MELBOURNE EXTRACTS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 110, 24 March 1862, Page 5

MELBOURNE EXTRACTS.

This Rtchhst Si'oT in tup, Would. —We lca-H fro ii til-; TiiiTOisMwer Timris that Cm: ci:»im of Crystal, IVftitt and Co,, on Nuggetty llec-f, is thirty nine (3 >) feet three (3) inches in length the 10-'.fi fourteen fe't thick at its widest part, and thn present workings are ;it t.inn; hundred ami eighty (380) frut from tliusiirf:ii;e. From this small portion of ground over twenty-five thousand (25,000) oumvs ot srold have been taken and there is every prospect Oi the claim continuing rich. The run ot gokl had never The Ili-England cricket match at Beudigo promises to be an easy victory for the Eleven. In their first innings the iinglish players obtained 270 runs, while the twenty-two were disposed ot lor el runs, and on being put in again they lost four wickets tor nine. C iftyu heads the score with 57; Bennett obtained 50, and H. H. Stephenson, whom fortune has been treating more kindly oi late than has been tier wont in the colonies, did not retire for less than 4/. The Tweutv-two were deficient in bowling, and their fielding appeals to have been below mediocrity.— Age, At' Sohier's exhibition in Bourke-street, Melbourne, Melville, the notorious captain, or leader ot the gang that murdered the late Mr. Price, is reprcsentwl with a sharp pointed spoon in his left hand, with which he made a desperate assault upon Governor Wiutie, of the Melbourne Gaol. A dioei c in sheep, almost new to the law courts hero, bm, unfortunately becoming better, known each ■year to thu «ettlers—the rot—was submitted for the second time to the consideration of a jury last week. Early in 1859, a station on the Avoca was sold with a warranty that the sheep were free from disease, and damages" were now sought, on the ground that _aj the time of sale some of the sheep were aiiected with the rot or "fluke," as the disease in .this case was termed Two or three months after tha time ot sale one of the purchasers discovered the fluke in tlu* livers of a few of the sheep, and since then numbers had to be sold at a low price in the attempt to get rid ot it; and the jury have now awarded the plaintiffs a large part of the damages claimed, although _the evidence was very contradictory, and a former jury could not arrive at a decision. This ease is of importance to all buyers and sellers of sheep, in showing that they must take this disease, as well as the old ones, into account for the future, in giving or receiving a warranty of soundness.