INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1168, 26 April 1872, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

! Aii English, company has purchased t|ief Fitzroy iron mines for a sum .of 'L6O,O(XJ.-*-I The Kate Kearney, from Torres Straits, has brought to Sydney 38 tons of superior pearl shells. ; :_i'-- .;■" * \ The French war steamer Ranee has put }n at Sydney, for impairs to her machinery;- '•■""'•■' v-^> ■ .■>.■:-' .• -t;'V*v Therprospects of the old Burra mineare* improving. >^. ..-...- . ; » . Mr P. W. T.' Main, from Victoria, has initiated steps for the preservation of the ( South Australian oyster beds.. ' f I , A disputed bet ; of LSOO on the Mel-t bou'rne'Oup was: decided, against- Mtß;. Thompson, the bookmaker. : Mr TaitYTitania has been withdrawn from the turf for the stud. Petitions, have been forwarded to the Roman : Catholic Archbishop in \ Sydney, praying for the reinstatemenVbi Fathers' Hqran jind Npwlan v .. . , ;U , ; . ..,. r ' At' the inquest* bri Tones,' f ounff'dr6ivn§ti; in Sydney harbor, the, jury returned m open verdict. " lV^- '" •.": ' ''"' ,The,, Alice, .Bajl,- jirpm; ■ New: iYork; ; to> Sydney, brings 13,000 cases kerosene and 28 packages tobacco;- .;■ j-i : >,\ . Captain Tucker, sen., of the Margaret Jauey has been: committed; for, abandoning the paripw.ner.of the, vessel,. at y jbhje. New Hebrides.' ■-•'-■■•■'■ ■ ;- : < ■>■■-■;■'>■.—*> ' .The Simpnsens , have broken up the .Opera Troupe^ atid left for'CalifOf nia;' ".' Murphy has teen committed for trial' for themurderbf his wife atCathcart.'- --; The whalerEorwardiias put into Broken? Bay, and ■reports:, the : Waterwitch :. with.; inine tuna, Runny inede with 60 .tuns, and, ;Isle..pf France with 35 tuns. . ' . . \ The City: of Bfobart has v returned port with ~a 'portion 'of her machinery broken. " A challenge from^ Wills, Cosstick, and •Con way, to play : five--South Australian cricketers on the Queen's Birthday, has /been declined, there not being a suitable ground- yet '-^"^ ■ '^i VL'^i'MH iformatipn from, "a trustworthy source" to . the^effect tMt'the "South Wstrfiliatit;G'b^ vernment have resolved to carry out the presentibill : for the construction of a line, of railway from Lacipede Bay director Najracpprte., 'Edmund Itowan^farmfer, of Hopkins^ and Thomas O'Mara, of Koroit, both old residents,/ have met -with, fatal, accidents fronk .beHig«J^.r.Q}^n,J^m'^^r^orses.. Concussion of the brain was" th^iminer diate cause of deatHah^both cases.

