General News.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4428, 14 March 1883, Page 2

General News.

The largest station in Australia is owned by the Barrow Creek Pastoral Company, " The block, situated around Barrow's Creek •' on the orerland telegraph line, embraces 20,000 square miles, or 12,800,000 acres. The following advertisement appears in a Riverina newspaper :—'• Wanted.—A-". cultured gentleman, capable of milking • goats. A university man preferred. Applications, with testimonials as to pro* fieiency, to be addressed," &c. Midwinter was a mere child when he went to Victoria, and learned- to play' _ cricket in Bendigo, where, some 15 or 16 years ago, he and Boyle were the two most promising colts of the B.U.CiC, the first eleven of which was then usually captained by Mr Angus Mackay. . * An extraordinary case of. accidental grafting, is mentioned by the Sydney "- Town and Country Journal a« having occurred at Albury. Some time ago - daring a heavy gale, of wind, a portion of „-- a gum tree was snapped off and carried „ some distance by. the force of the gale. In falling the sharp jagged end' of the limb came in contact with a branch of an apricot tree, in a garden, in the town named, and, piercing the' bark, became fixed in that position. In time the union of the two limbs was completed; and, ever since, the strange scion has beeo<quite at home on the apricot tree. The J peculiarity of the affair is the fact that two traes of such dissimilar habits should hare united in the manner described. Western Australians object strongly to the performance of Turn Taj (or's " Ticket* of-leave Mau." Its implication is too . personal. New South Wales opens its financial year with a surplus of uo less than £1,827,000.