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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1700, 15 January 1874, Page 2

Sydney, Jan. 5. ; The iron trades have struck again, because the masters insist on only one . meal during working hours. : A young man named Dowdall son of an engineer at the abattoirs, has been run over and killed. Mrs Bunn, a resident of Ryde, whose husband was choked on Christmas Day, has poisoned herself. Six new members have been appointed to the Queensland Upper House, Mr Box, formerly a Melbourne resident, being among the number. The notice from Victoria as to the abrogation of the Border treaty will not be deab with by the Cabinet until Mr Parkes's return from the Hunter district. Professor Smith has been elected president of the Council of Education for the current year. Two vor three cabs have reappeared in the streets. *' A portion of the EJarrowby's cargo of sugars was sold to-day at a slight decline. Flour sold at L 1.5-; wheat 6s to 6s 3d. January 6. A daring robbery has been committed at the Sydney Museum. A case, containing about L4OO novth. of unique gold specimens, was adroitly opened during visiting hours, and the contents abstracted. The schooner Mary Ann, coal laden, has become a total wreck at the Clarence Heads. The crew were saved. The barque City of Melbourne has been wrecked near the Berrum River. A bushranger stuck up and robbed Mr Slocombe 40 miles from Goulburn yesterday. The fellow tied him to a tree and then attempted to cut his throat. He succeeded in inflicting . several wounds. Mr Slocombe then broke loose, when the bushranger tired two shots at him. The ball perforated his coat and glanced off his pocket-book. The steamer Flintshire, with the Queensland mail, lef t Batavia on Sunday.' All the Protostant bishops of Australia, with the exception of the Bishop of Melbourne, will attend at the laying of the foundation-stone of the Goulbura Cathedral. A new phase of the land question has been opened up by Riverina squatters taking up land under mineral leases. Chappell's aerial tramway is working successfully at Tambaroora. Sugars were sold at fully 10s lower today. The Oatchcart bleared for London with ]

a large cargo, including 230 tonß wheat and flour. January 7. The Cricket Association has decided to play eighteen against the English eleven. Twenty-five players have been named for practice, pending the final selection. H.M.S. Basilisk arrived from a cruise last night. She refits here before resuming the survey at New Guinea. . c^ Another private expedition to New Guinea is spoken of. ;_._■ The steam-tug Goolwa has been purchased by a Newcastle company for Lll,ooo. The Fiji Gazette states that the King told Commodore Goodenough that he opposed annexation. Tho sale of Mauritius sugars to-day showed a weak market. Tin^ore sold at 30s a ton lower. Yam Creek, Jan. 5.. It has been found that 20 mileß of the Adelaide Plains are under water, and many teams are unloading and agoing back. Mr Newman , was . determined.. £0 cross half a ton of goods, but his team of two horses and 14 buiio'eks got hopelessly bogged. A buggy further on shared the same fate. Adelaide, Jan. 5. During the last four days the weather has been' excessively hot, and fires in the country of daily occurrence. At Willuhga there has been considerable destruction of property on the farm lands. The extreme heat yesterday necessitated the use of punkahs in St. Luke's Church. A deputation from the Northern.Territory mining companies requested the Government to-day to introduce 200 coolies as an experiment. They also asked for a reduction in the overland telegraph x charges, and to both applications favorable consideration was promised. A miner named Hutton has committed suicide by cutting his throat. January 7. Dr Gosse has been appointed^ chairman of the Central Board of Health, at a salary of L6OO The certificate of Captain White, of the ship Iron King, has been suspended for six months, and that of the chief officer for three months, while the second ''fijjfc^- 1 has been censured for not taking obser>_> tions during the voyage. Several of the religious , bodies at Yorke's Peninsula intend holding a week of humiliation on accountof the drought there. „'',.