AUSTRALIANS ITEMS.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume I, Issue 15, 20 June 1863, Page 1 (Supplement)

AUSTRALIANS ITEMS.

The squatters of the Murray, Murrumbidgee, Edwards, and surrounding districts are now agitating for separation from New South Wales. Meetings have been held at their head quarters, Deniliquin, and subscriptions, liberal in the extreme, have poured in to aid in carrying out the object. The name proposed for the new colony is Riverina, and the prime mover in the affair is G. S. Lang, Esq., a well-known and highly-influential colonist. Time will show whether this new conservative separation party are able to effect their object. In New South Wales the scab among the sheep has now become so prevalent that the most stringent measures are being adopted, to carry out the Preventiou Act to the very letter. Already several squatters have sold out, rather than incur the risk of losing their all at the stake, the compensation money allowed by the Government not beiug considered sufficiently remunerative for the emergencies of the case. Destruction of Diseased Sheep.—l4oo sheep, originally from the Liverpool Plains districts, the property of Mr. Charles Yorke, have been destroyed on the Western road, by burning. The man recently apprel'ended at Horsham— John Montford, alias Welsh—on the charge of robbing the mail and assaulting the mailman, near Mount Gambier, on the 27th of March last, has been committed by the police magistrate of Penola for trial. He was identified as the man who fired at the mailman. —Argus. Libel.—The importance of paying attention to little words has been shown in an action, brought by Mr. Moorhead against the Age newspaper. The Age published a letter from Mr. Cropper, reflecting on Mr. Moorhead. In one paragraph, the writer stated, "I have a dishonored cheque of Mr. Cropper's; this should have been I had, that is once had—a dishonored cheque, &c." Partly through this mistake the plaintiff's business fell off, and it was to recover compensation that the action was brought. The proximate cause of the correspondence which led to the action was a row among the stockbrokers, which a little time since took place. The jury found for the plaintiff, damages, £450. Rather a sweet sum for a printer's error. VICTORIAN MINING INTELLIGENCE. The Mount Greenock Lead.—Events which occur every week fully bear out the remark we have often made in these colums, thai :he Mount Greenock plain will yet prove to hold the richest lead of gold opened in this district. Up to the present time the rich ground has only been found by the Black Ball and the All Nations, but there can be no doubt that, were miners to take up claims beyond the ground held by these companies, their success would be on a par with that of the two companies we have named. The week before last, it will be remembered, the Black Ball obtained over twenty-three ounces of gold out of eight loads of dirt; since then they have taken out in one week 51b. 7oz. lOdwt. of gold, the product of about sixteen loads of washdirt. There is every reason to believe that the ground the company is now testing is as good, and that a really rich lead is at length about to be disclosed. The ground which the All Nations Company are driving through promises to pay almost as well as that of the Black Ball, and as they have cut through 100 feet of the lead without finding the opposite side, it is fair to presume that the auriferous deposit will prove to be very wide.—Talbot Leader. Two hundred ounces of gold have been obtained from thirteen tons of quartz, taken from Adams' Reef, Builarook, near Creswick, at a depth of 175 feet.—Argus. The mining surveyor of the Indigo division, Beechworth district, reports that the new reef at Barrambogle is very promising. In every particle of stone gold is plainly discernible, whilst some of the specimens are literally covered with gold. So confident are the discoverers of the value of the reef, that they consider their claim of 100 yards worth £20,000.-76^.