INTERCOLONIAL EXTRACTS.

Southland Times, Issue 1253, 20 May 1870, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL EXTRACTS.

Hares have so successfully acclimated in some parts of Victoria that sportsmen , are allowed to shoot them. They fetch 10a. in Melbourne at present, bat prices are said to have a downward tendency. The notorious swindler Edward Bathurst was found guilty at the Melbourne Criminal Sessions of obtaining money by false pretences, and sentenced to three years, imprisonment. The Age says that when called upon to defend himself he made a speech two hours long, in which he gave a history of his career:— In early life he said he was destined for the bar, and became a student at Lincoln's Inn. By the instrumentality of Lord Aberdeen he was appointed in the Foreign Office, where he occupied an important position. He was afterwards sent by another noble lord to Denmark, aB English consul. In that city he formed the acquaintance of an old gentleman, who, by political changes, is now King of Denmark. Two little girls in that house he had often nursed. One is the present Princess of Wales, and the other the future Empress of Bussia, the King of Denmark's daughter. He was five years in the "West Indies, and married the Governor of Jamaica to a gaoler's daughter, as the ecclesiastical authorities refused to perform the ceremony on account of the position of the bride. He came out to Victoria acting under the advice of Lord -Aberdeen, and received £1000 from Lord Bathurst. He brought letters of inlroductionfrom the Duke of Bichmond and other members of the nobility, and was known at many Government houses in the colonies. Sir Charles Fitzroy advised him to go back to England, which he did, but afterwards returned to the colony. He wished to know if it was probable, with this career, he could hare sunk so low as to commit the crime imputed to him. A correspondent of the Courier paper computes that the Tom Thumb Troupe will carry away £1000 from Ballarat. It is curious (says a Melbourne paper) to read in a Hobarton paper that a vessel has arrived therefrom New Zealand, with a cargo of 1500 bushels of English barley, to be converted into malt for a firm in Sydney ! The Victorian Meat-preserving Company have determined on the further issue of 5000 shares, to enable them to carry on on an extended and more profitable scale. The successful method of preserving meat in tallow, as it is now exported to England and Eranee, is still to be adhered to, but large quantities are to be prepared ; and the manufacture of soups, as well as the tinning of other delicacies, will be taken in hand again. The Dixon Democrat says that a tombstone in the cemetery in that city bears simply the suggestive epitaph: " (xone up."