LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1308, 8 October 1872, Page 2

LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

[ - Two fatal accidents occurred at Ballarat on the 16th September. The first was the" death of a young man named Morgan j . Jones, at. work as a miner at Haddoh, p - who was killed; by a cage descending; on r his head as he was speaking to. some one j at the bottom of the shaft ; and the second was the death of a young lad named j O'Connor, who was thrown from' a; horse |. he was riding on the Melbourne road. 1 ! f A yery fine sample of iron.ore from the p north-vest coastof Tasmania is to be seen . at Messrs ; Lyell and Gowan's, -Elizabeth j. street, Melbourne. It is stated that an . aßsay,has proved that this ore contains 69 f : per ; cent. : of iron , and is f ree : from phdsphorous or sulphnr. The locality whence f it was obtained is on the River Gawlor^ 1 about 120 miles. from Launceston, in; a j well-timbered and carboniferous country, and it is easily, accessible . by water. I The j person hblding the ground intends to float [ a company to work it. ' ; ; ;Wo have been shown a specimen of |a [ new patent gunpowder j called Xylobrome, . for the sale of which Mr Daniel O'Connor, 3 of. Ballarat, is agent in the* Australialn p c»l6nies. The preparation is very similar T in. appearance to gun-cotton, and when f ignited bua piece of paper explodes in 'a j perfectly harniless way. Nevertheless, it f is- stated to be six times as strong as , ordinary Wasting-powder, -and trials of the composition which have been made at 5 the New_ North 1 Clime's" and Chines : Quartz-mining Companies have produced , the most satisfactoryresults bn'the hardest ' rbclcs.' '■; • : :.' l [■'■>'' •"•'• '' '■'■'' ' ' ■ The fine ship Dilawur hauled off from . the Sandridge Town Pier on the lfth ult. r with a cargo of 197 horses for the" Indian ; market; Of these, 93 have been shipped „ : by; Mr Gfidney, who is already well kngw'n ' in the Indian market., His horses .are, all , well. bred, and fitted ; for ; remounts for cavalry or carriage horses. . Mr T." Brown takes 30 horses, selected My ; liiinself in the L Western district. They are all youni, and have been? carefully broken in to saddle. They show a good deal of bree^- , ing, the: greater portion of them being bysuch horses as Snowdon, Peter Wilkinp, Camden,Landsbor6', and Saddlei. The remainder of the horses are shipped by Mr: M'Mahon; and are more fitted fdr . harness than saddle. : ■ | i Some of the Continental papers '"' report ..; ;that. the. captain'; of the GermatUship Nymphe had oh the 25th of March last i :an audience of the king of the Fiji Islands. To the communication that the Gerraaia i Emperor intends eventually^tpestablish a.consulate at Fijiyihe King replied, "1 i know that Germany ; has ;through her .. union; become. a great state, and I have during the late war followed the feats df rthe great nation? with the* greatest interest. It is my intention also : to .form a strong empire through the unipn^of the different races^ and. thorough carefulness of the interests of the foreign coloniste. It will be the- greatest honor for pc if his Majesty the Emperor will grant irie- his help and recognition by the' domination 1 of a consul;'' i The next German ship 6f war which is to visit Fiji is to ;carr'yltp; King Thakombaiia present; of; some cannons and breech-loading guns. > The , Evelyn : Tunnelling Gold-mining Company, which, about two years and three months ago,* bored a tunnel through a steep ridge near Warrandyte^ : and turned the river.Tarra out of its course, with the intention of obtaining the gold which was. supposed to be lying iri the bed of the river, has been voluntarily wound up. The shareholders were enterprising ; they cut a tunnel through hard rock, built a dam across the river, and rendered nearly tftree miles of the old, bqd available for. mining purposes. /But ; the venture did not succeed. •; Gold was found, but the.expenses swallowed it up; and left the shareholders, presided over by Mr Ihglis, resolutions were passed for winding tip , the affair. .The sale of the plant, which had produced L 400 ,; was confirmed, and the directors were autKorised.to divide the surplus lelfc after the paynient of liabilities amongst the preferential shareholders, who, it was announced; would receive 4s 6d p ; er shire. A .fatal mining accident is reported by tho Mount AlexaMer Mail, and in connection therewith; ia piece of bravery, on the part of a ; Chinaman is notiQed :— "On the 22nd; : ult., at $wo o^clock, an alarm Wft ß given, that James Stuart, an old man, aged 73, was buried alive in a' shaft about

