INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 4121, 5 June 1874, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

o VICTORIA. The mail has brought intelligence that the Right Eev. Goold, Roman Catholic Bishop of Melbourne, who is at present on a visit to Rome, has been created an archbishop. The present diocese of Melbourne, which comprises the Colony of Victoria, is, it is stated, to be divided into five dioceses, the respective headquarters of which will be at Melbourne, Ballarat, Sandhurst, Warrnambool, and Sale. These sees will form a new ecclesiastical province, to be called the province of Melbourne, and of which Archbishop Goold and his successors will be the metropolitans. The bishops for the newly-created sees have, it is understood, been nominated, but their final appointment by the Pope has not yet been made. There is some doubt as to whether they are English or Colonial clergymen, but the probability is that thero will be an admixture. Dr. Fitzpatrick, the VicarGeneral of Melbourne, Dean Moore, Ballarat, and Father Hoyne, of Keilo, are mentioned in connection with the episcopal appointments, but we cannot say with what authority. The last-named rev. gentleman has the reputation of jhigh attainments. Our London telegram announces that Dr. O'Connor is to be the bishop of Ballarat, and that Dr. Fortune is to preside over the see of Sandhurst. It is also stated that the Holy See will give Dr. Goold archiepiscopal jurisdiction over the dioceses of South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia, and the district of North-western Australia presided over by bishop Sallardo, while the Archbishop of Sydney will retain his authority over the various dioceses of New South Wales, Queensland, and a part of Oceanica. A few days ago a thief entered the Detective Office in Melbourne while a charwoman was cleaning it out, and stole a coat belonging to a detective, the woman supposing that he was a member of the force. The coat contained the detective's memorandum-book, and, of course, his private notes. It was stated, at a late meeting of the proprietors, that the cost of the new Theatre Royal in Melbourne had been over £30,000. The profit for the past half-year on the paid-up capital, however, had been at the rate of over twenty per cent, per annum. Some extraordinary schedules are occasionally filed in the Insolvency Court. This one (says the Aye) is a sample : —Thomas Blythe's insolvency has been caused by sicknses in his family and want of employment. Blythe, who is a carter by trade, has received advances from a friend in Ilobart Town; to whom he has given accceptances to the value of £l3l Is. sd. This friend has endorsed them to a person in Melbourne. Mr. Blythe has no other creditors at all; his butcher and baker are paid in fact every one, except the Hobart Town friend. His house expenses for the two years previous to the date of his petition have amounted to £7. He has no furniture or property of any kind except £1 in cash, and he has had no losses. Fieldhouse's paper mill at Prince's bridge has changed hands, Messrs. Halfey and Brookes having become the purchasers. The new proprietors intend to erect more machinery, and to go into the manufacture of paper on an extensive scale. The foolish manner in which, some people hold out a premium to thieves by traversing the streets of Melbo\ime at night with large sums of money in their possession, says the Argus, was brought under the notice of the police at about midnight of Wednesday, and but for the judicious conduct of a member of the force, a large robbery from the person would probably havo beer, reported 'by this time. At about the hour named Senior-con-stable Ryan noticed a man in an oyster Baloon in Lonsdale Street, and made a remark as to the expression of his countenance to the saloon-keeper. The man came out and asked the constable to have "a bottle of champagne, or something of that sort." On Ryan declining, the man said, "Don't suppose I can't pay for it. Now how much money do you suppose I've got on me?" The constable confessed that he was no medium. " Why," said the man, " I've got £1,400 in my pocket." Ryan took him to a respectable hotel, where, in presence of the landlord, the man drew forth a heavy canvas bag full of sovereigns, which caused an exclamation. "Hold on," cried the man of money, " that's not all—look here," and diving into the folds of his raiment he drew out a huge roll of bank-notes. The senior constable and the landlord then took the man to his lodgings, and gave him into the charge of the lodginghouse-keeper. The Judges of the Supreme Court have ordered the attachment of a sum of £IO,OOO, belonging to Mr. Mitchell (of Mitchell and Bonneau, merchants), who is now in England, to satisfy an order for aliment at the rate of £SO per month to his ■wile. Mr. F. T. Sargood has been elected for the Central Province, in room of the Hon. John O'Shanassy. The voting stood : Sargood, 2407; A. K. Smith, 1075.

A trial of strength is going on in the newlyeleeted Victorian Parliament. An amendment to the address was moved by Mr. J. S. Grant, and seconded by Mr. G. P. Smith. The letter is so unpopular, that his intrusion into a foremost position in the Opposition will most likely save the Ministry. The consecration of the new church of our Lady of Mercy, at Geelong, took place on the 23rd of May. The new building adjoins the Catholic Convent. High Mass was performed by Dr. Fitzpatrick, Vicar-General, and Archdeacon Slattery. Father Kelly preached the sermon. The building cost .-£SOOO. There was a large attendance, and the funds were augmented by the service and subscriptions by a sum of ,£3OO. The work was begun and finished through the energy of Superioress M'Guire, formerly of Bagot Street, Dublin. The first train ran from Castlemaiue to Carisbrook on Monday, the 25th ult. The rails will be laid through to Maryboi'oucrh in a few weeks. A grain dealer at Wangaratta named Dixon lately failed for a sum of £38,000. The estate was expected to pay about 7s. 6d. in the pound. A fanner named Jackson Orr, who had given accommodation bills to Dixon, believing himself ruined through them, from drowned himself in a lagoon near his hoxise, where the body was found a few days afterwards by his wife • The well-known racehorse Glencoe has lately changed hands at the price of seven hundred guineas. At the Volunteer Keview on the Queen's Birthday, the troops engaged numbered ISOG. There were about ten thousand spectators on the ground. His Excellency and Lady Bowen were present. In the early part of the day his Excellency held a levee, which was very numerously attended. A " History of Victoria," from its earliest colonisation down to the end of the year 1871, has been undertaken by Mr. G. D. Macartney, L.L.D. It will embrace the political and social, as well as the industrial rise of the Colony. The work is nearly completed, and arrangements have been made for its publication. It is to be illustrated with portraits of the more illustrious among the founders and prominent men of the Colony.