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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 217, 11 September 1872, Page 4

The Supbeme Court in Melbourne has awarded a policeman £500 damages for being tossed by a bull. The Melbourne Town Hall Organ has 79 stops and 4373 pipes. It is " blown " by three baudralic engines. It is rather remarkable the great depth at which miring is in some cases pursued in Victoria in quarlz mines. The New North Clunes has a shaft down 1024 feet, and is about to drive to test the reef, at that depth. The Magdala Company is down 950 feet, and it is believed that the reef will be struck some distance lower. This shaft will soon have cost the company £20,000 without a speck of gold having been seen. There is a statement that lhe first company that obtains gold at or below 1000 feet will receive a Government bonus of £1000. " Onlt Survivors." —We crossed the sandhills near the scene of the Indian mail robbery and massacre of 1856, wherein the driver and^ conductor perished, anii also all the passengers but one, it was supposed ; but this must have been a mistake, for at different times afterwards on the Pacific coast I was personally acquainted with a hundred and thirty-three or four people who were wounded during that massacre, and barely escaped with their lives. There was no doubt of the truth of it —l had ifc from his own lips. One of these parlies told me that he kept coming across arrow-heads in his system for nearly seven years after the massacre ; and another of them told me that he was stuck so literally full of arrows, that, after the Indians were gone, and he could rise up and examine himself, be could not restrain his tears, for his clothes were completely ruined. —From "Roughing It," by Mark Twain. A Valuable Ewe. —An instance of wonderful fecundity —perhaps the most remarkable on record —has just come to our knowledge. 'In a letter now lying before us, Mr George Angus, of Beeford Grange Lowthorpe, Hull (a practical agriculturist, well known beyond his own county), sayE:—"Last year one of my ewes of the Lincoln breed brought forth six lambs all living. I had great difficulty in persuading my neighbours to believe this, although the fact was quite clear and well attested. I gave her a private earmark, and last Michaelmas a separate red mark also. A 6 wesaw this spring that she was getting heavy, we kept her quite separate from the rest of the ewes, and last Thursday she produced another six lambs. Some of these will not survive as they are a few days before their proper time; but all are complete and well formed, and tha ewe is now suckling one Jamb." The special wonder about this woolly mother who seems determined to arrest, as far as she can, the deplorable decrease of sheep stock revealed by the " agricultural returns"-—is that she belongs to a breed in which it is rare,for aewe to drop more than three lambs, while good luck among the Lincoln flocks is " oae half pairs," with occasionally a " three."—Chamber of Agriculture Jot.rnal.