AUSRALIAN EXTRACTS.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 2, 10 July 1863, Page 3

AUSRALIAN EXTRACTS.

I The Hounds.— The liounds, under the natership of Mr Faris, put in an appearce oil Friday at Warrenheip. The place muster was a large paddock. Some fif y sixty sportsmen were pres-nt,' from illnvat, Learmonth, Smy h-esdale, and suhinyong. When the spoilsmen got rithin the posts and rails the gates were icked. while those who were late, of horn there were not a few arrived in ime to see the man go off »uh the keys. L dingo had been provided for the occaion* which w,as set -free on the right of ntpaddock. Op the hounds going away Ke great majority of the sportsmen maWed to clear the first Stiff railed fence, hilst a score or so waited their opporanitv and got the first rail down, and so ot over with safety to themselves .and orses. On taking up the scent of the iniro the hounds went at it ' like mad, nd happy was he who could keep pace rith them. Brush fences, quagmire*, and ■rentv-aore allotments were got over in of an eye ; but now a poser ibeared before the horsemen in the form • a stiff fence, which made many rein in ,cir steeds and cry "enough." Onward, owever, sped the master of the hunt, rith Daniel Webster, Blueskin, Rambler, nd half a dozen others, at his heels, ome twelve or fourteen who essayed to et over were left sprawling on mother Brth, among whom was a Geelong Nim>d mounted on a Ballarat fencer of no .can ability. Rambler and rider shortly ? ter came to grass, and the Jatter got a erv u°-ly spill, but in a moment was in ie saddle a^ain. Onward still sped the in«ro as straight nearly as the -crow flies, null coming to a creek, it turned to the ght'and faced for the station of Mr Bachus turning again to the front, across a )W swamp, where a dozen horses got bo^ed.and before they could extvicate them >lv'es from the puddle, hounds and horseien were out of sight. It was now bellows > mend with the majority of them, and j&e » field " was petting smaller. Tlie ■nlv persons and steeds up with or close So the hounds were the master of the hunt, ffilueskin, Rambler, Daniel Webster, Huriicane, Apelles, Budgeree, and a few others. »] ie (jingo now mrde a smart turn to the light, ami headed for the Buninyong Rail«rav Station, in the vicinity of which the Sounds lost all trace of the quarry, and ifter casting about for some time without Bny success, the pack was whipped off and Hie word " homeward " given. The disfcnee from start to finish was about twelve ffiiles, over a very indifferent country, Biickly studded with twenty-acre allotments, post and rail and brushwood fences, fed, withal, not the best under foot. The ■ewly appointed huntsman, who has been Ii the employment of the late Marquis of iVaterford, acquitted himself right well, fed -the run will long be remembered as Woe of the best with the Bailarat hounds %-Ballarat Star, 20th June. i A nugget -weighing 132 oz. l2dwt., has been »und in Red Jacket Flat, which runs down »om the Whipstick Scrub into Sydney Flat, its value is over £512. It was found by a hatter." who had long been unfortunate and ad only left the hospital a few days. The round where it lay had only been very parally prospected, though the sinking is only bout six feet, and t c locality is only two lilesfrom Eaglehawk. Red Jacket Flat is o great distance from the new " Seven Mile iit" rush, and both form part of that too mg deserfed district, the Whipstick. Eneratic prospecting — as our special goldfiekls sporter anticipated— begins to do wonders r old "Bendigo." .1 Mi lbourne Exchange.— Government have liken a lease for three years of the Meljburne Exchange buildings at an annual intal of LBOO. This -will pay a dividend of pc per cent, on the capital invested. There ma not been any uividend since the comtony was formed, ten years ago. It is profcsed to rent premises in some central part ■ Melbourne for an Exchange and readingftom, as a tempo rnry expedient, until another jLilding can be put up with borrowed money m a spare piece of ground adjoining the He3ent Exchange — Geehn / Adv r ise HGreat Destruction of Goods by the Ideensland Aborigines. — Writing irom Ikenn^nn Station, the correspondent of the m>c/champio?i Bulletin forwards to that joural the following extract of a letter received If him from a settler on the Burdekin. The friter says: — "I am unavoidably detained Ere in consequence of the severe loss