LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1235, 13 July 1872, Page 3

LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Colonial tin has been sold at auction at L 159 per ton. The purchase of the Fitzroy iron mines by an English company has been definitely concluded. Six months' leave of absence has been granted to his Honor Judge Cope, who has been suffering from ill-health for some short time past. From various quarters in England complaints are received that the Australian preserved meats are over-cooked. Fifty-five entries have been made for the Hunter River Mares' Produce Stakes, including one by Mr Fisher and two by MrDowling. A reward of L 25 is offered for such information as will lead to the conviction of the person who attempted to burn down the nouse of Susannah Soutrie, near Sturt street, Ballarat, on the 7th of May last. .

An inquest has been held on the body of a sailor, who when drank attempted to break into a house of ill-fame, in Sydney, the proprietor of which struck him with an iron oar, causing death. A verdict of " Justifiable homicide" was returned. The greater portion of the village of Gerringong, near Kiama, was burned from a fire lighted to consume dead timber. The English church and school, Perkins's store, Hines'spiotel/and Scott's boot store, were all destroyed, besides ipther buildings. A melancholy accident has occurred at Cockatoo diggings, where a little girl named Clarke, five years, fell into the creek, and was swept away before assistance could be rendered. The body was recovered by the police fully a mile from the scene of the accident. The turret ship Cerberus, together with the Nelson and Victoria, mounted floral wreaths the other day in honor of the marriage of Captain W. H. Panter, the gallant commander of the Cerberus, with Miss Manifold, an heiress in the Western district. A man named James Moore, seventy yean of age, has been killed at Whipstick, Bendigo, by a falling tree. Deceased cut several, and stood aside to let the last one fall, but it bounded off another tree and struck deceased a terrible blow on the back of the neck and killed hiink "So fewer than three old colonists have departed this life in Geelong during the week, viz., Mr D. Bunce, Mr Cornelius Bean, 73 years of age, ope of the first members of the corporation, who was once in comparatively affluent circumstances, but who died in poverty ; and Mrs Thomas, of Ceres, Barrabool Hills, who expired after a long illness. A good story, according to the Star, is going about Ballarat to the effect that the fion and his spouse, at the menagerie, were under a bill of sale. The creditor 'foreclosed, and was told to take his security, but to leave the cage intact, as that was the property of the debtor. The

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creditor, we are told, did hot take the lions. ■ * Small-pox has broken out in Sand-i hurst, and one child has died from it 1 The disease is supposed to have been introduced by two brothers named James,) passengers by the Nebraska. Strict pre-j cautions have been adopted, and all vessels from New Zealand are ordered into quarantine. A notice appears in the Government Gazette to that effect. j , The manner in which the late Victorian Ministry provided for their friends, after! their virtual expulsion from office, con-j tinues to be exposed. On the 4th of June, after: Mr Duffy, had tendered the resignation of himself and his colleagues^ a lease of an area of Ja lr 14p was granted for seven years on the south side' of the Tarra, to • the Langlands ♦ Foundry Com; pany. The company in this transaction was represented by the Hon. 0. J. Jenner. . . . ■ Some difficulty has arisen between the South Australian Government and the Anglo-Australian Cable Company. The company would appear to have repudiated the penalty paid Dy the sister colony for the non-performance of her portion of the contract within the specified time, and have come to terms with the Queensland Government for laying another cable between Port Darwin and Normautown. The South Australian Government, however, rely upon the fact that they have actually paid the penalty. The establishment of through communication will, however, probably remove the difficulty. The first through message from Europe, . nine days old, was received on the morning of the 2nd inst., in Melbourne, causing great excitement both in Melbourne and the country districts. The meagreness of the message, and the absence of general news is accounted for by its not being Beater's telegram, but only a private message to the Argus. The cable line has been out of order between Port Darwin andßatavia, from June 25. The extent of the damage is unknown. The steamer . Investigator, with necessary appliances, is on the spot repairing the damage. Mr Todd has promised to send a special express when the line is re-opened. It is likely that a batch of messages will be then received. As yet only four telegrams have been received in Melbourne. A new clause has been introduced into the Border Customs Bill, aud is now under discussion, authorising the Government of New South Wales to accept from Victoria a lump sum in lieu of the duties, thus again establishing absolute free trade across the border. We learn that some further correspondence on the subject has taken place between the two Governments. Mr Francis, in reply to a communication from the Premier of the sister Colony, has stated that he feels bound to cany out all the engagements made by his predecessors relative to the taking of aoQQunts, but at the same time he pointed out how inconvenient such a course would be unless the returns were collected in a very simple manner, and urged that the acceptance of a lump sum would by far be the preferable course. We learn from private sources that the project of establishing another European line of telegraph to this colony, via Western Australia, hss by no means been abandoned. The opinion is gaining ground ia some quarters that the working of the transcontinental telegraph, at present nearly completed, will be attended with great difficulties and frequent interruptions, and consequently movements are being made to revive old schemes that had been put aside. The proposal of laying a cable from Java to the northwest coast of the continent, |thence by land telegraph to King George's Sound, . aud ; by cable to Cape Otway or some other point in Victoria, has already frequently been mooted, and is very favorably countenanced, we are informed, by the Government of Western Australia. No doubt the gain to that settlement would be unmistakable, but the promo--7 ters of the scheme allege that Victoria . would be equally benefited, and might by that means obtain direct communication, with command of the entire line — an ad- . vantage which neither the trans-con- ' tinental telegraph to Adelaide nor the projected scheme via Queensland would ever confer upon the colony.

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