20ft deep, on the old diggings, Moonlight Flat. Aid was soon obtained, and, notwithstanding the dangerous state of the ground, a Chinaman volunteered to go down to rescue the old man, and succeeded so far aa to be able to place a rope around him ; when, just as the first pull was made, another mass of earth ieUjn^and xompletely ; 6^rWfieime^"ijoth; By this time a ,, number of miners had collected, ready -'toiue every exertion, biit few with sufficient nerve to yehture r .Jh§^Jives down a rotten shaft,, witn"*every indication of further fallingin No man with a wife and family would be justified in risking his life for- an apparently useless purpose, as very little hopes could be entertained that; either .would be rescued alive. Fortunately for the poor Chinaman, ; two brave hearts relieved each flther in removing the earth, audaftar strenuous efforts, Mr William Huxley succeeded in sending him up, but in an exhaiiate I state. Mr William Gray exerted himself ■to the utmost- to extricate ;the remains of James Stuart before darkness, act in, :! bnfc it wasnearly six, o'clock before, the. body of the unfortunate old man wasrecpyered. Life was, of ■ course, extinct. ' The" police brought the Chinaman t6' &itp< Hospital same evening, about nine o'clock; although much bruised, he is not seriously injured." -■■'••■■; ;;■ [■„ - u; 7 . ; The Border difficulty, so fsi,r frdifr jSeing finally adjusted, seems likely to require a prolonged^ negotiation. The despatch of Mr Francis, just received} is reported to point out several serious bbstacleV.to^ the projected plan of taking an account.jj It 13 stated from .two or three quarters that Mr Francis is not without anxiety as to his tobacco .revenue;, Mr Cameron, a Virginian gentleman; anil 'a member of the firm which manufactures the wellknown " raven" rtobacco, has for' some time past, been planning the establishment of a manufactory in Australia, and, after having made close inquiries' as to the cost of labour in Melbourne and Sydney, • and into , other : niattere j-that wouli affect . his profits, he : has decided that Sydney is the mpsfc eligible spojj for his . A.ustralian f operations; "■ ;'' He' has acr cordingly purchased the bid' sugar jWorks^ at the corner of Pitt and Liverpool streets, and is refitting the premises as a tobacco manufactory,- Several presses have been imported and are already Bet up, and all the "preparatory works are [progressing as fast, as circumstances- will permit. ■'■ j[ A , 'suicide was committed in Victoria , street west, Hotham, . on Wednesday night, 18th ult., by a gentleman, who at the time 'was ■evidently in a^ distressing state of mind through severe bodily pain. The ,. deceased was Mr Jlobeirt Martin, araughtsman ! in the l ofls(Je of the engineer-in-chief, who had been confined to his bed for four or five months by a very painful internal illness... JMiout _4_ o'clock on Wednesday afternoon, Mrs Martiu went upstairs to see how; her husband was^ and ascertained that he' was in his usual state. At 6- .o'clock, when she ;wen.t.~nnstairs again, she' saw Mr Martin lying on^the floor, whicl^ was covered with blo6d.V; Dr Burke, who resided near, was immediately sent for, and it was then found that ithe deceased was dead, having shot, himself with a revolver, which had been /for a long time kept in his f room for the purpose of protection against thieves. A strange circumstance connected with the death was that no one heard the report of the revolver, and the exact time at which it was fired'ekrinot be ascertained, though it could not have been long before the body was found, : as it' waft ;thett r quite warm. Only one barrel" of 4he; revolver was discharged, the remaining five being all loaded with ball. . The deceased, who was 69 years of age, leaves' a ~sfe;jand several grown-up sons and dat^hjbers, some of whom resided with Kim'.' ri "He was in good circumstances at the time of his death; It is stated that during the afternoon he took an dverdole^SfTshloral, which he had been ; using as an anodyne, and it is believed that this caused a temporary derangement of the mind. ._ The "screw steamship NorthumberLfnd, of Messrs Money Wigram and Son's line, : which made a favorable impression here on her first voyage, has again accomplished a rapid and most successful run out, the distance this time having been performed in 52 days and a half. She 'brings a large complement of passengers, several of whom are colonists returning to_ Australia. There is.; off boaw|7the Northumberland' a brown filly 'by Yoking Melbourne, out of Inez, by Newminsles bred at her Majesty's , stud farm, at Hampton Court; and brought out hereby Mr Cox, of Sydney; and there are also two . bulls^Piince' ArthVvr^ William, by Royal Benedict (27,348 in the Stud Book), dam Princess • land; PTiiToeTreopold, by the same sire, dam Oomley, both ' bred at the late Prince Consort's farm, : and imported by MrEriglanoYi «f Taratipa, Queensland.. 'In addition to these Nffiere ,are. l also 0 1l rams and 20. ewepof 1 the Leicester breed, and two sapling-grey-hounds, Nimrod- and iDootor*; by Mr J. Adam's Cain out of Mr Mease ftctslebrated slut Cora. Cain: is by: Jupiter, out of Fairy, and Cora byHighbank outof My, Mr Cox, a pa^enger, : has also a celebrated deertfbund'on bbard. Several spebimens of the feathered tribe have also been brought out, and these comprise two .pairs of dun and three p^irs blaojtjcanrier pigeons. " Several other descriptions 'of rare breeds of pigeons are also on board. By the Northumberland English -pap6rs -to .the 24th July have arrived.--— -.-?■ The ti dead, and decomposed body. r of» a respectably-dressed man was found a few days ago in a mining tunnel at Springhill, near Creswic'c. A terrible gash in the throat of the deceased revealed the cause of death, and a razor lying by his, side, covered with blood, furnished «vU dtjnce .that he .liad,,prQba.hJjr: die 4 from his own hand-r a. belief which was strengthened by further discoveries inaie by Constable Daly. It se^s ; thai' ahbut three weeks ago 1 some; hioya 1 imb were playing in the tunnal, whioh ; had F been formerly worked : by Morris and I Moly. neaux, , came upon tho dead; body oil a man , lying in the position in wh^ah it wai evidently found, about 1 300 ft up , the tunnel. The boys, who, were frightened, went home and told their parents, by whom thestory was- considered to We so improbable that no heed was giveu- to \t fora few days, when a resident' of Orbwick, Mr Thomas; Jacobs, determined to investigate the matter. On exploring the tunnel he found the body as described by the boys, and he immediately gave infoi mation to Constable D^ly, Qloa^ by ; the deceased. tj^:la.tte? found a paitwl o| clothes, including a large blwk%e|c«ii^ a sac coat, a black hat a hat ft^rlito and bone whistle attachod, a lilack 1 necktid/ red and grey muffler, and • mw

