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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1217, 22 June 1872, Page 3

Ah Wah. the Chinaman charged with cutting and wounding' a countryman at Beechworth in a brutal manner, has been committed for trial at the next Beechworth General Sessions. The Ballarat district coroner held an inquest on the body of Jane Leggatt, whose death was caused, according to the Courier, by a very simple but somewhat remarkable accident, viz., through falling off a chair. The shock to the nervous system was bo severe that peritonitis resulted, and death ensued & few hotfrs after the occurrence. A curious application was made in the city police court at Ballarat lately on behalf of a girl named Jane Stephen. She had given birth to a child whose father, a man named St. John, .had left the colony before the child's birth. The application, which waa made under the 83rd olauseofthe Marriage and Matrimonial Causes Statute 1864, was to the effect that the clerk of petty sessions might be authorised to attach the rents of certain property of St. John for the support of the child. An order was made for 14s per week, the rent of houses, the property of St. John, to be attached to this amount A row at the Park Company's claim, Ballarat, lately, is reported by the Star : — " The mine wai let ta five tributers, who employed some 150 miners, and these set the directors of the company at defiance, and some unpleasant things were said and done. The directors determined - to assert their rights, and obtained police protection, two constables being stationed at the works all night. One of the miners, after the sluiceraan had been ejected from his place and other hostile things threatened, got into the cage, and said he would not allow the directors or anybody to go the shaft unless it pleased the 160 / employees of the tributers. Upon this 4kje directors consulted their solicitor, who advised a cancelling of the agreement with the tributers. This was done, and the mine reverted to the directors, who have invited a new tribute." Chair-making is a branch of industry undertaken by the Chinese in Melbourne. They have been at it for a long time, and the}r cleverness at carving finds good scope in the business, Passing along a' lane between Bourke and Little Bourke streets, near the ruins of tho Theatre Boyal, the signboard of Mr "Him Kee, chairinaker" (in English and Chinese), may; be seen. There are three other chairmaking establishments in the lane besides Him Kee's, and nearly a dozen Chinamen may be observed through the open doors hard at work. They are remarkably expeditious, and turn out the chairs with a beautiful finish. The chairs are all of the same pattern, substantial and handsome cedar ones, suited either for wooden or horsehair seats. Most of • them, however, are wooden-seated by the Chinese, and thus finished altogether before leaving their shops. A fatal accident in the bush is reported by the DunoUy Express: — "Two men were engaged splitting in the bush about two miles north-east from Bokhar's store, when a tree fell on them. Une of the men when found was quite dead, and the other, although still alive, had the tree lying across him in such a way that it had to be removed before he could be released from his position. Information reached the police about ten o'clock, when Dr. Sutherland, accompanied by mounted* constable Sullivan, immediately started to render assistance. The names of the men are James Warne (killed), and Peter Steinford. We are informed that the men were seen at their work at about imndown. and their not arriving home at the usual time rendered Warne's wife so anxious respecting them that the neigh* bom were induced to go out in search of the men, and on coming to the spot they found them as above described." A rather remarkable discovery of human relics is reported by the Bendigo Advertiser. The prisoners working in •the Camp Reserve, Sandhurst, near Mr ChomleyY residence, on Tuesday, came upon some bones, which upon examination were found to be those of a human being. They were found in a small excavation, which was partly filled with black soil, showing that they had been -deposited there, and they appeared to be quite 'decomposed, from which it was evident that however they came there, they; had been remaining iv this strange regting-place for many yean. At first it was thought that the principal of the fragments, which was the thigh bone of a being, was part of the remains of an aboriginal, but the supposition was contradicted in a manner as singular as it was evident. The lower joint was missing, the whole of the extremity being cut off as if by a saw. The strange feature of the discovery is this fact, that a portion of the limb had been amputated,and it would take a long series of investigations and speculations to arrive at any conclusion as to how it found its way into the Camp Reserve. Edncatlonal.