INTERCOLONIAL.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 177, 26 July 1872, Page 6

INTERCOLONIAL.

CHRISTCHTJRCH.. Stringent precautions are being taken against small-pox. Quarantine regulations are to be stric fcly enforced. A great many people are being vaccinated. • OAMARTJ. The Government steamer Luna has just arrived to take the Hon. IT. J. Miller to Wellington. He has consented to join the Ministry with Mr. Hall. Both go in strongly for retrenchment of expenditure. AUCKLAND.

Tiie barque. Novelty has arrived from Sydney, with, dates to the 13th July. She reports that the s.s.Hero arrived at Newcastle on July 7th. A passenger on, board being ill with small-pox, the Government. placed the vessel in quarantine, which was to last for three weeks. The; Hero was allowed to finish coaling, but no one on board .was .permitted. to communicate with! the shore. Unfortunately many persons went on board during the morning. One or two visite 1 the invalid, and are since at large. The name of the patient is Joseph Sutcliffe. He was a steerage passenger to Melbourne. He visited the eating-house in Auckland in which a man died from small-pox a few days prior to the sailing of the- Hero. The symptoms showed themselves when the steamer was two days out. Sutcliffe has since ■ lied.

The Theatre Royal is closed and leased as a produce store. The Grreen Harp shaft has been pumped out, and the lower.drives inspected.; The report of the* new- manager is more favorable.' The Caledonian crushing for a week is lLOOozs.; the Moanatairi, for a fortnight; Kuranui, 200ozs. for a fortnight.

The share market is active. Caledonians, £27 ; Moanatairi, £6 ; Central Italian, 355. - The 'Auckland Star' states that when Thompson died.of small-pox, Dr. Phi!son laid him in the coffin and nailed dowu the lid without any assistance, and in order to prevent the possibility of contagion, took water and scrubbed the infected house in every part.

Poor Morton (says the 'Times'' Auckland correspondent) late inspector of Otago Police, died at tile Asylum. His mind had. utterly gone. Generally, his complaint caused morbid melancholy, but at times he would get into passions, so violent that res traint became necessary. Gradual exhaustion ended in a quiet and merciful death, which was in this case the only release possible, Many old friends in Otago will sympathise respectfully and sincerely with his widow, left with a young family on an isolated. cotton plantation in [Fiji. MELBOURNE. Four undoubted cases of. small-pox exist here. The patients have been isolated; and every precaution taken to prevent access to them. The first case was one of the passengers by the flero on her last trip from Auckland. The house occupied, by James, at Long Gully, where the small-pox broke out, was only thirty feet square, and was tenanted by fourteen persons, none of

vrhom were vaccinated. Another ieath of ia child is reported, making two altogether. The patients are isolated in a special building! Ships trorn New South Wales are to be placed in qua-? rantine. It is . probable that a Bill amending the Vaccination Act will be introduced, -making it an offence to conceal the nature of the disease, and enforcing compulsory vaccination in the outlying districts. : King of the iiing is freely backed for the Sydney Derby, and Cyclops for the Metropolitan. Small-pox is spreading. Other cases are reported at Eaglehawk. Most stringent precautionary measures have been adopted'at Sandhurst. There are at present six adults and three children in the Sanatorium at Long Grully. A third child belonging to Mr. James's family is dead. Mrs.: liobertson, an elderly w,o.man, is dangerously ill. The spread of the disease is causing great consternation, especially in the neighborhood of Sandhurst. Most of the schools have been dismissed. A later date says that no,fresh cases are reported, and the excitement has quite subsided, . Those who contracted the disease are progressing favorably. Seventeen miners from South Australia have proceeded to the Maryborough (Queensland) copper mine. A proposal is on foot to erect a new theatre at Greelong, with a capital of £IOOO.

A farmer named Jones was found dead at Moolart. It is supposed that he committed, suicide . through disappointed love. BRISBANE. A -proclamation has been published to the effect that the small-pox having been, imported into Sydney, Victoria, and "New Zealand, all vessels from thence must stop at the hulk Proserpina at the river bar, and no passengers will be allowed to land uutil tbe vessel has been boarded by the health officer, and admittted to pratique. The Young A ustralia has broken up. SYDNEY. Considerable excitement prevails respecting smali-pox. Dr. Paterson writes to the £ W\dney Morning Herald - stating that variola, in a mild form, existed there two mouths ago, he himself having treated several cases. . ... ADELAIDE. ■The Koh-i-noor has been wrecked near Tasmania She is insured in the Mercantile for £ISOO. SINGLETON. A valuable tin mine has been discovered. 1500 acres are secured. Assay: 71 per cent.