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Grey River Argus, Volume XIV, Issue 1743, 5 March 1874, Page 2

The Pleasant Creek News says ; — "VeryH decided action has been taken lately b]l the Stawell quartz-crushersj in reference! to thB jumped claim known aa No 4 North Scotchman's, which has been the soura of great excitement and litigation. Th( new company formed in the interests o the jumpers have latterly been raising stone, but the crushing companies have one and all, positively refused to crush it This may be taken as a pretty strong expression of opinion here as to the merit* of the celebrated ' jumps,' It is understood that this claim is still in litigation] and that proceedings concerning it will shortly be resumed in the law courts." I The Church of England Assembly ofl Victoria has fixed the salary of the BiahoJ of Ballarat at LlOOO per annum, ancfl named that of the Bishop of Melbourne afl L2OOO. These are the prizes of the church ß and they are to be given ' outside of thfl colony. It is expressly ordered that thefl high offices in question shall be conferred on such English clergymen as can be prefl vailed to give up their prospects for A colonial bishopric, and our own rainisteriH are placed outside the pale of selection afl a kind of inferior article. Any clergyman who come 3 to Victoria to take charge of al parish, or who enters the church in VicM toria, will, in future, subscribe to a conl fession of inferiority, and admit that it ifl right that he should be passed over wheiH its highest honors come to be awardedH He will be doomed to obscurity and aifl average salary of L3OO per annumH Toung men of parts, one imagines, willbfl rather apt to serve their Maker and theifl fellows-man in those paths of life where n<H stigma is cast upon them because* they arfl colonial, and thus the pulpit power of th^| church will be seriously weakened. Th^| assembly is quiet enough ; but could th^| congregations be directly consulted, thejH would hardly allow the status of thei^H ministers to be lowered, even in order