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Southland Times, Issue 1241, 29 April 1870, Page 3

A short time ago the Governor of New South Walea communicated with the Secretary of State for the Colonies with reference to the renovation of the silver currency in the colony. A reply has been received from Earl Granville to the effect that the Bank of England would be authorisedto receive silver coin on the applicafcion of the agents of the Colonial Government on the same conditions as those under which it receives it from persons resident in the home country. The result of this arrangement, remark the Mint officials, will no doubt be to increase the los 3 incurred by the Imperial Government on the receipt of worn silver, which now amounts to £15,000 a-year. A brutal assault was committed at Coleraine about 1 a.m. on the morning of the 14th, on Mr Gimter, at M'Conachie's station, three miles from this township, by two men who had been discharged from the station. They got into the room, and after dangerously assaulting him, dragged him out, 30 yards from the house, and left him for dead. Both the men were arrested within an hour of the occurrence by Police-constables Dempster and Mahon, and brought before the Bench to-day, when they were remanded for eight days, pending the result of the injuries inflicted on their victim, whose life is considered in great danger. We, M. A. Mail, a few days ago mentioned the death within seven days of three children from diphtheria, belonging to Mi Stewart, of Limestone Creek, and sympathise with the father in having to record the death of a fourth from the same malady. It need scarcely be said that the grief of the afflicted parents is hard to be borne, in thus having four children out of six, some of them near manhood and womanhood, swept away in twelve days, \