Intercolonial Mews

Bruce Herald, Volume VII, Issue 650, 17 November 1874, Page 6

Intercolonial Mews

4 f p at of rascality is reported by the ' Bailarat Courier' as having been perpetrated recently by a youth, about eighteen years of a^e, named Frederick Higgius, of Beaufort, who stole a dep sit receipt for £200 fr<>m a Mr Howie, of Beaufort, and borrowed a horse and gpringcart, of Mr O'Oa'layhan, of the same place, with wh eh he drove into Ores wick to get the receipt cashed at the Bank nf New South Wales. As information of the robbery had been forwarded to the bank, the young fellow was arrested, and remanded to Beaufort

A couple of gentlemen, Messrs O'Reilly and D*ly» attempted to plumb the depths < f .Like Wendouree one Saturday evening iia-ying pontri?ed to upset themselves from a pair^oired ■■•&*?s;■ Mr O'Reilly alone could swim, and was comp^et* t° ««PP ort *»«-companion f or about; fjfteei> min#fceg. by wh ; ch tiojLe jbliiey were nearly exhausted with

wch wave.. They were rescued by members »f the boating clubs. :

A. committee has been formed for the purpose of raising a fund for the beneßtof vlrs Burn, daughter of the Jate Wm. Hone, :he : celebrated author of ihe Every Day, Table, and Year Books. Mrs Burn, whu is idventy-two years of age. has lost hei eniire jioperty by floods in Gibhs Land, and is ■noveover in very ill- health It is proposed hat a lecture shall be given' on he* behalf, mA f»r this pnrp >se Mr Richard Birnie has kindly offered his services.

lt> steal »■ horse Iroiu one person and sell it to a second, and then steal it again and sell it to a third, is rather a novelty in the way of horse stealing. A youth named fames Quirk was charged at the Footscray C<jurfc, Victoria, with, having so distinguished oimself. The horse, which boasted of but •me eye, was first stolen from ono James Oleary. at Kray brook, and Hold by Quirk to s\ Mr Corrigan. at Broadmeadows, for 308, vnd was stolen from him the next day aud *old a few days afterwards by Quirk to a Mrs Warner, at Bacchus M.<irsh, for £3 The prisoner admitted to the apprehending constable that he had sold the horse to Corrigan and stolen it again, because Broadmeadows waa " too near home." Quirk was committed for trial on both charges.

The Castlemaine Woollen Cloth Company have published their prospectus, and expect a weekly profit of £97. Four hundred shares have been taken up, aud a managing committee appoiuted-

A nvm»»er Good Templar picnic is to be held at Maryborough on Boxing Day Oid settlers anticipate drought hi country districts, as the setting in of the summer is exactly like that of 1854

A boy, appropri-itely named Jame3 Green, amused himself by pu'tirur powder on astooe and tickling it with a lighted match. He will reside for some time in the district hospital.

The Pavillion Hotel, Ballarat Oval has been nearly burnt by a careless person throw ing a lighted c gar on the matting.

A youn^ lady, of Smythfs^ale, who ia suffering from mental aberation, seized a knife and jnmoed into a waterhole She stack fast in the sludga at the bottom and was extricated unhurt.

A child of sixteen months old, named Cunningham, walked into the kitchen fire in the fann-honse where her parents resided, and was burned to death

The honorable H. E. Bright, of South Australia, in an address recently delivered there, has advocated the desirability of ladies becoming members of men's Cricket < lubs. He thinks it would give strength to the club financially, as well as spur the members to deeds of greater prowess

Mrs George Army tape, of the Hermitage at Geelong, one of the most beautiful private residences in the colonits, has passed *way at the age of seventy-two. Th-* illness wh eh proved fatal was the fir.it she ever ex perienced.

Mr Yogel, Premier of New Zealand, has visited the Ballarat, School of Mines, and left a prettily written eulogium of it on record in the visitors' book.

A bullet has been extracted in Victoria from the hand of an old soldier, wherein it had laiu fifty-nine yoars

<>v Sandhurst;, dividends one week exceeded calls by £."3,878.

Macbeth has been done at the new theatre Sandhurst ; Mr Milne doubling the king and physician, Mr Aletcalfe playing iViaedutt", and Vlr biowe doubling B<u>quo and fciecase VI r Howe made some fun t>y allowing Banquo's armor to show beneath Hecate's robes, and Fleance was played by a child of six years of ■Age.

A mountel-constable has simultaneously been attacked by two magpies, near Albury, while riding. His ears and head were severely wounded by them, and he now lies in a precarious condition.

The ' Goulb'iru Advertiser' writes as follows of the death of the K ng and Queen Dowager of the Molka tribe of ab-n-inine* : — '•C.-»ptain John, the chief (if th* Molka tribe, is dead. The deceased was son to the late King Charles Tallambo, and heir to id' th^ whites have left of his vast domain — heir to all the rights and privileges that appertain to his royal estate and lineage In other words, he was allowed he privileges of a pauper on his own territory, and was graci ously permitted by a p.iternal Government a six-aud-^i^htpenny blanket oi'Ce or twice a year. His age at tim* >>f death was proahiy 47 or 48. The Q een-Dow;iger Mnry. Km^ Charles's lates . lubra, usurped without Co - tradiction the rr-gal title, and when in her cups — for need we say that all the trib« enj >yed the dregs of civilisation ! —Mary would spread her arms forth, and proclaim aloud that all the Und was hers Poor Mary ! The lamp of life had been expiring in her too while the ortege that conveyed her stepson's body to the grave was on its b!ow and solemn, march. At 10 o'clock a few nights later she also sighed her soul away. Mary's recollection dated as far back as the time of Bu< klev, ' the wild white man whose memory Mr Thomson revived in the columns of the ' Argui' two or three weeks Jigo. Queen Mary win buried the day following her death. The pr<ive of r>]cL JGCing Charles was opened, the coffin of his latest spouse laid thereon. The captain repose* by the side of the old couple Mary, we believH. was 55 years of a^e. She had but one child, a daughter, now upwards of 30 years of age. That daughter owns one of her owu, who is now at school at Corranderk."