I have ■stained by the blacks destroying the whole 1 my goods that were sent up by the Noah fie last trip, -which I estimate at £180. It »ms that my goods (some five or six tons) lire landed in good order at the landing .mcc ou the Burdekin. The same evening W water rose and overflowed the banks of w river, my goods being two or three feet ■PP in it. As bags of flour formed the lower ■*■> the damage by water v. ould have been ftnparatively trifling, as the flour could not ■ damage more than an inch round die bag, ; it it seems that as soon as the flood subBed the blacks mustered in considerable wee, broke up every case and box in the • Bice, ripped up all the flour, sugar, and rice ?s with the sheep shears, and emptied the itents in one vast heap, mixing the whole together, -with the contents of a tar drum, c, flour, salt, sugar, tea, and tar, and water, mixed up together, forming the remains my five or six tons of goods, the whole ng totally useless The sheep shears they Ike in two, and have carried away — thus ing them seventy-two steel knives — one of ich I recovered, and found the shade of the ar had been formed into a very formidable ipon. The tools sent up by the survey ty, the blacks have carried away, together h a cross-cut saw of my own, and a large rof blacksmiths' bellows Articles suite for weapons seems to be the only roods iy have taken away — the rest have been iberately damaged. Even the sugar they troyed — an article at least one would have cied they would have carried off. Cohen, bullock driver, and a party from Inkernn, went down to bringup the goods. They - nd the blacks at the landing place in great nbers, numbering not less than 200. They ned determined on mischief, and had it been for the fortunate circumstance of riding party returning at the time, the t. ock driver and his companion would un- -; btedly have fallen victims to the blacks, hey came near the dray at the time it was ged in a creek, armed and painted, with evident intention of killingthesetwo men." ijECTBIENT FROM A PRIMITIVE METHOi 1 Chapel. — A somewhat noteworthy s came before the Castlemaine Bench . «rday,viz., the Trustees of the PrimiMethodist Chapel, Lyttleton-street, v. •mas Blanchard, a holder of the chapel er a tenancy of £10 per annum. Mr. mond, barrister-at-law, instructed by Heron, appeared for complainants. The ,-; sndant did not appear, personally by solicitor. Mr. Raymond stated was an action for ejectment |;r Brewstei's Act. W. Cadwallaacting .as agent for the trustees of Primitive Methodist Chapel, Castleie, stated that on the 24th of April he served notice to quit the chapel on Mr. mas Blaiichard, who 'now holds possesin spite of that notice. The agreement it which the defendant entered on the "ißncy was produced in court, and service ;| )tice in dueform proved. Mr. Raymond ■i -d that the • defendant not appearing, -% ■ Worships might forthwith make an '■L i" of ejectment. Their Woi ships agreed Tf ordered a warrant to issue, to take effect i> mrtccn days. — Mount Alexander Mail'

Gold Digger's Impuovidench. — The early days of the diggings, when nuggets were said j to be strewn so thick on the surface that only a rake was required to gather them together, were noted likewise lor the wild ar,d reckle s, but often humorous, extravagance of the diggers, who could so easily possess themselves of the coveted metal. Putting a £10 bank note, between slices of breed and eating them like sandwiches, lighting the : .r pipjs with equally valuable pieces of paper, shouting to all hands dozens of crampapne at £1 a bottle, bucketsf ull of brandy, and br.rrels of beer, are some of the playful fancies tf the diggers of yore, but such acts could only have happened in a community where gold was to be had in | rimost boundless profusion. It was thought that the diggers had grown wiser — more careful of the earth's riches, because such things are seldon heard of now-a-days ; but the fact is the gold is scarcer, and therefore they are poorer. Give them the chance, and the old spirit of prodigality breaks out afresh. A little incident connected with the Sebastian rush shows this: — A pr.rty of Italivis, on striking gold in fn^ir claim, were go overcome by the extraordinrjy rich-ess of the yellow stieam which the pick had exposed to their view, that visions of untold wealth, of pound weights to the tub, of i; exhaustible treasures, floated before the a. Their drive had become a gonie's cave glittering with gold. In their excitement they hurriedly scraped out a dishful of the golden earth, but on getting to the top of their shaft they found it necessary to calm their throbbing pulse with the eau de vie, and immediately made for the nearest grog shanty. Before long most of them were almost helplessly drunk, and muttering incoherently about the richness of their claim. The one with the dishful of washdirt, however, managed to wash the stuff, and the result was a bright and beautiful sample of rough nuggetty g.