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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume III, Issue 194, 15 November 1872, Page 6

.The following telegram from the distressed r miners at Port Darwin has ."been received by the Chief Secretary of toria,:—" Port Darwin, 23rd October 1872.—0ne hundred and fifty Victorian miners here. No gold in the country. Destitution certain to prevail. Have offered ; £SOO (aUthe money men possess) towards chartering Bengal. ' Ship requires £I3OO to Melbourne. Adelaide Government 'refuses assistance. Will Victorian Government assist to .take their miners back? Adelaide ..Government offer is riot sufficient-to keep the families left- in Victoria—4s 6d per" day, without rations. Committee :t ■ James Tardy, Ross. K Macartney. .James Bell." Mr. Francis has forwarded, the following reply :—" This Government regrets the position of applicants,' but cannot bring back to Victoria all-persons who may enter on enterprises without due con-sideration.-^-J.G.F." Soothing syrups 'are ' said ' to kill 120,000' American infants annually. , The "Green ■ Bay 'Post-Office officials don't like to answer questions. The following posted over the general delivery window expresses their sentiments: —Price of three,cent stamps, three cents each,; licked and struck, five cents each; the clock will answer the question, "Ksis the mail closed? 13 There are said to be 7500 bar-rooms in New, York. . The 'Christchurch Star of the 24th :sa ys :—"Large numbers of • children suffering from whooping.cough are taken thrice a week to the Gasworks, for the I purpose of inhaling the atmosphere of the purifying room, which is said to | have; a benficial effect. On Monday 'nearly severity children were present!"