PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XI, Issue 575, 16 November 1880, Page 7

PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL.

>■ The value of the Melbourne Cup of 1880 was £1,780. ' :: : ! A recent calicp ball in aid of the Southland Hospital realised £34125. * The Australian Cricketers arrived at King George’s Sound on Tuesday last. !!l - '* A member of the ring lost LIO,OOO over G rand Flaneur’s victory in the Cup. An 18 ounce nugget is reported to have been found at Canada reef, near Milton. A Chinese gardener drew the second prize of LI,OOO in a sweep on the Melbourne Cup. Mrs Jones, of Glenrowan, hotelkeeper, has been arrested for harboring the Kellys there. The united ages of three Victorian judges (Stawell, Barry, and Molesworth) is 207 years. ( ‘ . ‘, vM - u , _ i j - r , The wprj|d-renqwped pianist, HenryKetten, is announced jtq appear in Ppnedin pext month. . oaoi< ‘vi-; - One Melbourne man got up 14 L 2,000 sweeps, and fully one-third of his patrons were women. In the advertisements calling for shearers in the Christchurch papers, we notice that 15s is the price per 100. Messrs H. S. Fish and A. H. Ross were the two candidates nominated on Thursday for the Mayoralty of Dunedin. Diphtheria continues to be prevalent in the country districts of Canterbury. Several schools have been temporarily closed. The Victorian gold returns for nine months of the financial year are 60,0000z over the returns for the same period last year. Mr Murdoch the cricketer is likely to settle at Sandhurst, and great efforts will be T made to retain Mr Spofforth in Victoria. Frank White, a shearer, was accidentally killed on the Waimea Plains railway on Tuesday. He leaves a wife and two children. A. Dunedin tinsmith named Walker has been fined £lO, with the alternative of three months’ imprisonment, for making an illicit still. •, Over LI,OOO has been subscribed in New South Wales to defray the expenses of Trickett’s visit to England. It is considerably beyond what was expected. William Drysdale, who formerly carried on the business of drysalter in the Octagon, dropped dead in George-street. It is supposed that he died from heart-disease. Anne Storer, aged 14, whilst climbing the rocks at the Ocean Beach on 9th instant,, fellover the cliffs. Up to last accounts the girl remains insensible. The spine is injured. The Government Resident at Palmerston, a mining district in South Australia, reports that 20,000025. of gold have been taken in the Margaret field by about 600 Chinese, Seventy , ladies and gentlemen,'New'Zealand colonists, held a banquet in Melbourne last week. Judge Gillies occupied the chair, Messrs Peacock and Reid being vice chairmen. Numerous toasts were proposed, and a most enjoyable evening spent. Sir Henry Parkes, when laying the foundation stone of a school at Orange, made a speech in which he considered long parliamentary sessions a mistake. He said the increase in revenue for the past five months brought the surplus for New South Wales to L 200,000. t A gentleman in Dunedin has received a letter for Mr Alexander, stating that the Australian cricketers are anxious to visit New Zealand, playing two or three days in each of the principal towns, if suitable terms can be arranged. Their leave has been extended. A special meeting of the Executive on the 3rd inst. considered Kelly’s sentence. Mr Gaunson interviewed Mr Berry and protested against the haste of the trial. Mr Berry refused to alter the decision. . 'Mr Gaunson then interviewed the Governor with the same result. Judge Barry attended the Executive Council meeting, which resolved to carry out the sentence. An extraordinary phenomenon is now puzzling the inhabitants of Kaiapoi (says the Lyttelton Times), in the shape of supernatural stone-throwing. This has continued almost incessantly since mid-day on Thursday last, and has caused Mr William Ayers, and his family, living on the North road, no small annoyance. Although the police have been communicated with, and the neighbors have been on the look-out, the stones, &c., still continue to come down on the roof, but their source cannot be seen. A writer in the Melbourne Bulletin thus describes the appearance of Ned Kelly as seen in the dock:—There is nothing especially villainous about the outlaw’s appearance. He is a rather handsome and essentially manly looking fellow—just like many another young colonial Irishman who has taken to hard work instead of bushranging, flis principal characteristics are his height, which is above the average, and the largeness of his eyes, which are of a pale blue or steel grey hue, and are guarded by remark-ably-long eyelashes. His eyebrows are heavy and almost straight, and his lips, so far as one could see, are so thin and determined looking as to seem in some regards out of keeping with his Celtic cheek-bones. No one could see in his face evidence of the ferocity with which he is credited. Fourteen girls, students in a Western College, are Writing a continued story, which one of the country papers is publishing from week to week, Each girl in turn writes a chapter. Already twelve chapters have appeared, and the story thus far concerns twelve splendid fellows with long, silky mustaches, twelve beautiful maidens with hair that reaches the ground, and twelve stern fathers. -Six of the heroes had each a “St,” in his name, and the other six are “ De” somebodies.