p*per collar. These articles were folded tip and placed in a^ supplement of the Argus, dated 26th July, and on ihe margin of the paper was written :-^" In my pocket you will find belonging jo me t.1j21 14s 3d, hard-eared money.'*' The constable searched the pockets of the trousers worn by deceased, and found the amount stated in the left-hand pocket, and in the right hand a meeri schanm pipe (in case.) The pipe was gold-mounted, and on the moanting was engraved, "From B. G. to T. N." On deceased's little .finger of the left hand was a gold ring with dark stone. Ho had Oil lace-up boots, perforated at the top-j pieces; tweed trousers, with stripes down the side ; a cross* barred check Crimean shirt, and white under-flannel. In ap« p3aronoe he was a man of about 33 years of age, sft oin in height, and of reddish oamplexiou, wtth whiskers, . beard and moustache. As yet nothing is known as fo the identity of the deceased ; but the

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inqtfestwas to be held at noon jOiytlie fouowing Tuesday. L,.[. In the * Argus ol the3ls«ult. some ti)i intolligeDcewa3extractedfromthe&t«W«n* Cross in which mention was madg of Mr Archibald Watson, son of a well-knowjo squatter in Viotorfa, having been arrested as one of tfie person^ poncernea in the infamous <4uso bf the brig Carl. It appears, howeyer, from correspondence which has been placed in our hands by members of hia family, .that he had not the slightest connection with that vessel or her owners or charterers, in tho flagitious transaction referred to. After her rtturn to Fiji from her slayin?.expedition, she was announced to sail for sonje islands in the North-West Pacific, and Mr \Vatson L being in ill-health, wishirig to visit that part of the world, and knowing nothing of tho real character and objects of the Carl, took his passage in her for the trip. This extended as far as theLadrones and New Ireland. Among other islands visited by Mr Watson was one which he states has been discovered within the last half century, and upon which are some immense stone ruins, which are supposed to be of Spanish origin. On some other islands he found a handsome light-colored race, wearing their own cloth, distilling spirits, and paviqg their ■treeta. Their bosi«js, with the exception of their faces and breasts, are minutely and elaborately tattooed. On his return to Levuka, the Carl was seized by H.M.S. Cossack, as already narrated in our columns, and Mr Watson was arrested on a charge of murder and piracy on the high seas, but was promptly Balled out by Mr Bntters, ! the Speaker of the Assembly, from whom the unlucky yonng man received the utmost kindness and attention. , .