VICTORIA.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 36, 23 August 1864, Page 3

VICTORIA.

By the Alhambra we ! have,,-. -Melbourne intelligence up to the 15th: inst.) The annual -ploughing "match of the Port Phillip Farmers' Society came off bri. the 10th, at the farm of Mr. J. E. Boadle,. Prospect Hill. ,£_ier<ei W&oe twenty-eight-competitors:, Wnliam~\R.itchie won" the first prize of £7. . : I . At tlie • adj ourned ; half-yearly 1 meeting of the Minnii Coal Company, fit trans- ' pired that the approximate loss| on the operations of the company up to the 30th June last was £310,000. "It was -resolved, that a committee should be app6inted°£o examine the books ' and report generally on the affairs of the company. ) The Age says :— " At the date of the departure of the last mail, the, ship, Merchantman was at Portsmouth, talcing on board convicts for Australia. Amongst the prisoners who will be taken by this ship is the notorious "William BoupeH, the forger, and ex-M.P." The same journal is responsible for the following :— " Mr. G-. V. Brooke, the tragedian, is on his last legs, in no metaphorical sense, we should imagine. The gold and silver plate, presented at various times to this gentleman by his admirers, was disposed of by auction, in London, on the Bth of June last. The whole realised about £300." The Melbourne Criminal Sessions were to commence on the 18th. The calendar was not a heavy one. Ths Age says: — "Some bank notes have recently made their appearance, which have been subjected to a curious process of manipulation. They have been split into equal halves, and the back halves of five-pound notes have been found pasted to the front halves of one-pound notes, thus giving the latter, on a partial view, the appearance of the former. The object of this dexterous experiment remains to be seen, for, strange to say, although these one-pound notes have thus given to them the appearance of five-pound notes, no attempt appears as yet to have been made to put them into circulation." Eoberts, the champion billiard player, concluded his matches at the Albion on Saturday, the 13th inst. His last game was with Lamb, the Victorian champion, to whom he gave 500 points out of 1,000. The contest occupied nearly four ho\vrs, and terminated in a victory for Lamb, the score at the finish standing — Lamb, 1,000; Eoberts, 622. Eoberts proceeds to Ballaarat, and thence to Sydney. A brutal outrage has been committed at G-lengower. The Daylesford Express says : — A warrant has been issued for the apprehension of G-eorge Culvanor, on a charge of commiting a rape upon a girl called Knight, at G-lengower, on the 10th inst. The girl is about eleven years of age, and the daughter of a man (since dead) who was once in the employ of Captain Hepburn as a shepherd. It is said that the girl was in the bush, at a little distance from home, playing with some other children. Thereupon Culvanor came by with some cattle, and having inveigled the girl away from her companions, committed the offence. The girl then went home and told her mother, who, without delay, gave information to the police at Newstead. Culvanor is a married man, with a large family." The Age says : — " "We learn that Mr. TJrquhart has commenced an action for libel against the Argus. Damages are laid at £10,000.