>ld, about -liree ounces in weight. The differs gathered round gazing at the gold, and congratulated tlie lucky j owners on their ~ood fortune One of the mates, an Englishm . :i, jolly, devil-may-care ana half-seas over, advanced to have a look, apparently satisfied with ihe display, thoughtlessly, and with a merry twinkle in his eye, and suiting the action to the word, he swung his arm and struck the dish up into the air ; " Curse the gold," he said, " there's plenty more in the hole." A shower of gold fell on those arouud, and theie was a general scramble for the glittering dro; 3, which quickly disappeared into the p:\kets of the pickers-ur, md as they retired they could be heard talking about what fools some people were. — Ecnd'go Ad.c.ylser, 22nd June. Chlnsse Gardners. — Surely ihe Chinese are by nature cut eutfor gardeners. Theirpatience is inexhaustible. In the face of the greatest difficulties they persevere boldly ana push ahead. Let those who delight in seeing a thriving garden visit that at the Back Creek, or those at the White Hills, and they will be amply repaid for their visit. The luxuriance of the growth of their vegetables I is truly surprising. The Chinese, too, seem j always to have a full crop ready for sale, and even in the heat of summer, they supply our market. Tkis is, no doubt, owii gto the immense quantities of water they uso in their gardening operations. Another great point in their general success — in a financial point of view — is, that they generally have a number of salesmen, who carry their produce to market in baskets, thus saving the expense of horse keep. Industry with the Chinese on the goldrields is proverbial, and when once they locate on a spot for gardening purposes they never flag in their exertions till they have made what would otherwise be a barren-looking spot a well-worked and pro line garden. Each yeav they add to their space of ground, until such time as they have a sufficiency under cultivation, when "John" I seems satisfied, for his plot is an unfailing source of revenue to him — Bcndigo Inde- j pendent, 23rd June. I Still Life at Gisboune.— A correspondent of the West Bourlce Chronicle, describing Gisborne, draws an exquisite picture of still life. " Our business men, dull, inanimate and listless, opening their eyes with an efFort. to pour dreamingly over the leader in the Argus on its daily arrival, or creeping lazily to the post office to askina desponding tone forletters; spending the rrst of the day gazing with unspeculative eyes from their shop doors into vacancy, and looking at the iew customers who drop in during the day, rather us bores. Our tradesmen, without hope or energy, working half tluir time, and loafing about, or growling at their unfortunate wives the other half. Our public bodies dragging weari;) 1 along without doing a single benefit to the community, or originating a single idea for the public weal. Our local institutions gradually declining." After all this woeful picture comes the rempdy. "Let the male population proeecd in solemn procession to the Bridge Inn, aid bathe in the mineral waters ; next, join hands andhe. r -i t, and tr.ke a solemn vow to raise the place of their habitation to the position it ought naturally to occupy, sink all differences of creed and country, and form a new society of Gisborneites, with ' Energy' for a motto ; make it a capital offence for any one to introduce private feud, jealousy, or quarrel, in any movement for the general good ; urge by every public and private means the fitness of our mountain streams for manufactures ; the beauty of our scenery, and salubrity of our climate; test the Kaolin found at our doors, dig for gold, search for slate, sell the police paddock for orchards, or farms; bully government into building a bridge at the toll, do anything rather than sit in despair lamenting dull times."