INTERCOLONIAL ITEMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1509, 5 June 1873, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL ITEMS.

Good news from Blackwood is reported by the Kyneton Observer:— Mounter Bros., Barry's Reef, are still crushing. The stone continues extremely rich. The present crushing is variously estimated to turn out from 501 bto 701 b weight. Some good j udges incline to the latter. This is but a. small claim, but bids fair to give a large fortune to each of the fortunate proprietors. The probable yield of gold in sight has been calculated by an ex-mining surveyor to be worth no less than L 40,000. The Ararat Advertiser reports that "diphtheria has made its appearance at Colvinsby. A farmer named Upham lost two children within the last fortnight from this disease, one aged ten and the other six years. A neighboring farmer, named Jules, has also had the disease in his family, but there has been no fatal termination. Two of Mr Upham's children have also got well from the complaint." It appears that the cost of the recent outbreak of smallpox at Sandhurst, including the compensation awarded to the persons whose property was destroyed for the purpose of stamping out the disease, amounted to about L7OO. The Chiltern paper makes the following statement :— " We hear that Jas. Brady, the father of Thomas Brady, who was lately executed at Beechworth, died of a broken hearl just one day before his son was launched into eternity. : The old man removed from Chiltern some time ago, and since then has been living at Albury with a relation) where he died." As we intimated the border duties difficulty has been determined between Victoria and New South Wales. The convention received from Sydney by the City of Adelaide was signed on Saturday by Mr Francis and Mr Langton on the part of Victoria, and a notification of the same was immediately telegraphed to New South Wales. The necessary instructions have been forwarded to the Customs officers of both Colonies, and on the Ist of June the convention will come into force. The inspection fees on stock will continue to be collected, and of course stringent measures will be taken to ensure that goods passed in bond into Riverina are i there consumed, and not reconveyed into Victoria. A correspondent of the Pleasant Greek Npius, writing on the 14th May abqut the new rush at Lake Cudgeiligo, in the Lachlan district, says :— "I'weht io the rush, and was perfectly astonished to find the real state of the digging, after what I had been led to expect from the newspapers. The gold has only been seen in one place, viz., the prospecting claim, and although numbers of miners have been prospecting all around, both for alluvial and reefs, no success has met their efforts hitjierto. $here is certainly gold to be

