GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

Tuapeka Times, Volume II, Issue 58, 20 March 1869, Page 3

GENERAL NEWS SUMMARY.

The country round Mackay, Victoria, has been devastated by hordes of largo 1 green caterpillars.

Hugh Levinger, super-cargo of the schooner Young Australia, was charged at the City Court, Melbourne, with the murder of three natives of Tanna, an island in the Pacific. The crime arose oat of the colonial slave trade, which is disguised under the name of "free labour!" Levinger has been remanded to Sydney.

A boy, eleven years of age, wag recently charged at the police court, Liverpool, with attempting to murder hifr mother. He had been pilfering.

There is a man living on a small island in the west of Scotland who is 102 yearsof age, and who has never tasted alcohol or tobacco.

The well-known entire, Ugly Buck, is dead. He had been removed to Waikouaiti for wintering ; and in attempting to jump out of his paddock, staked himself.'

A quartz reef has been discovered on the run of Mr. Ryan, Burrows, near Yass, N.S.W.

The " Canterbury Press " is now owned by a joint-stock company. Captain Hall has discovered that the last survivor of Sir John Franklin's expedition died as recently as 1865. Captain Crozier died in 1864.

During the month of February-there were 59 births, 29 deaths, and 26 marriages, in Dunedin.

A considerable party in Southland desire re-annexation to Otago. A settler at Waikivi, near Invercargill, named Cumming, has been accidentally shot.

The Duke of Edinburgh carries O'Farrell's bullet about with him, attached tohis watch guard.

A new goldfield, it is said, has beendiscovered at the Cam, westward of Henrietta Plains.

A man died recently at Toowoomba, of cholera.

A nugget, 301bs. weight, has been Eound at the Berlin rush.

The Victorian papers complain bitterly of the danger and inconveniece of the long trains at present worn by ladies. A subscription commenced at Sheffield, for a testimonial to Mr. Roebuck, already amounts to £2,500.

Messrs. Strahan and Co. are in future to be Tennyson's publishers. : The s.s. Tuapeka is for sale. Dr. Cooke, of Belfast, th 6 nestor of Ulster Presbyterians, is dead.

One million one hundred and thirty thousand pounds is the amount of Train's " little bill " against England. Great destitution is said to prevail among the weavers of Glasgow. A chemist's assistant in London died recently from inhaling chloroform" for the purpose of relieving a face-ache.

The Prince and Princess of Wales were, by last accounts, on a visit to Copenhagen. Mr. Brooks, of Christchurch College, Cambridge, has speked, or, in other words, mysteriously disappeared. John Fraser, a returned digger, was lately stuck up in Liverpool. He lost £350, and several nuggets, &c.

The Thames Goldfield is looking -up, new reefs "being discovered daily, and claims looked upon as next to valueless turning out better than even the celebrated Hunt's !

The Warden in the Thames goldfield has in a recent case decided that a claim cannot be abandoned unless sleeping partners are consenting parties ; and that these can, within a reasonable time, assert their rights to the property. This is diametrically opposedto Ballarat decisions.

Victoria Sqttattess.— The "Leader M says :—": — " Verily they have their own troubles now. Scab, fluke, footrot, popular ministries, drought, free-grass, no grass, laud selection, forty-second clauses, fencings, fall in wool, auriferous reserves, soured bankers, bush fires, insolvency commissioners, goldfields, commons, inquisitive'creditors, pound-keepers, make up such a catalogue of woe as never afflicted flockowners since Job lost seven thousand sheep by fire. By Heathcot© there is a station which John Hunter Patterson once sold at about twentyseven shillings 'per head ; this changed hands during the last few days with 12,000 sheep, for £1750 (lees thanSs. per head), the last owners having dropped about £17,000 by their venture.