TASMANIA.

Southland Times, Issue 1170, 24 November 1869, Page 5

TASMANIA.

Hobabt Town, November 8. Information has been received of young salmon having been seen rising in great numbers below the falls at New Norfolk

' every morning for some days pist. Largo numbers from town intend to visit (he ! locality to-morrow. | A telegram lias been received stating that the English tencU have grown so plentiful in the lagoou at the Nile that it has been found necessary to kill many. November 10. The whaler Callao, of New Bedford, out four years, with 1500 barrels, has put in for supplies. The captain reports speaking the Onward, of Sydney, last month, with 18 tuns ; and the Argo, irom Victoria. Lattnceston, November 10. Dr Harbro, a medical practitioner at Fingal (well known as surgeon in clipper ships between Melbourne and Liverpool or London), has been committed for trial for a nameless offence. The orphan Barnett, who was rescued from drowning duriug the Tauiar's last trip, was sent this morning to some relatives at Hobart Town. Hobart Town, Nov. 12. The markets are very dull. Wheat ia 6s 6d. Flour, £15. Potatoes, £3. Gooseberries, 5s per busliel. Launceston, Nov. 12. Encouraging reports are being daily received from the Waterhouse. There will be no active operations until the machinery is erected. Hobart Toww, No\. 15. Brown trout have been caugtu m Bagdad Creek lOin. long. The Governor returned from his northern tour to-day. The Chief Justice retires at the end of this year, and will be succeeded by Mr Attorney- General Dobson. November 13. An aged man named Perkins, for* merly a publican at Hobart Town, has been taken into custody on a charge of murdering his wife, at Bridgewater. Breadstuffs are firmer.