INTERCOLONIAL.

Southland Times, Issue 1578, 14 May 1872, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

Melbourne. It is rumored in play-going circles that the site of the late Varieties, in Bourkestreet, is shortly to be utilised by the erection of a new theatre to a^upply the place — temporarily, at least —of the Royal, and that an arrangement to carry out that object has been made between Mr H. Hoyt, who will undertake to build the new house in a couple of months, and Mr Enderby Jackson, who will be the lessee. Hugh Egerton, Louis Barnard, and Henry Read, have been committed by the Melbourne City Court for trial on a charge of conspiring to defraud in the sale of mining shares. Probably the first instance of a girl being killed in gold mining, occurred at Clydesdale recently. Mary Crow, aged thirteen, who, with her sister, had assisted their father for some years in digging, waß filling the bucket at the bottom of a forty feet hole, when a lump of cement fell, and struck her dead. Feeney, the survivor of the Carlton Gardeni tragedy, was to be executed this day, the 14th inst. Ira Aldridge, the colored tragedian, and son of the actor, who was known in England ag the " African Roscius," is wanted by the police for uttering a forged j cheque to Dr L. L. Smith, in payment of a debt. The will of the late Mr Thomas Austin, of Barwon Park, has been proved in the Supreme Court. The property ia sworn under £178,000. The trial of Jamea Wilkie, for the Day lea ford murder, has been concluded, and the prisoner sentenced to death. Sydney. The French transport ship, Juara, has arrived at New Caledonia with 700 Communist convicts. The new chief! justice was also a passenger. A St. Arnaud telegram says that the "Wilson Hill claim crushing of 85 tons yielded 4OBoz. smelted gold. The quartz ' was got within 300 ft. of the Chrysolite Tribute Company's boundary. The stone being crushed at Krohman's claim, Tambarooro, is so rich that the plates must be cleaned every hour, and 341 b of amalgam were obtained from one crushing, on the 25th ult. The All Nations" claim has been sold for £15,000 cash ; and Mrs Beard's claim has been sold to a Sydney speculator on private terms, but it is believed to be £37,000. Trustworthy news has been received that gold has been found near MuswellMary Linton, the baby farmer at Maitland, has been sentenced to one year's imprisonment, for making a false declaration. At the opening of the New South Wales Parliament on the 30th ult., Sir Alfred Stephen, the Acting Q-overnor, delivered a short speech, in which he announced the resignation of the Ministry on the 25th, and that they only held office until the appointment of their successors. He congratulated the House | on the satisfactory sale of the Treasury bills, and stated that the Border customs had yielded £3,907 in February, £3,933

ill March, and £5,393 for the first 27 daya in April. The general revenue to date showed a satisfactory increase. It is rumored that the new Ministry will be composed as follows :— Mr Forster, Premier and Treasurer; Mr Macleay, Colonial Secretary ; Mr Dalley, AttorneyGeneral; Mr Sutherland, Minister of Works ; Mr Hoskina, Minister of Landa. Adelaide. Proceedings have been initiated against the Government for annulling Dalwood and Darwent's overland telegraph contract. In Parliament, Mr "Ward gave notice that be would move that the Transi continental Railway Bill be referred to a select committee. I The Government have promised to I introduce a bill for the sale of land in the Northern Territory. Mr Sarjeant, manager of the 'Band of Hope Company, Billarat, reports highly of the auriferous nature of the lands he inspected on the Eoper, and purposes introducing Chinese to work the auriferous gold-fields. The Assembly has affirmed the desirability of constructing a trans-continental railway on the principle of land endowment, but deferred committing itself until the introduction of the bill. The second reading of Mr Ward's bill to reduce the salary of future Governors from £5,000 to £4,000 waa carried. Mr Angus has moved that communication, be opened up with Queensland, with the view of arranging that steam communication be kept up with the Gulf of Carpentaria until the overland telegraph is completed. The second reading of the Land Bill is proceeding. Wheat is firm at 6s 2d, with no buyers. Flour, £13 5s to £14 10s. Brisbane. In the Legislative Assembly of Queensland, Mr Palmer, the Colonial Secretary, submitted a resolution guaranteeing interest on the cost of construction of a submarine cable to be laid from the Gulf of Carpentaria to Java, and a motion affirming the desirability of a Torres Straits mail service. Both motions were agreed to, and forwarded to the Council for their concurrence.