LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1224, 1 July 1872, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

The Hon. Saul Samuel has purchased the Goulburn Meat-preserving- Company's plant, and. intends to erect it at Liverpool, and establish works on his own account. An attempt at suicide was made by a shipcarpenter named- George Watson, 54 years old, living at Maidstone. He had been drinking, and cut his throat with a razor, but did not inflict a serious wound. He was taken to the Melbourne Hospital. A man named Michael Sullivan, aged 30 years, residing at Heidelberg, fell from his horse while riding home. It was found that he had sustained concussion of the brain, and he was taken to the ■ Melbonrne Hospital. The whole of the 'tween deck cargo from the Young Australia has been recovered, and that in the lower hold is likely to be saved also. The wreck keeps together well. The second officer . of the Tasso died from fever on the voyage from .the Mauritius. The vessel encountered very heavy weather. The decks burst, and the cargo became damaged. It has been decided, after a considerable^ amount of discussion amongst the com* mittee of the Ballarat Mechanics' Ipatitute, that a billiard table should not be . .included amongst the amusements of that institution. One member suggested a skittle-alley, but the idea did not find* supporters, though it afforded a good deal of amusement. The Parker's Extended Company, at Ballarat,' have struck some gold- bearing stone, near where they had good quartz once before ; the lode is 3ft thick. It is stated that the Black Horse Company intend to sink their shaft another 100 ft in ordeir to .catch the shoot of goldtktely struck in Mr Learmonth's mine. Bt'Namara's Freehold is the name of a new. company formed to work some ground in Ballarat East, on Bakery Hill. The success of the Gravel Pits claim is the cause of this new one being started. The Haddon ' Company declared a dividend of L 3 10s. - Mr Piddington, the Treasurer of the New South Wales Government, has delilivered his Budget speech in the Sydney House of Assembly. The. revenue accounts for last year showed a deficit, and it is proposed to issue Treasury bills in order to meet the amount/ The total revenue for the year was estimated at L 2,450,854., 450,854. Large increases were shown in the following items : — Customs, L 82.000 ; laud, LIOO,OOO ; railways, L 37,000. The total public debt, of the colony on Ist June amounted to L 10,606,030. No new taxation is proposed, neither is any change in fiscal policy contemplated. .; ' • < An old and very much-esteemed resident of YanYan Gnrt, named Malcolm M'Gill, met with a fatal accident on the - 12th inst. He was employed by Mr Gep. Armytage to get some timber to repair a private bridge across the Barwon, and * was in the act of cutting a tree for this purpose when it fell, and, coming in contact with the branches of another, rebounded, and fell upon the deceased) causing instantaneous death.* The tree had to be removed before the body could be extricated. The deceased has left a

wife and seven children, and the neighbors in the district are taking steps to aid them in their distress. There was a general expression of surprise at the handicap for the Melbourne Cup being &uch a heavy one. As in the Metropolitan, the list is headed by Warrior, who has the hea\y weight of Oat 91b to carry; Nimblefoot comes next, with 31b less ; Hamlet taking third place with 9st 31b ; Javel'n has 9st to cr y; Ace i and P^yrrhns have both Bst 41b, which in such a heavy handicap may be considered a favorable weight. Lecturer heads the three-year-olds with fat; King of the King having 6st 121 b ; and Scandal r id Hercules 6st 101 b each. The Sovereign Company at Ballarat have got what is at present supposed to be a new lode conrng into the shaft from the west— the last cmc in from the ea t ; the stone so far looks well, and shows a good deal of gold, not in huge pieces as the last quartz did, but in small, and it appears to be better distributed through the stone. Carter's party at Creswick have had their first washing, and appear to have raised some splendid dirt, as it '» said that less than half a mr shine yieldc d nearly lOOoz of gold. The Countess Company, Ballarat East, appear unable to do much more without millinery, and intend to double the shares, and put the new issue in the market to enable them to purchase what they require. The whole of the stone has averaged 4dwt per ton, and the main lode is 10ft thick. The Polynesian question has just cropped up again at Toowoonba. . M~ Beit, of Westbrook, summoned several Polynesians for refusing to work, and the Toowoomba Bench ignored their defence that they had not been supplied with the blankets and clothing to which they were legally entitled, and sentenced them to terms of imprisonment in the Jrisbane Gaol. If the defence were bona fide, the men have some reason to complain that they have not had justice from the Toewoomba Bench ; and the taxpayers of the colony may not unreasonably object that they are saddled with obligations ought to be borne by the employer, s^^and not by the public at large. The occurrence is the more noticeable, because at-'-the recent executions of an aboriginal and a white man within the Brisbane Gaol care was taken to have a group of aboriginal prisoners as spectators, presumably with the object of convincing them that — at all events in the matter of hanging— equal justice is extended to black and white. The Border Watch relates the following — "During the visit of the lion Wallace to Mount Gambier, an enthusiastic Highlandman was led to pay him special honor as a mark of the esteem in which he held