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seen in the reel (if it is a reef, upon ■which there is a diversity of opinion), but if it were in Victoria, I venture to say we should think little of it. Tblere are about 70 persons on the ground at present, and about this time last week there were twice that number. iA great many people are leaving . daily;." •. : '. „ . The Eleanor ree|,..at Yam Creek, is stjll causing a sensation. The first batch; of leases has been surveyed." ThVPrißcilla men are leaving the companies to; work on , their own account. A/dweovery of a yerv rich leader three, miles south of Westcott's is rumored- Things will' be at a' Stand-: still till labor and machinery arrive. ,Thej surface show on No. 1 Eleanor, south of the prospecting claim, is prqnounced to i be equal to the Royal Standard, only the gold is finer. Many claims have been pegged out within the last few days. Most of the miners are going to palmerston for rations. A parcel of over lOboz of alluvial gold has been .obtained at Lowley reefs. Prospects are steadily improving. Inquiries are made for laborers. The dry season has fairly set in. . i The stand taken by the Victorian Government on the postal question has had its effect. The Acting-Governor of; South Australia telegraphed to Sir George; Bowen, announcing that he had received from Lord Kimberley a telegram intimating that the proposal of the British Government for a temporary prolongation of the Suez mail service, not having been unanimously accepted by the colonies, was withdrawn. It had been determined to carry mails to and from Galle, . Singapore, and San Francisco and Great Britain \ free of charge ; and in the event of a service being established by any one or more colonies from Galle, Singapore, or San Francisco, the British Government would pay to each contributing colony the post- I age received on outward mail letters, tile , arrangement to continue for five years. This decision of the home Government of course places Victoria in, a very advantageous position as regards the Suez route. A short account of the new rush at a place called Kamarooka, in.the;Saadhurst district, is given by the Bendigo Adver- , tiser: — "From a business gentleman of I this city, who arrived recently from Kamarocka, we learn some particulars of the new rush in that part of the district, which has lately been attracting.attention. It is about 22 miles. from Sandhurst. and eight miles from Bay wood. The road to it is a good bush tr,ack. There are about 200 men on the ground, and 20 claims paying tolerably well. At the top of the gully the sinking is 38ft deep, and the washdirt from 2ft to 4ft thick, yielding from 3dwt to JOdwt to the load, the sinking being hard. The lead in one part has been lost, but was found again half a mile lower down, where the sinking is 3Cft, the washdirt 2ft thick, and the average yield 7dwt per lpad, , The lead seems to run out into an extensive flat. There is a very good prospect ■of -, the greund being payable, and it is worthy of a trial. The gentleman referred to considers that it is a diggings where wages can be made for some time to come, There is plenty of water on the ground, and puddlingmachines in course of erection, and, in fact, every facility for fair prospecting. At the same time be would not recommend any one" to leave steady employment to go there." The Bendigo Indepetuleivt reports the following case of attempted suicide : — "A man named Joseph Hall was brought to the lock-up «bout 11 o'clock on Thursday night by Constable Fox, on a charge of ; attempting to commit suicide. It appears that Hall had, just arrived from Echuca by the late train'j for the purpose of obtaining admittance I into, the , Bendigo Hospital. He brought with, him a letter to a gentleman living in Dowling street, who was to obtain a ticket' for him 'to gain admittance into the hospital. After retiring to bed, a great noise was heard in the yard by the gentleman alluded to,: and upon the inmates of the house going out to ascertain the cfause, : it ; was 'found that Hall had thrown himself into a shaft in the yard of the Railway Hotel, which is 80ft deep, and contains a lot of water. A rope was at once lowered down, and Hall fastened it round his: body; and .he. was pulled to the surface by Mr Costen and others. Hall only had his shirb on at the time, and after he had been supplied with a few more ' articles of apparel, he was taken to the watchhouse by Constable Fox and Mr Costen. Dr Cruikshank was called in to attend to Hall, but he had apparently received no further -injury, than a good shaking. He states that he had been employed about Echuca as a surveyor, and that in consequence of the unfaithfulness of a woman. with whom. he had been living he became unsettled in his mind. The^e : is little doubt but that in a fit of temporary insanity he determined to destroy himself. It is fortunate that his cries for help were heard so soon, as had he been allowed, to remain in the shaft much longer he would have met with a watery grave." . "Mr C. L. Quist, > of Hunter street, Sydney," the \Sydiiey Homing Herald says, " has just executed an order received through Messrs Rabone, FeezVahd Co., for H.F.M. Thakombau, King of Fiji. This order is the artistic ornamentation of a war club of the Fijian potentate, which has been "adapted to the peaceful* uses of a Parliamentary mace ; and. a very handsome one it makes. The mace is rather more than, four feet long, *>£ a dark, close-grained wood, richly adorned ; with wreaths of fern leaves, &c., in frosted silver. These leaves are twined round the club, which is much wider at the top than at the -lower extremity. '.. In two openings formed by the fern leaves are two doves with 1 olive branches — taken from the national arms of Fiji. At the top of the club is the eight-barred Fijian crown, surmounted by its nine-pointed crosslet ; the whole, of solid silver,, frosted and burnished. At the lower end of the mace there is a circlet of pxidised silver, enriched with wreaths, fern leaves, and diminutive palm frees. Upwards of GOoz of silver have ".{been wed for the decoration of this mace, which is at once an appropriate and. very, beautiful emblem of the great change which civilisation is bringing about in i Fiji,. It is understood that this mace (for which a handsome case has been made) is to be sent down to Levuka by the Duke of Edinburgh, s.s, on her next trip*' ' - ' ! Mr William Gregory, a member of the ; Royal College- of Surgeons, England, and. a much respected old colonist, died rather ' suddenly at his residence, Lennox .street, Richmond, ..ythg deceased gentleman, was the son of Dr Uregdr^jpjrpprietbr -.of 'rhe' lunatic asylum, Belle Vue, near Dublin, and came to Victoria upwards of twenty yeawago. . •■' ••■<■<'■* v^w-ffi.-i

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