MULTUM IN PARVO. (From late Australasian Papers.)

New Zealander, Volume 3, Issue 161, 15 December 1847, Page 3

MULTUM IN PARVO. (From late Australasian Papers.)

Legs of mutton of the finest description arc advertised at the Bavivan (Geelong) melting establishment at 6d. each.— A dispensary ii in course of formation at Hobart Town j Sir William Denison has become the patron. The Town Council of Melbourne are about to take the various routes proposed for steam communication with England into their consideration in order that they muy address the Government on the subject,—The total quantity ol" land (or which grants have been issued in Western Australia is 1,315 454 acres. — A quantity of goods of Chinese manufacture, shipped at the produce of Van Diemen'i Land, were seized by the customs tit Melbourno last week ; no names are mentioned in the papers. — Meetings to protest against the proposed removal of penal e&tnb« lishment from Sydney to Van Deimen's Land have been held in every district in that colony. — A drunken quarrel, between some bullock drivers and native blacks, took place at Bunningong, in the Geelong district, which ended in the death of one of the former and two of the latter; the particulars have not been received.— The South Australian Company hate directed their colonial, manager to make gratuitous grants of land for religious purposes, such asrhurche*, manses, schools, &c— The journeymen tniiori of Hobart Town have been guilty of some most riotous proceedings, in consequence of a man not belonging to their trades-union having been employed b> a master ; eight of the ringleaders were in custody. — The Melbourne Town Council have parsed a vote of thanks to Mr. Moor, for his conduct as Mayor during the past year. — Seven vessels from Sydney having been signalled at Launceston at one time, it was feared that the Government had sent down «* the Cockatoo Infernal* " without waiting for further instructions —•The Geelong editor* call time town the '• commercial capital "of Port Phillip.— A man name. l Gower, convicted of attempting to murder a woman was executed at Hobuit Town on the '21st November. — Mr. Smith, farmer -Adelaide, is reported to have clipped " ons of his fattest ewes "of a (l<jecc weighing ten pounds and a half. Herald Dec 4. A Nuw Setilembnt. — Sir R. I. Murchison, nt Oxford in the Geographical section, read an account from Colonel Colquhoun, of the Auckland Isles, ten degrees south of Mew Zealand, which are to be the centre of the Southern Whale Fishery. Their present inhabitants are rats and sea birds, "he fertile soil is of decomposed basalt. The ulandi are well wooded, and the encouragement is good. A remark was made in the same section which is of some importance to settlers in a new country, that buildings erected over tertiary strata.sufFer more from eaithquukesthen tho^e which have secondary or igneous mosuata beneaih the soil on which they stand.