VICTORIA.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 213, 26 August 1862, Page 5

VICTORIA.

(fbou ook ows cokuesposdekt.) I . ll' '.bourne, 13th August. I Mr, Dufty delivered a lecture iat night at . Geeioug, on the Land question. People wondered ho h- he came to tlulk of the Pivot, and what induced him to go there to deliver a lecture at all. Mr. Duffy is patron of the Gcelong Itecreative Society, and under its auspice.?, and for its benefit, the lecture vus delivered. .Its object, no doubt, was to give an authoritative angwer to the calumnies that have been heaped upon the new Land Act by a portion ot the Pres?, and to show that the gigautic scheme of the " Miller and i his men" to buy up the agricultural areas was I grossly exaggerated. Mr. Duffy approached j something near an outrageously unbecoming 1 allusion, when lie contended bis law might be evaded, ior that •* th« highest of all Jaws—those delivered in thunder and lightning on Mount Siuai—are evaded every day." Having said that ' much, Mr. Dully thinks he "need not be told thai it will require constant vigilance to maintain thid new law even tolerably intact." This is certainly speaking very irreverently—and late on a Saturday uiyhi too.- It w perhaps an instance of v man -v dressed in a iiule brief authority, playing such fantastic tricks before high Heaven as makes the angels weep." The whole gist of Mr. Daily's lecture guea to show th t iaud societies ought to ha established, and he invites the people of every town and village in Victoria to establish la.id sodtetie-a'to take advantage of Ins new law. He uUu ies to Mr. Miller's scheme, and anyone reading hid lecture inuit come to this conclusion, that Mr. Dully is certain it a-m. be carried out in such a manner as will enable- a few rich shareholders to buy up very laige ureas, aud he is now a^'pai'untly auxkms to get, up small societies a** ainiiluco to the gigan;ic sctien c of " Money Miller." jlr. Duffy oitiy nukes matters worse, for, before iiis lecture we were in doubt as to whether the scheme ot Mr. Miller could be carried out. The hon. the President of tliu Board of Land 3 siad Works not only proves it can, but encourages i other societies. Now il small societies are lawiul, I and can settle b-m.tilcapitai:sts on sixty acres,surely large societies are equally legal, and can settle their nominees or shareholders on (540 acrc3, or even larger areas.. Mr. ihitfy pretends to think that tliu personal applications will deter the laive shareholders, but will faeihtatuthe settlement of the ainaU proprietor*. 'J his is absurd. la the latter case, fifty personal applications will require to be madw ; whilst in case ot v tpitalisL-i, five personal applications will be suJiicieut to take up an entire urea. But Mr. Miller's slircwdiicss, assisted by a very large capital, wJil,be quite a match ior ilr. Dulty and all his precautions.

A watch !us been sent out from the Rora! Geographical isuciety at home, under cover to his Kxc.-ilancy Governor Barkly, who will, to-night present it to the exploier King, Mr. Luudshorough v expected this evening-to give an ace-mint of his journey across the continent ir;>m the Gulf oi .Carpentaria to Meli'uuriie. Tij'j jury, in the case of the deceased John Turner, imvc, afctr nil, bot-u unable to agree, aud have been discharged. Aujtlier inquest will be he'd. The Coromantlel •joMiLM.i are beginning to exciie sonic atteniiou hir., and there is no doubt mat it* tilts reports co:iti:in -. favorable there will be v smail exodus irom Vitturia to that place, in addition tt» those wiio intend to re-visit Otago when the weather improves. \S re have news from Queensland of the discovery ol t-vo new rivers in that colony, and of an iuipen<iiu£ Ministerial etuis.