INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.
VICTORIA. Thomas "Webb Draper has been ac- \ quitted on the charge of embezzling the ■ funds of the Commercial Bank. Mr Enoch Chambers has been killed 1 by the unsetting of a buggy. \ Mr "Wintle, formerly the G-aoler, is , dead, as also ia Mr Kaye, the amateur i billiard player. 1 Mr Taylor, the Baptist minister, has '. been convicted of fraud. Sentence is [ deferred until the resulfc of the points i reserved is known. Some ]New Zealand cheese exhibited : at Mr M'Caw's show was greatly admired. The loaf cheese of Messrs Wood and Cunningham of Christchurch, was much , commended. Miss Docy Stewart has retired from the stage. The Council of the University have negatived the motion making chemistry i a subject of examination previous to matriculation. Bathurst, the notorious swindler, has been convicted of obtaining money under false pretences, and has been sentenced to three years' imprisonment. Ah Pew, the Glenluce murderer, has been sentenced to death. A large fire has occurred at Ararat, by which several houses, hotels, and shops have been burned. Mr Charles Mathews continues to draw crowded houses. Mr W. J. T. Clarke ba« been elected Chairman of the Bank of Victoria. Charles Vertelli, the acrobat, broke his leg while performing at Ballarat. A case of rather peculiar importance to volunteers was brought before the Emerald Hill Police Bench on the 30fch ult. Andrew Lillie, described as a gunner in the Emerald Hill Artillery, was charged, under the 38th section of the Criminal Statute, with assaulting Henry Krone, who is major of the same corps. The Volunteer act of Victoria not providing for any such occurrence, the offender was not arraigned under the Mutiny Actj which provides the penalty of death for such offenders; and, judging from the issue of the trial, he may congratulate himself on the fact. He was sentenced to one month's imprisonment with hard labor. The ceremony of proclaiming the Boyal Arcade open for public business took place on the 2nd. This building, commenced some eleven months ago, and erected on land running from Bourkestreet to Little Collins-street, purchased in 1839 for the sum of £iO, has just been completed, from designs furnished by Mr "Webb, architect. The value of the land at the present time may be estimated from the fact that the proprietor offered for an adjoining allotment the sum of £400 per foot. A further warrant was to be applied for on the 9th on behalf of the Commercial Bank against Draper, under the 88th section of the Trusts Act. The case would probably come on for hearing at the police court on the 11th. Mr Fellows and Mr Adamson have received retainers for the bank. __„.-■— __ . Mr Kobert de~ Bruce Johnstonewas on the sth elected for Geelong West by a majority of 308 over his opponent, Mr J. E. Hopkins. The contest excited very little interest, even in the district. The Qeelong Advertiser relates that no fewer than ninety persons put in applications on Friday evening for the vacancy caused by the absence of Mr W. F. Sayers, the late town clerk of INewtown and Chilwell. Some time ago this council rejoiced in the name of the " model one." So well is the business arranged in committee that useless discussion has always been avoided. It was no wonder, therefore, that several of the members turned pMe when the mayor, after having announced that the next business would be to consider the applications for the office of town clerk, went to a cupboard and abstracted therefrom parcels, letters, etc., enough to fill a decent-sized barrow. Councillor Ibbotson acted as croupier, and the mayor read aloud the most salient features of the various applications. Some of these were very funny. Several applicants gave their ages — they forgot to speak about their good looks ; but one gentleman hinted that he was a retired military officer, thirty-three years of age, was up to everything, and had a family of eight children. Had he completed the picture by stating the color of his teeth and hair, his application would doubtless have met with a most favorable consideration. Joking apart, there were applications from volunteer majors, grocers' assistants, town clerks innumerable, actuaries of savings banks, registrars, county court clerks, accountants, a manager of Turkish baths, journalists, engineers, surveyors, vignerons, an exjustice of the peace, a ci-devant collector for a newspaper, who thought the fact of his being able to collect for a newspaper was a clear proof that he could cause reluctant ratepayers to pay up freely ; printers, lawyers' clerks, architects, an ex-member of the Royal Irish Constabulary, who enclosed a printed book full of recipes, i.e., testimonials, and a host of representatives of other trades and professions, not even excepting the legal one. The members of the council gazed with astonishment at the bill of fare which was placed before them. An inquiry into "the circumstances attending the death of Mr Enoch Chambers was held at Oakleigh, by Dr Toul, the city coroner, on the 3rd. Dr James Martin deposed that he was called to see deceased about 7 o'clock on Sunday evening, and found him still alive ; but he died in a few minutes. There were externally no marks of violence. The chest had been so compressed by the seat of the vehicle in which he was driving that breathing was impossible. The cause ( of death was suffocation from external pressure upon the chest. "William Chambers stated that deceased was his father, and was fifty-three years of age. He left Melbourne to go to a farm he had at Warree Warree, and was to have returned on Sunday night. He
