General News.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4871, 20 August 1884, Page 2

General News.

.Eleven tons of gold hare been produced from tho; Garden Gully United mine. Statistics for the past fourteen years, since the mine began yielding, show that the company had, since the tributes expired, obtained over 260,b000zs of gold; whilst in their turn the tributers secured considerablyV over iWfiQQozs, fthe:-'. whole of Tthe; monetary valu#beinfic about ;£l,300>000: s >ArchibaldsForbes, -"in London'Jot ['■', tings "in a. South Australian paper, writes :—" A grand jury has opportunely relieved the British peerage from what would have been a dreadful scandal. That low-lived and dissipated young blackguard Lord St* Leonards, the inheritor of .the title of a most wortUy. and able Lord Chancellory had> committed a disgraceful offence, iwhich-caused; him to. be indicted for felony. When the bill of indictment came before the grand jury, they;ignored it, so far as regarded the charge of felony, and Lord St ? : Leonards ivas tried and found guilty of a misdemeanour only; ■That was bad enough, for a' British peer to stand iii the dock:of a; crimiaalLCourtv and listen to the verdict pf a jury finding him gq.Uty of an: indecent assault. Bat the scandal,-would, have been infiaitely greater had the''Grand Jury•found a true bill io regard to the chirge of felony. A peer brought to trial for felony can deinaod to be tried by his peers, and I am assured that Lord St; Leonards; hadvdej; termined to claim his privilege of .peerage.; Fancy; the House of Lpcdsehgagt'd in the J;rial of one of its members on the charge of 'assault with inient T And fancy what marinerof peer that peormnit Be who could purpose^ demanding: a" right that must involve a result so humiliating !:The result of. this narrow ; espape/will lead to the ;al>olitipn pf^: thisi pri^lege; ofj the peerage^'whict is a relic, of the Foxes* are getting alarmingly numerous in the vicinity of Taradale (Victoria)/and are. destroying numbers of young lambs. For several nights they visited the^.Woolbrook flocks and killed altogether^about 10P\lambs^>-.;'''<QlnV|ibpih'er'aight;they Ikilled; about3olamb^itt'bDe'6f';tbe''WiirrambeeD* flocks. Six foxes have been killed within the last two or three weeks, and.a bonus of 109 for each has been paid by the Leigh Bhire Gptincil. In the rocky fastnesses' overhanging the river.^L: eigh f: 'tb'reevO>.-8o^: miles above Gothill, the foxes'ar^ numer- ■ ous;; and they make thel night hideous' .with i their Howling cries, strenuous meaiures are taken for stamping them out, it ia feared that they will become a greater curse t.o the country.and a more difficult one to get rid of than even the rabbits, which are not altogether an unmixed evil. y ;