VICTORIA.

Southland Times, Issue 1265, 14 June 1870, Page 3

VICTORIA.

The Government refused to grant a pension to Mr Wintle's widow. Mr Longmore has given notice of motion that the Government vote £2000 to Dr Lang. Mr Chomley has been appointed Crown Solicitor. The Publican's Bill has been read a second time. Mr Charles Day, chemist, Lonsdalestreet East, committed suicide on the 27th, by taking prussic acid. He was suffering from delirium tremens at the time. His funeral took place on Sunday, and was largely attended. A serious railway collision occurred at Footscray on the 24th. The Ballarat train dashed into the Williamstown train, and about 40 passengers were injured, though none of them seriously. The inquest on Walshe was concluded on the 25th. Supple was fully committed for trial. Draper has been found guilty on a charge of making false entries in the bank-books. Sentence was deferred, until the law points reserved are argued. Public opinion against assisted immigration is steadily gaining ground. The Chamber of Commerce met on the 27th. The President introduced Messrs Fitzherbert, Pharazyn, Bhodes, and Collie, who fully explained the objects sought by them in visiting Victoria. A long discussion ensued, and the President assured the deputation that the subject would receive the best consideration of the Chamber. Captain Foster Fyans of Geelong, an old colonist, is dead. The Protection and Anti-State Immigration League is becoming numerically stronger. The garden gates at Carlton were removed during the night, and the roadway forcibly opened. The.. Government decline to interfere in the matter. The meeting of the shareholders of the Polynesia Company was a stormy one. Mr Keith charged the directors with defrauding the shareholders in selling the Company's land. The Chairman made a full and satisfactory explanation, and the directors were re-elected. The match between Harris and Hewitt for 300 yards, has been fixed to come off on the 23rd June. Mr Duffy's motion for the appointment of a committee of the Assembly to consider the subject of the future federation of the Australian colonies, and report upon the steps necessary to be taken to obtain the co-operation of the Parliaments of the several colonies, has been carried. Accidents on the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Eailway (says the Herald of the 4th) have become so frequent of late that there need now be little surprise when fresh ones are announced. Near the Swan-street station another casualty took place this morning. At 9 a.m. an empty train, consisting of an engine and three carriages, including the guard's van, left the Melbourne station to proceed to Windsor, in order to convey passengers from that station to town at 9.11. At the junction of the Hawthorn and Windsor lines at Bichmond, the end carriage was thrown completely off the line, and the train brought to a standstill. \

The formation of artificial oyster beds in Lady Bay is engaging the attention of the Borough Council of Portland. Mr Thomas Parsons, Barrister-at-law, but better known to th© Melbourne public by the peculiar norn de plume of the " Washerwoman," committed suicide on the 31st ult. He sent letters to several parties informing them of his intention, and his body was found in the Yarra at the place mentioned by the unfortunate gentleman. Mr Amess, the Mayor of Melbourne, has consented to become the chairman of the^central committee for the furtherance of the proposed testimonial to Mr J. M. Grant. The largest nugget yet found at Berlin was brought into the Bank of New South Wales on the 4th inst. It weighed 1,121 oz. 15dwt., and is valued at upwards of £4,000. Mr James Moore, publican, was charged . at the Police Court, Talbot, on the 4th inst. with assaulting Margaret Williamson with intent. The case was, however, dismissed, as it was proved in evidence that the girl had lived in houses of bad repute both at Ballarat East and in Talbot. The defalcations of the late town clerk of Newtown and Chilwell are said to amount to not more than £24. At Camperdown, one of the produce merchants, Mr Wm. Ower, has commenced quoting prices under the cental system. The sum now collected privately for the widow and children of the late Mr Walshe is between £500 and £600. In that amount is included a sum of £50, subscribed by Mr G. P. Smith. A man named Bobeit Blanc has been killed accidentally in Mr Macgregor's sale" yards, at Warrnambool, by a kick from a horse, which he had touched with his hand on the haunch when passing. An effort is about to be made to test the opinion h_d by many practical miners, that leads of gold run under the basaltic formation near Kyneton. An association has been formed, locally, for the purpose, and the attempt will be made on a portion of the racecourse that has been marked off for the purpose. The contractors for the first four sections of the North-eastern railway expect to commence the work from the Essendon terminus in the middle of June. Large numbers of miners are leaving Ballarat to give the new goldfields of Tasmania a trial. The prospects of Ballarat are not at present improving. The trunks of some very large trees have lately been found at Cockatoo, near Talbot, in mining claims, at a depth of 80 feet from, the surface. Surprise has been expressed in Melbourne that the grave of the late Mr J. P. Fawkner, in the Melbourne Cemetery, has neither stone upon it, nor fence around it. Mr Michael Prendergast, formerly member of Parliament for Castlemaine — ■ a barrister, a scholar, and a gentleman, but unfortunately a victim to drink — appears to be in the last state of destitution and misery. He was to be brought before 'the magistrates at Wedderburn the other day as a vagrant. A meeting of the shareholders of the National Bank was held on the 30th ult., when it was resolved that a dividend for the half-year ending the 31st March should be paid out of the reserve fund at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum. One evening, in the course of a short debate in the Assembly, on the adoption of a special flag for Victoria, Mr Fraser represented that he had been informed that the flag unfurled on board the Nelson was the identical flag that was flying over the Eureka Stockade at the time of the riot. (Laughter.) The flag in question was subsequently stolen from the court, and had never since been found. We (Argus) are glad to be able to announce that the bushranger Power has at length been captured. A telegram was received on the sth by the chief commissioner of police, informing him that Power had been arrested that morning in the King Biver Banges, on the Glenmore run, by Superintendents Nicolson and Hare and Sergeant Montfort. No particulars of the capture have been furnished, but the bushranger is now, we learn, safely lodged in the Wangaratta watchhouse.