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Ms more distinguished Scottish namesake. Having got his bagpipes in order, he took his stand in front of the animal's cage, and struck up one of his most stirring tunes. The effect, however, waß rather unexpected. The lion was completely eleotrified at the unwonted music, made a most vigorous attempt to escape from his cage, and exhibited the, strongest symptoms of rage or terror, and it waß not till some time after the bagpipes were summarily shut up that he had regained his equanimity. He was evidently not sufficiently Scotch to appreciate the compliment." A severe storm in Tasmania on the 4th June was followed by a flood which did a -large amount of damage. Portion of Hobart Town was inundated by the water, which came down the rivulet in a large volume and overflowed the banks ; but the principal mischief was done at Glenorchy, where some of the hop grounds were destroyed. About 10 o'clock the same night, an immense landslip occurred at the base of Mount Wellington, and immediately afterwards a torrent of waters rushed down upon the settlements at Glenorchy. Cultivated lands and houses which had escaped inundation in the daytime were on this occasion seriously damaged. The velocity of the torrent seems to have been tremendous while it lasted, for full-grown trees were torn up and swept on to the lower grounds. The noise created by the landslip was heard at a distance of nine miles. It is supposed that a large body of water accumulated in a basin among the hills at the foot of Mount Wellington during the heavy rainfall. When the land gave way the water escaped, and so caused the second flood. Floods also occurred in the South Esk River, and at Longford a high level was reached. The Fiji Times of ihe 10th > April says : —"The Frolio, cutter, returned from a labor cruise to tho Line Islands on Friday night last. Her captain reports:— sth February, spoke the ketch Trent, at De Peyster's Group. No labor. On 20th. March, at Neocatifu Harbor, the La Marie anchored alongside us. On the 21st, her captain ordered his men to hoist the mainsail and come abngside, and take the Frolio, without any cause or provocation, for the sake of getting our labor. His orew, however, refused to obey him. After that he loaded several rifles, and deliberately took aim at two of our crew, who were at work. The bullet passed through our boat. We returned the fire, which drove the La Marie's crew between . decks. Three of our crew took the boat and boarded her. As they were pulling towards the cutter her captain pointed a rifle at them, but seeing that we were well armed, refrained from firing. They , then sprang on board, threw the loaded weapons overboard, and put her captain in irons, and took him on board the Frolic as a prisoner for Fiji. He was taken out of irons after the La Marie left, " and effected his escape. The Frolic brines 29 laborers." The Victorian Industrial and Technological museum has received a valuable collection of t pacimens from South Africa, presented by Mr E. H. Dunn. About 60 of the specimens are from Namaqualand, a rich copper district in which Mr Dunn bad been prospecting for gold, but without finding a payable deposit. Some cf the rocks show a marked resemblance to those brought from about fivo hundred miles n6rth of Adelaide, and recently placed in the museum by Mr Ulrich. Another set, consisting of about forty specimens, represents the rocks and alluvial deposits of the principal diamond districts of South Africa. The rocks consist of limestone,- metamorphic schists, melaphyre, amygdaloid, greenstone, granite, &c The alluvial deposits in which the diamonds are found are composed of pebbles of jasper, quartz, chalcedony, &c, calcareous tufa, spinet sand, blown sand, <fee. It is intended to arrange and place these specimens so that they nuiy beeasily compared with the. eoraeapoßdiog' collection from Mudgee, N;S;W.^ made by Mr Norman Taylor. Mr Dunn, who was trained in the Geological Survey of Victoria, is now Government geologist for Cape Colony. William Swales, the boy who rode tl» horse Saladin in the celebrated race for the Australian Cup, sued Mr James Robert Crooke, the owner of the horse, in the Connty Court, Melbourne, for Lsl IjOs^ Veing 10 per cent, on the stakes which were won by Saladin in the race named. The boy gave evidence that before the race he was employed in Mr D. Robinson's stable at a wage of 7a 6d per week and his board. Three days prior to ihe race he was asked by Mr Crooke to ■ide the horse for the cup, and agreed to do so* He reduced his weight from Bst to 6st 131 b, and won the Cup with tho horse", after, having to ride three times over, namely, in two dead heats and the final heat, but had not received the usual 10 per cent, which was paid customarily to jockeys when they won races. Mr Crooke proved that Robinson agreed with him to take charge of the horse some time before the race for 30s per week, and. to find a jockey to ride it in races for L3s 3a per race and 10 percent, on its winnings. Altogether he had paid Mr Kobinson L7l 6s on account of the horse, which was a settlement of all he oweA him, including the money for winning the cup. Robinson, who was called, said he had an agreement with the Tooy- to work for him and ride as a jockej> fop the sum of 7s Gd per week, with beard, and farther that he had not got aty the -money Mr Crooke owed him, or ha, w»uld have paid tho boy a portion of, it, Hia Honor Judge Poblman consi&refr the boy had been harshly dealt witb^by. Mr Robins* n, but said he mus^nonsuit him, as he lad been engaged to ride, iind train horses. A serious^ accident, the Bendigo Info penttefli, reports, occurred early on Tues- • day aiorniug.tu the night mail coaeft Bekween Sandhurst and Inglewood. AUttle after one o'clock, when the coachjwas ap- I proacliing a steep hill fonr miles tnifr sid-e I of Marong, one of the wheel* »n against I asMimp and capsized th^vohicfo. Tael Tiight being unusually dark- and the writer I rushing down the hil!|, cpveriag the road I which is not in good repaid the driver of I 11» coach— Mr D* M'Crae, better known I as " Dan"—was obliged to go a little off I the track, and thus met with the mishap.; fi Tvo lady, passengers who were inside the Ij coach received several contusions, bnt V were not- much injured. The driveV had j I hi&right shoulder dislocated. A boy who I ' w<?» on the box with the driver escaped li without .a scratch, anl was sent to give 1 1 of the occurrence at Marong 1 1 but missed his way, and waa obliged to I?! '* biwh it M till daylight. Fortunately, a f hospitable shelter was afforded the pas I : ! •ngew aa<* the coachdriyer by a neigh JP

boring hutkeeper, and "Dan" had his injury attended ta at the hospital yesterday. The coach was not materially damaged, the homes having remained quiet till released from the overturned coach.