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New Zealand Mail, Issue 29, 12 August 1871, Page 4

Graphic. —A vigorous description of some woman that is wanted is thus given in the terse language of the Victorian “Police G-azette” : — { Emily Robinson, alias Taylor alias the Flying Engine, is charged, on warrant, with vagrancy, by the Avenal Bench. English (the calling is here given but we omit it), 35 years of age, 5 feet 5 or 6 inches high, slender build, brown hair, face blotched and bloated from drink, apparently from her conversation to have been well-educated. She is notorious,'when excited, for knocking people over the head, with the first weapon she can pick up. G-one to Seymour and Kilmore, amongst the men working on the railway.” G-beyhoundb. —The ship Borrowdale which arrived in Hobson’s Bay recently from Liverpool, ha 3 brought out three fine thoroughbred greyhounds, with first-class pedigrees. The Old and New Ministries oe Victoria. —The reception of the new Ministry at the Sandhurst banquet was a most hearty one. Mr Duffy, in his speech, made some effective allusions to his opponents, and “ brought down the house” by saying that it would be as impossible to restore Sir James M‘Culloch to power at the present time as to replace Napoleon on the throne of France,