General Intelligence.

Clutha Leader, Volume III, Issue 130, 5 January 1877, Page 6

General Intelligence.

( Mr Donald Reid ..bus been, bfilloied out of the .directorship of the .ppium-od Bank. . , , , "-,,., -„ „. . .,. . a

An. action fqi^sedupUoiL.haSiJjeeu laid agains.t a w,eji-kD.o\v ? n.7Melb lo^r-1 o^r- ( Q.es; miller —r-dama o-es, X5000.; ■ 5 , , '..,, .. ,, ,., , Tbe Victorian, Parliamgn^was proro^ned., on, the J22nd ; ; ; Sixteen Acts were passed during" the.- session, ■ '>■.

„ Mr,M'Arthur,._Snp i »jnnrendept,;of the Bank of Australasia, b as ; been : presented with ,500- sovereigns a3 a token of respect.

A storekeeper resident at Blaeskin, named Roderick .Finlay.s.on, was .drowned while bathing in a .river in that. district on. Friday

The Sailors' Home contains at present 27 boni'dfvs.. , .During 1 the., month, 51. entered and ; 42,left,.the:Hpnie, • The average daily niimbei\was.l9., .

Scarlet fever has recently, broken out amongst the, Maoiis.and hatfcustes of Stewart's Island. . : Dr . . Burns, of .Dunedin, has-been senVto, the- Island by the Government,; to - endeavour., to. prevent the SDread of the disease. .1 „

Napier advices. pays .Sir, I). M'Lean is. nor, likely,, to recover,-..... He lis.suffering- from dropsy in, ;the, lungs,. and;hearfe disease.: . .- Although., he, may j recover from his recent : violen,t. attack; his u'tim.Hte recovery is ; , hopeless. , P

Diphtheriais prevalent in Wellington in a., malignant form. , Within last week four children in one family on Lambton Quay have died, and a fifth is dano-erously ill; A ; little girl livino; opposite, died .on. Saturday,, and two children .in ,a .family close by are dano'erouslyill. • , ,

-The- following gentlemen have .been requested .to act; as a committee of management of:, the Dunedin Hospital: A. C. Strp(ie,,Esq.,,R,M,, his Worship the Mayor, James., Fulton,; Esq., R.m., .Sir John Richardson, : ; and -Messrs James Rattray, .JphniiOargill, R. Gillies,?. C. Neil], and R. : Wilson , . . .';..,

■In the . match .against the, ; All England; Eleven, Victoria .in -the, second innings made ; 105, of which floran (not .out) scored 47. Englishmen made 129 in their secpn.rl innings — Greenwood contributing;: 38, JEmmett '35, and Charlwood 23.. Victoria thus won by 31 runs.

At, the Criminal Sittings, of , the Supreme Court, Wellington, whicii.. ; commenced ,on Tuesdfiv, There ,, were amongst other cases one ;of murder, two of rape, one of burglnry,\one steal* ing from adwelliny;, one, of conceal mer (% of birth, and one. of an unmentionaK kind. The Empire' City is, progressing A strange case of shootingitook plan\f at the. Blue Spur on Monday night. ■ James Campbell and' some children were sitting. in a room, when a gun was fired at them through the window, smashing three finger? of, one of the girls' hands, and injuring, the other two slightly. No .'clue, has yet been found to the person firing the gun. The Auckland Cross and Herald an.nounces that in. future, they wilt be published. as one journal. The Cross states that the Company lost £8000, and that there is no posibility of making two papers nay working, in opposition to each other. Mr Wilson, of the Herald, and Mr Hortpn, of the Cross, have entered into partnership. A man named Thomas Jackson, who seemed to labour under the delusion that Eurekarstreet was the Garden of Eden, and he Adam, was recently charged at the town court, writea the Melbourne Star, with indecency. His costume was so very light as to be V almost invisible, and he was sentenced by Mr , Scott, the presiding J.P., to seven fdays' imprisonment. , A shocking affray occurred on Saturday, at a shanty at the Government reserve, fTimaru, occupied by a woman of ill-fame, v named Greaves. Davis, who lives with her, turned a man named Callaghan , out, but Oallaghan beat Davis almost to death with a log of wood. Davis lies at the Hospital in a precarious state, and Callaghan has been rsmanded.for a week.

The Brisbane Courier has been shown vveights of fleece shorn for two consecutive years from Mr ' Donald Gunn'a (Pikechile) Saxon merino ram Robust, imported by him in 1871. In 1875 he cut\22|lbs'. On November 13 of the present year, with only 327 days' growth, he cut 2 libs 4ozs. Had the hVece been full growth, Mr Gunn calculates the weight Would have been 251bs. Considering the rum has been f in the Colony five years, and. that the fleece "fine's down'/witli age, these weigh fs are remarkable.; for a fineclothing sheen, At Dunedin, on Pridajr last, William Walker, compositor; was charged at the . Police Court, with having- "-i-eviously assaulted his step-child, one Hetty Layard. Evidence was' given*. that on Christmas "'bay ijie took 'the child by the leg-s,, and dashedi'ts Head upon the floor and stumped "upon it.! 1 . '"-Dr Brown who had atte'uded '''x he' child, 'said when he arrived the child was ajiparently unconscious, and upon examining* it, he found a bruise on the'right side of the/head ; , the ; right, collar-bone /.broken, the left 'colar'-bone disloct»ted,. ; whilst the body was ' bruised. ( 'I.-»,'e left leg also was • broken , : ' be t Weetf" t.h* ! a ri k "le . and knee. }\. ' Th^re'.waa. ; l)r«eVHn i o-;f poW't he right eat^^ , tn^l, u Pp6r ;'' part' /of was'bruised'^ Tile p.upils'of the .. eyes- were very much contracted." <: By the^JlpViog 'morni tig- , the child recb^erexr' consciousness, and he now/cbqsi3'eyeo!"i£ f l)ut of danger. 'The^pnsoner was i'ocJmmirte y d* l io?'trial.