- ' cestoh. Here he made; himself notorious as a disposer of cheap rum in wood, the spirit being confined to a tube immedi* ately under the bung-hole, and sufficient for, sampling purposes, the other contents of the cask being water. A photograph sent from Hobart Town revealed to the Superintendent of Police that the rum impostor was the person " wanted " in-Hobart Town for making free with the hydrometer. But when he" got there, still more important warrants were but against him from Sydney/ and to that city he was sent, and there convicted on several charges of forgery and of obtaining goods on false pretences. The sentences must have been never carried out, as it is not much more than two years since Nicholls was apprehended '■■ in Launceston. For such crimes the punishment seems to be ridiculous. . ; -