INTERCOLONIAL.

Southland Times, Issue 1717, 21 March 1873, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

Melbourne, March ]3. The Colac Meat Preserving Company pot 2,000 21b tins daily, and 100 men are kept constantly employed. They purchase kangaroo flesh at from a halfpenny to a penny per pound, and rabbit* at from 6d to 7d per pair, and find a ready sale for their stock at 9d per pound wholesale. John Middleton, a large cattle and sheep dealer, was arrested at Kildare on the 10th, on a warrant charging him with forcing a bill of exchange of John M'Lennar, farmer, Little River, for £537 10a. It is stated that the Bank of New South Wales holds another forged document passed some years ago. Middleton and his partner are well known as stock agents for Guthrie, Bullock, and Co Middleton's arrest caused much surprise. Samuel Wright, sentenced to death for an attempt to murder Arthur Hogan, at Sandhurst, waß executed at Castlemaine en the 11th. Peter King, formerly a publican ia Prahran. and once well known to sporting men as master of the pack of hounds which used to be kept in that locality, con. mitted suicide on the 9th. Some disappointment was caused owing »to the commission of His Excellency Sir *George Bowen as Governor of Victoria not. being received by the Suez mail. The miners' strike at IStawell has terminated. Champagne, the produce of the Bendigo district., is to be exhibited at a show to be held there. Parliament ia prorogued till tbe 15th April . At the autumn meeting of the Victoria Racing Club, on the 7th and Stb, Bismarck won the Hurdle Race, Blue Peter the St. Leger Stakes, Lapidist the Ascot, Vale Stakes, Warrior the Australian Cup, Topper the Plate of £100, The Quack the Grand Stand Stakes, Rose d'Amour the Nursery Handicap, The Ace the Autumn Handicap, Quack the Town Plate, Horizon the Steeplechase, and Panroure the Helter Skelter. The intercolonial cricket match between Victoria and New South Wales, which took place in Sydney, was won by Victoria by 2-i runs. A Volunteer encampment is to be held at Eaßter. A largely-attended dinner was given by the Bar to Sir William Stawell, Chief Justice, on the 12th. Sydney. Three hundred and seventy-five diamonds have been received from Bongera. They were all small and of bad color. The Assembly was counted out on the second reading of the Permissive Liquor Bill The Government have promised that the first business next session will be a bill to revise tbe tariff, including the entire abolition of ad valorem duties. The Divorce Act comes iuto operation on Ist July. The Queensland Admiralty Court has decided that the seizure of the schooner Woodbine by Captain Moresby, of H.M.S. Basilisk, is illegal. Another rush has taken pi u-e to fie old pipeclay diggings, in the Gulgong district, where six claims have struck on good gold. Mrs M'Aveeny's confession shows that she committed a most, deliberate murder. She attacked her husband with a tomahawk while in bed, and then went out. On her return she found him ■itting at the fire, and struck him five | or six blows with the tomahawk, and then fiuiahed him with a stick Having ascertained that her hmband was dead, she strewed the things about the house, in order to corroborate the story as to robbers having entered the place. She gives as a reason for the murder ill-treat-ment on the part of her husband. The last cargo from the wreck of the Polonaise has arrived at Kockhampton. The vessel has now entirely broken up. There have been saved over 500 bales of wool, 100 casks tallow, and a quantity of preserved meats. Twenty-two thousand tons of coal were exported from Newcastle during last week. The Government are likely to make immediate arrangements to reopen the Californian.tuail route. ( )rdera have arrived by the mail for 11,000 tons of coal for the use of the navy in China and India during the current ye;ir. The Herald suggests that the Government should charter the \. S. & Is. Co 's steamers ior a temporary Caiifornian service. J

The Upppr House Bill occupied the Assembly all last night (12th)- .A factious opposition was made to every clause. Notice has been yiven of a call of the House for the third reading. The entrance money at the late cricket match exceeded £1100. Adelaide The land sales in February, exclusive of leaped lari'ls, reached to 25,000 acres, averaging 21s per acre. The Government are fitting out an expedition to erect 50,000 iron poles on the overland line, at the Northern Territory end. Private telegrams from Yam Creek confirm the first good news. A telegram from the manager of the Darwin Company reports that from acrushingof a hundred specimens in which goM was invisible, j lOoz of jjoLI had been obtained to thfiton. ; Notice of motion lias been <:iven that ' the Corporation borrow £100,000 for the purpose of carrying out drainage and other public works. Tenders have been called for 1,000 tons of flour in barrels for shipment to New CaJedonia. The lowest tender, of £12 to £12 2s 6d, was declined. Wheat is steady at 4s lOd. A specimen of copper ore from the Northern Territory yielded 35 per cent, of copper. A heavy sale of flour has been made at £12 2s 6d afloat.