was driving his own horse, which was i quiet one. Isaac Corben stated that oi Saturday afternoon last he left Mcl - boure with the deceased, who was driving 3 his own howe and vehicle. He went t< spend the Sunday on deceased's farm I near Dandenong. They reached there al right, and left for their return on Sundaj i afternoon. When they got to the r grave hotel they took up George Wilka and when they "arrived at Oakleigh it wae i dark. After they got some little distance i from Oakleigh, the deceased turned of! i the metal road and drove along the side of it. The deceased drove in this man- . ner for some distance, when suddenly the , vehicle was upset at a cutting, and the ; occupants were thrown put. Witness got up at once, and saw that the buggy was turned quite over, and that deceased was under it lying on his face, with the seat of the vehicle resting on his back. i ; Witnesa and Mr W.ilks at . once went to his assistance, extricated him, and carried him to the hotel as quickly as possible; Deceased never recovered consciousness. t George Wilks gave corroborative evidence to the last witness, stating in addition that there were no lights to the vehicle, and that the deceased had perfect command over his horse. The jury returned a verdict of accidental death. Besieged and besiegers have once more changed positions in the " battle of the Haymarket." A ferocious-looking halfbred mastiff, a bull pup, a trustee, and rival lessees have again been engaged in a fray. It will be present in the memory of our readers that on a recent occasion the representatives of Messrs Harwood and Co., believing themselves entitled to the possession of the Haymarket Theatre in virtue of the renewal of a lease, entered forcibly into part possession of the theatre, and Mr Sullivan, as the " only trustee in the colony," held the other moiety in possession. Matters have remained in this state for about a fortnight, both parties regarding each other silently from their entrenched positions. The last escapade, however, apart from the legal rights of parties, is worthy of being recorded. The representatives of Messrs Harwood and Co., as lsssees, held the stage, pit, dress-circle, and back entrance ; and the representatives of Mr Sullivan held the front entrance and the upper gallery. The rival holders have been grinning defiantly at each other, and the known presence of irritable specimens of the genus cards in the gallery has hitherto prevented those on the stage from making a sortie. On the other hand, those in the gallery staring over the ".gloomy vast " of the imperfectly-lighted pit and stalls, have been impressed and affected by the presence of stalwart men in various atti tudes, sword and revolver in hand, ready to guard their trust. About daybreak, however, yesterday morning, the representatives of the trustee might have been seen by a watchful observer slipping down ropes from the gallery into the pit, close by the orchestra, and stealing gently on to the stage, where seven men were sleeping armed to the teeth. One man, renowned for personal strength, was specially told off to seize and render harmless a particularly noxious individual, who watLnever seen except when uTbed, and then always with a revolver by his side. After the stealthy approach the rush was made, and with the exception of two living men, the guard was found to consist of lay figures, " property-men," well and artistically disposed. The individual before referred to, who had been specially employed to dispose of one man, rushed his victim gallantly and seized him by the throat. The result was that by some springy con- ■ trivance the figure jerked up its head (which was in the shape of a -horned devil) and struck the assailant on the forehead, frightening him to such an extent that he vaulted over the orchestra,anddisappearedincontinentlyinto the gloomy back recesses of the pit. The successful assailants then ejected their enemies, and barricaded the theatre. The barricades are of such a substantial nature that nothing less than bombarding can possibly open an entrance at the back ; and the suggestive whining of the dogs, transferred from the gallery to the stage, is calculated to make the boldest man pause before venturing within reach of their chains. A notice has been posted upon the doors of the theatre, signed by MrDe Haga, stating that anyone attempting to enter the theatre without permission will be treated as a trespasser. — Daily Telegraph.
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Southland Times, Issue 1252, 17 May 1870, Page 3
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