INTERCOLONIAL.

Southland Times, Issue 1693, 24 January 1873, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

- ■ »'■ MKtsotJfiNE, Jan. 18. Sereral gentleman have decided upon offering a reward of £500 for the discovery of a payable seam of coal within , a convenient distance of Geelong. The Sandhurst; City Council has decided to float another loan of £40,000, ' under the Waterworks Act. The sentence of the prisoners Mount and Morris for manslaughter committed on board the brig Carl has been postponed till the 15th April. The fourteenth half-yearly report of the Victorian Woollen Cloth Manufacturing Company shows a profit of £2457 15* lOd. John Mouat, who stabbed Wm. Fred. Jenkinson, licensee of the Belmore Hotel, Lonsdale street, Melbourne, has been committed for trial, bail being allowed , in two sureties of £100 each. I The new Education Act is working admirably. Nearly all the schools under the old Board have come under its operations, and the schools are filled to overflowing. Tenders have been invited "for half-a---million of four per cent. Government stock. The Banks have adopted a new scale of discounts. The minimum is now 3 per cent. The Government has reduced the interest on deposits in the Savings Banks from 4 to 3 per cent. The Exhibition has been a great success in regard to attendance. It closes this •vening. The crime of infanticide is very prevalent in the colony. Wallis, the well-known bookmaker, has been convicted of offering a bribe to a jockey, and has been disqualified by the Croxton Park stewards. The other ciubs will follow suit. Sydney. Last month's receipts for tin are 406 tons. Last quarter's revenue shows an increase of £148,784. The total revenue for the year amounted to £2,812.379, and the net increase on the year waa £573.478. The Newcastle miners offer the companies to continue working the long hours if the price of coal is raised Is a ton, of which the men should get a fourth. The offer is likely to be accepted. It is proposed to commence tbe Intercolonial Crk-ket Match on February 27, if the Victorian players are agreeable. The French barque Surcouf, hence with horses, has been wrecked off New Caledonia. Cobb's coach and four horses were lost crossing the Turoon River on Sunday. The steam collier Bulli has arrived, 63 days from London. She reports having passed a quantity of wreckage in lat. 90deg. E. and long. 44deg. S. A ship from Adelaide homeward bound, with her bows stove in by collision, arrived at St Helena when the Bulli was leaving The captain thinks the name of the ship was Mary Grice, or it may have been Ma,*y Blundell. Additional police have been sent to Newcastle. A monster meeting of the miners hat been held, at which it was decided to continue the strike. The Lambton men have stopped work and rejoined those on strike. The Newcastle Steam-tug Company have decided to lay up their boats until the strike ends. The steamer Omeo cannot leave for Sydney for the want of 10 tons of coal ; and several vessels have sailed in ballast. Newcastle coals have been sold here at 25s per ton by the cargo. Captain Witherington. Eobert M'Dou. gall (charterer)", Frank John (interpreter), and Thomas Newton (seaman), of the Kate Grant, have been committed for trial for kidnapping. An information for kidnapping has been laid against persons connected with the steamer Wainui. The alleged kidnapping took place in the latter part of the year 1871. The Marine Board have suspended the certificate of the captain of the steamer Sir Charles Cowper for sir months for the collision with the schooner Titania. Adelaide. The Bishop of Adelaide has appointed the last Sunday in January, and the first two Sundays in February, for the harvest thanksgiving. The finest copper lode yet discovered m the North has been found on the property of the Victorian and South Australian Company. Several pastoral runs were sold by auction on the 16th. Warcowie, with 25,000 sheep, realised 25s 9d per head. The Savings Bank is paying 5 per cent interest on deposits. It is stated that the wheat crop is averaging 661b per bushel. The exports for last year amounted to £3,454,000 ; ircluding cereals, £807 000 ; minerals, £813,000 ; wool, £1,374,000 ; sundries, £200,000. Nearly half the amountof exports were in the last quarter The year's exports were the largest ever known. Sales of wheat have been made at 4s s£d afloat. The grain is coming in more freely. Bhisbaite. The Treasury returns which have been issued, show that the aet increase on the year's revenue amounted to £180,189 ; the expenditure Bhows an increase of £70,364, while the total receipts of revenue during the year reached £1,368,337. A great flood occurred in tha Condamine River, when the water rose 9ft. over the bridge. Great floods prevail in Northern Queensland. The neighborhood of Charters Towers is inundated. Flour is £60 per ton, and other provisions are at almost famine prices.