,In the Hamilton Spectator^ is reported, a' case of wife 1 desertion of a- 'more I fpan v sually disgraceful, kind . . , , " A man named Henry Bland'left his ; wife at Louth Swamp -. iitimediately > "after 4her fionfinement, going off. .with, her sister, a girl of 18. He was' arrested^ and'taken before the Hawilton Bench; and ordered to pay 30s; a ; wjeek towards, his ;wifp'B ; maintenance. -,■.'•«;'■»;-■'■,.<■■, ■,•■".. >r The Redbank 'sheep station, Queensland, has been sold -by auction at 7s a head. • :^ :; ;: ■ re : --*' zyiii»<'\. ■■ Mr Ward has obtained, leaye to. intrp; duce a bill to repeal the GoVernors-Salary Augmentation Act.. , ..\. , , .; S-;T;---48&, 782 "acres 'of laid; 'were 'selected tinder the credit system -during the last three years, averaging- LI ; lls lid per acre.,< ;| : ;»- ; - yjn ':;.; a-s .-• ; ■>/" q.;s ?. Materials for the manufacture of crystalised carbonate' bf-soda' have'been found in large quantifies. „..", Letters frbm the'n6rthern'ciistriiits state flwt^roifglitirfear.ed.'"'* — ■^~^»**~-"~ Richard Crossing,-; reported as having committed suicide at Wanganui, has left a large, amount of property; which he settled on his ,wife before;he abscondejf. A reward of LIOO was offered by Government for his arrest. ( . f A telegram from Adelaide gives us the official-TOturns ■ 6i the South Aiistralian wheat crop. From 692,508 acres the total yield was 3,967,679 bushels, or an average of 5 bushels 441 b per acre, .-irv A ball r was given oh board the -Russian war ste'artier Izoumroud, : at which -a considerable number of gnests'were presentThe "entertainment was given by Captain Cbmnanyand his officers, in recogni^p*n of the hospitality, they have enjoyedauring their stay in the port of Melbourne. We learn from Launcestpn papers that a telegram has been received at Hobart Town from Captain Audley Coote, in London, dated, , March ,11, .stating ; that; the contract for the Tasmanian line of. railway has been v signed, and that .the engineers, himself, and the contractors were about to leave for Tasmania. . >' " A prizoifight," the Ballaarat Cowj^r understands, "came off on Friday betwe^ja two miners near Craig's farm on the Creswick road.. The 'miU' lasted abputan hour and Vjialf,- and one of the .combatants,,bearing mark's' and tokens. of very "severe punishment, ' was* removed ,'. in a. bu.tcheii's cart, , a description, of .vehicle "that was'SFery appropriately, Vand v "with ipmejoresight^proyided beforehatKl:" " The JBdllnayat reports r that i ' rr tFe wife of Mr^omf Stephens- -of jWKim Holes, i has disappeared, and that nothing can be heaMof her.' She" left her -home at Whim Holes on Wednesday, 3rd April, and was last seen; at Napoleon, in the Sonsof;Fre.edom Hotel. It is stated that she was suffering from. heart disease."- „ f> . : A lamentable accident is reported by . the Ballarat Star as having occurred on Saturday, afternoon, at. Scarsdale, tola .former named Patrick^ £ahey, or Laffey, a resident of Wihddrmere. s He was deliver- i ing a load of straw to Mr S. Year, Scarsdale, and Avhen on the top of the load pulling but a bundle, .the string broke*and. he overbalanced and fell to Sic ground, coming down on the back of his neck on the wooden platform in front of the build- 1 ;ing; His injuries are' believed to be 6f. a; fatal character. ' ' 'i From ; a telegram in the Ovens aiid Miir-i, M%.Mvcrtisery we karn that at tlie Albury^ Criminal Sessions?' Carl' "!Eibel, v " "cliatged' with an attempt to miiVdera whole family ; by administering poison in. a cask of winej conveyed by him to a neighbor's hqusie,! for U3e at a birthday feast, was fbu fid' guilty, and sentenced to death. The jury; i recommended, the prisoner to mercy. ! The Queensland Parliament was openedj ; by his Excellency the Marquis of Nor-] < man by. The principal announcements hi t the Governor's speech are that the Go-' i vernment intends' to ask for authority to <

