INTERCOLONIAL.

Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 27, 14 January 1875, Page 6

INTERCOLONIAL.

We have. Melbourne dates to the 4th inst : — Parliament having br en prorogued, there is p'litical quietude, and the last ten day* has been almost entirely devoted to holiday making. As usual, country visitors have streamed into town, and town visitors into the country, by thousands, during the Christmas and New Year holidays: All the places of amusement have been crammed, nnd Blondin, who is about to visit New Zealand, has performed to ten and twelve thousand at a time since be reduced his-prices* Governor Bowen left <br Europe in th( mail' steamer on the 31st, and will not return until July or Auiiist. Sir Redmond Barry- has bscn sworn in as- A cihg -Governor until the arrival ot Sir William Stawell by the next mail steamer, exoected here on the 9th inst. Mr B nj unin Williams: an old colonist, and. a member of. the Upper House,, is dead .' The- Rev. Charles dark, who leaves for Sydney en route for Auckland, has severed his connection with tbe Albert--treet Baptist Church. The Intercolonial cricket match resulted in a victory for the Sydney eleven by six wickets. Kelly, for Victoria,, made tht bighes-t score— B6, and Bannerman, for New South Wale»— BT. It. was an excei lent match and larareiy attended.At .the- New Year Day race m etin« W d'a nai won the Midsummer Handicap, and Lapidist the Canterbury Stakes. Sullivan the murderer still continues in gaol, aivainng departure to New Zealand. A s< a- serpent is said to have teen eeee by those on board the Carlisle Castle on her outward, voyage in lat 45 deg 12 W. A conference of. Statists- is about being held in Hobart Town.At Sydney two hush carpenters quarrelled during a drinking bout, and one took a butcher's knife, and wbi'e the othc wa? in hed. ripped him up. Th'emurdtnr surrendered' The elections in the various districts (Sydney) have been nearly completed. The immi*ram ship Gauntlet was dismayed off Moreton Bay. Five men were drowned at Mackay hy the capsizing of a boat.