LATEST TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 195, 16 March 1868, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC INTELLIGENCE.

New South Wales. Sydney, February 28. In the Assembly last night, Dr Lang's motion that the hon, members Messrs Macpherson and Lee be prosecuted by the hon. the Attorney-Gene-ral for their unseemly conduct in the House on the previous day, was carried by a majority of 24 to 22 against the Government. About 2000 ounces of gold were sent away from the Maryborough diggings during the last fourteen days. The operation of digging had been interrupted by the flooding out of the claims. 7 p.m: The ship Esmeralda, from Liverpool, which was ashore near Port Stephens and was afterwards towed into that port, arrived here last night in tow of steamer Prince Alfred. The stern of the brig Gratia has been washed ashore. It is feared all hands were lost. March 1 A large fire broke out at two o'clock this afternoon, in Mr Joseph B. Holdsworth's ironmongery store, in Georgestreet, and it is still burning furiously. March 2. The building occupied by Mr Holdsworth, in George-street, which took fire yesterday afternoon, was totally destroyed. It is estimated that the damage done to the building and to Holdsworth's stock will amount to £IO,OOO. This amount is, however, covered by insurance. H.M.S.S. Challenger, from Brisbane, with H.E.H. Prince Alfred on board, entered the Heads at 7 p.m. to-day. March 4. A pugilistic encounter which took place between two magistrates in the Macleay district, is now under investigation "by the Government. The Council of the National Board of Education has in hand an unexpected balance of the grant for last year, amounting to £12,000. The general working of the act is giving very great satisfaction. March 6. H.E.H Prince Alfred, after receiving a welcome frum the people of Morpeth, proceed by the train to Maitland, where he was warmly welcomed by some thousands of spectators- A procession was then formed which escorted him to the Northumberland Hotel, where his Eoyal Highness partook of flome refreshment: visited the school children, who sang the National Anthem, and afterwards opened the Agricultural Show. South Australia. Adelaide, March 2. The Satirist publishes an account of a rascally outrage which was perpetrated on a drunken woman by some members of Parliament. The circumstance has called forth a vast amount of indignation. Lady Daly, our late Governor's widow, left Government House on Saturday. March 4. The action for libel against the Satirist comes on for hearing on Friday next. The Agricultural and Horticultural Society's Show takes places to morrow and is expected to prove very successful. Queensland. Brisbane, March 6. Thirteen thousand diggers are now at the Maryborough goldfields. The rush has been overdone, and great distress is shortly expected. MINEEAL WEALTH OF JAPAN- ( From Morgan's Trade Circular.) Mr. Gower, the British Consul at Hakodadi, refers in his report of this year to the minerals which abound in the island of Yesso, and states that he has visited some of the rich mines which have been abandoned through

mere ignorance of the first engineering principles, and through disregard for economy of time and labor. Near Ono, a village twelve miles from Hakodadi, there is a good lead mine, situated in a valley well supplied with the necessary wood for arming the galleries, and plenty of water to work machinery, where operations were actually ordered to cease when the vein of ore found was over three feet wide. Further on, some 40 miles, in the neighborhood of Ulop, and in almost as favorable a position, there is another neglected lead mine, which contains about one anda-half per cent of silver; but here also the veins have been followed from the surface, where they are comparatively thin, instead of cross-cutting them lower down, with well-directed galleries, and thus meeting them in their thickness. Many spots where this mineral is found are left unnoticed. Copper and iron are found in different forms. On the east coast the Consul has gone over miles and miles of iron sand, which is said to contain over 60 per cent, of piire metal. Gold is found in small quantities in the vicinity of Ulop. There are also springs of asphaltum, with every indication of the probable existence of petroleum not far below the surface. Coal is plentiful. To use the expression of a native officer, cliffs of pure coal form part of the coast near Kusuri, where the waves wash it into the sea. Eussian men-of-war are allowed to help themselves freely to coal, which the Japanese leave waste near their frontier at Karsonnai. Again, at Iwanai, close to a fair anchorage in the Japan sea, the Consul visited a rich mine of excellent soft coal, which burns with a clear fire, gives great heat, and is almost free from ashes ; the proportions being 55 per cent, pure coke, 35 per cent, bitumenous matter giving gasses, and 10 per cent, ashes. An engineer employed in saw mills belonging to a British firm at Hakodadi describes the coal, in a written report, "as good as any English coal he has ever used." The Ainos, or aborigines of Yesso, are so restricted in privileges, and socially confined by their despotic rulers, that this interesting race may be considered as slowly disappearing and gradually being replaced by natives of the southern islands.

The Great Paris Gymkasiijm.— The principal gymnasiun in Paris is that of M. Triat, in the Avenue Montaigne Champs and airy building, every portion of which and all the apparatus of which are lightly and, if I may use the word, cheerfully constructed. The great hall is devoted to the use of ordinary frequenters, rooms at the sides being appropriated to those who need special exercises for the developement of anyparticular part of the body, and a corridor in the rear being used as a lavatory for those who engage in the exercises of the gymnasium. M. Triat's system is to a great extent simultaneous in character, and at class time his gymnasium presents a truly animated spectacle. His principles of exercise deserves special notice from his insisting on alertness and mobility being expressed in every atitude in which he places his pupils. His gymnasium is crowded all day during the Paris season by the elite of French society. Very largp numbers of ladies avail themselves of M. Tait's admirable curriculum. The clases, divided by sexesand ages, are are conveniently distributed throughout the day. At one hour of the day fashonable ladies' schools arrive in omnibuses from different pensoimats, and devote themselves to physical training, with results which, prior to the opening of the Liverpool Gymnasium, owing to deficiency of system, have never been attained in English academies, the " calisthenics " of which are often little better than a costly mockery. Nor does the systematic character of the training lessen the pleasure of it, for it only needs to witness the scene to be convinced that the well-formed and agile young ladies regard these exercises as the most delightful recreation. At other hours of the day, classes may be seen at work, in which the belles of Parisian society maintain in the graceful figures ; and alternating with these classes are others for men, attended by all ages and professions. The number of middle-aged and elderly men who vail themselves of M. Triat's four o'clock class, is a phenomenon to those who are unacquainted with the extent to which the importance of physicial training is recognised by the educated classes across the Channel. A gallery as at the magnificent institution at Liverpool, is accessible for lady spectators during the ladies' classes, and for ladies and gentlemeu during the gentlemen's classes ; and the of locale the gymnasium renders it easy for all visitors to Paris to spend an hour there , every pleasantly and profitably.

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