open < communication with a company, for laying anplthjf^cable from Batavia to the Aiistraliuvnis^ntinent on guaranteed interest, a project in which the assistance of the other colonies is hoped for ; that the establishment of a postal route via JiaJ^yla^is^i^ expedition istb be sjehFto report npdnf the ' ~ mineral resource* of , the rolppy iiorthwani from Cardwell, Mr Daintree has been -appointed^aoienfegeneraLiorJiie^^lonjKin^ London, subject to .the. apigroval of Parliament. -" ■'' '■■;■&'■-&' i From later MaurUius^papers received" at Melbourne by.-^ppp;||^W[ue Thomas Brown, we have^araoj&^^Jof the storm which visited thatasTftnilwthe 15th Feb., and its effects upon.the sugar The. Opmmerdiai Gcmiiaoi, 4&'snicbjfi Says. :^-'f The cyclone very^ncar.t, this- island, Vrit ;-< not near;, enough; td^p- ! any damage worth noticing eUher r in'tdwn or in country. . The;snipping"in,'.9u,r harbor also escaped without damageV^o]b'i ( bV however, several vessels atsea;which ! Have ?0 since put in here with 'damager^Those which most suffered were the William^ Fairbairri and Piqlp ReVellbj both bound to Bombay, and the Staffordshire!^-ThS last vessel "experienced .■ serious^hxjury. The other vessels that felt the cyclone" more or 'less were Gefle, 'Oleander, Ivanhoe Misser, Gryie, Marpesia, and Odalisk; The plantations have, not materially suffered; 'all that'can be"aaid is that"they have i^b'een;; somewhat , retarded!; ;;.'F.6rta- :> " nately, we haye'had f^^uefat 'rains-in^ most plaijt ia nbw. ra^idly^^reco'vgi^g^ ;^ ? ;^ { '^ , ) ■ A-, strange r discovery 5 * Has : been reported,' ; jto the Ovetis and Murray AdvertiseKbyi&r boerespondent :— "The- men working on the railway line / at 'a short .distance tcowi theJSenalla bridgeY^hUßeutftng trough a iitlle eminence Dptw^en'six aiid eight feet, found a : rev6lver, and on examining it : . discovered Jhat it , was. .c^ed ..and loaded. The stocky whicii^as^of^w^odd^ crumbled away on being exposed to the ; aiiv;but theicap an^ the^bulleta were in a T perfectly >c»und state...' .in^ttjument v was silver mioiihted, arid'when rubbed the silver was ..as bright aqd ; ,clearj w as,^f, only, recently^pi&pn. (5 - 'Ij;^ jis^about^lOin' lorig," andappeared to'be' extremely well finished. It,was^ound;rat ja distance -of tfffe from the .-surfacepand; where7 S ih©,jjro]un^ was almost as hard as a rock, jjow,,^ came there is an inexplicable xas^^a^ and has astomsh(ad|reyje^uone whssEs heard of the di^ye^^Pjie revolver, or" pistol, as it sh6.ulEJfe:^iie.(3, was found npt far. frpm.whare-the massacre of ful'snien took place by ; tfie' ttfacfcY sprafe' 35 years >agp .5 but f it appearsjbhat these unfortunate men who were .murdered, or their companions who escapedVhad neither pistols br're'volvers with tbteWkfc the time thatitheidisastrpus sacrifice of human life ; took place." :;/-<•; '-""""'

We learn from iCap'tain; Street, whose return from the. Roper,- River was mentioned in the Argus.. lately 'in connection with the cruise ofUthev&JsaTararua, that there is every probability of messages, being received from -Europe. : by the, connection, of the overland' telegraph.^ftpm Port Darwin to Port Augusta by means of a h.^rse/,express,.in ( thft;course of; the next" six "weeks/'Gaptain Sweet estimates the gap separating, the j' two ends of the wire, which is b^twee^lhe^Catherine and Newcastle Wate^^^||s^^n 150 miles, a distance which-pould; easily be bridged, by horses itf^th'ree' t Hr fdurC.aays.^ fT^Bdry season, which lasts unta'^ecember; having^noW fairly set<mi > MrcT6cld anticipates th«t ? the Lwork* will^ proceed; gapidly v without further interruption. {J?h'e Roper is described- as , a fine river,-three-quarters of a |mile wide at j^fcouth, resemblingthe Brisbane'riy,er. ! It wasf ound tpbe navigable for Smiles by Vessels "drawing 15ft of; wateti - .':Tlie stream is fringed with mangrove swamps at its mouth, but higher up/ beautiful paiikrjike lands extend along -its banks for many miles. Captain Sweei has prepareda repdf t- for . the South" Australian Goveriiriiont; j A