ASSASSINATION ROME.

Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2154, 5 July 1875, Page 2

ASSASSINATION ROME.

While Rome. .was .enjoying her first genuine experienceof Garnivalj a horrible crime was perpetrated on one of the most prominent of her citizens. Raffaele Sonzogno was sitting alone at hia desk, in the printing office of ' the ultra-Democratic journal the Capitale, of which he was proprietor and editor. Suddenly his employes heard sounds of struggling in the room— an upper one in which he was at work, and one of them, Luigi Maracci, rushing upstairs, stopped a man -striving to disengage himself from thejgjftuLof Sonzogno, who cried out,, "X>^«B[Hgi, he hasmurdered : me !"-In the aw oTut- , taring these words Sonzogno fell a bleeding corpse to the ground, while < M. Maracci, seizing the fugitive by the throat, stopped his flight; The man, a tall athlete^ was proving too muchiot Luigi ; but ; was now assisted-iby hik feUow /workmenV^one of whom 'holding 't the " murderer , back, though still struggling ; forward, finally brought him .to _ a stand on the doorway where further assistance arrived; 1 The Carabineers took him into custody, and conducted him to prison. The body of Sonzogno has been emblamed and conveyed to the railway station. It was accompanied by the Workmen's Associations with their banners, the National Guards with their bands of music, a large number of Deputa? ties, Signor Quadrib, the recognised representative of the Mazzinians, Menotti Garibaldi, and thousands of citizens. The demonstration was 'Mr&y solemn and imposing. The prisoner is said to be a carpenter, but it is considered in Rome, from the' manner in which the murder was committed, that he must be a trained and professional asMMin.

DISCOVERIES IN EASTERN NEW GUINEA. Discoveries in Eastern New Guinea, by Captain: Moresby and the officers of H. M. S. Basilisk. By Captain J . Moresby, R.N. In November, 1873, a paper of mine, giving a brief outline of H.M.S. Basilisk's work in New Guinea, was read before you by your esteemed secretary, Mr Markham. Since then I was sent in command of an expedition to substantiate and follow up that work; and this paper will give you, I trust, a summary of the results accumulated during these two cruises. , I confess I am amazed to think that the vary outline of the third largest island in the world should have been unknown till now, and the navigation between its north-east coast and Australia invested with such imaginary dangers as to prevent communication between these shores: I will now first endeavour to show you what I have accomplished, in conjunction with my able assistants, Lieuteuant. L. Dawson, Admiralty Surveyor, Lieutenant Sydney Smith, Navigating Lieutenant Mourilyan, and the other officers of, the ship ; and secondly, you the information we have been able to gather concerning the natives. ...... j In brief, then, we have proved ithat East New Guinea ends not in a wedge, as hitherto imagined, but in a huge fork, the lower prong of which is cut up into a archipelago of islands. Between these new islandsand the peninsula which forms the northern prong a sheet of water lies, about 45 miles deep and 12 to 18 in breadth, named by me Sir Alexander Milne Bay. ", , I This new archipelago consists of about sixty islands, large and small. Of these the largest, Moresby Island, is about 36 in circumference ; Basilisk Island nearly aa large ; Hayter and Heath islands somewhat smaller ; many of the remainder, being from 4to 12 miles in circumference, and inhabited. These islands are most by lofty; and. volcanic, and richly wpbdeo). Moresby Island, a fair type of the rest, rises boldly from the sea.to a heiglltof 1,600 ft., rich in frui^bearing and timbertrees, whose dark tropic green is relieved by the various earth tints of the cultivated and terraced land, and the lighter greens of yam and tato. Here and there the: eye .zests on great grassy slopes that look like English meadows ready for the scythe ; buta giant scythe, indeed, would be needed to cut, them, for this grass h 12ft high. We found it very difficult to make our way , through to reach a good look put from abov^, and the only plan that succeeded was for the leading man of .the party jtp throw himself boldly forward and press the grass down\with his deadweight! We relieved each other frequently at this duty, but still found it exhausting and most unpleasant, as we bled all over fijom the sharp grass. On the shore are scattered the most singular dome-shaped grassy hillocks, which made for us natural surveying stations.. At the.., water line the shore is broken into fine deep water bays, Borne five of which are good harbors. yUlagea cluster to the edge of the calm waters, and here and there a cofel reef inn 3 out, from which the dusky fishers ply their taaki "-..-: ;p ■„:■:. ,:.;; I would Ihad the.;power to tell you of the glorious panorama which greeted us from the top of Glehton Island, the summit of which we had cleared with immense labor from itß giant forest trees, tttat the tiny "theodolite might sweep an 1 horizon never before gazed on by our race. Six hundred feet below us, almost as theplumb drops, the light waves curled ,on a snowy coral beach.. To the west the wooded peak3Vof Moresby Island closed the view ; but on every other side island . after island floated on the bosom of an intense blue sea, some volcanic, lofty, and rugged, others coralline, low, white and covered with graceful trees, with every .variety of form and tint, of light and shadow, in. the nearest ones, whilßt those teypnd ( faded out as they distanced into .dim'shapes, faint clouds— veiy dreams of islands-rgiving one a sense of the profusion of v creative power that was almost overwhelming. : . % . :■ The Basilisk has had the honor of fixing the position and laying down the ceastiline of the D'Entrecaateaux group. These islands were seen from a distance ty D'Entrecasteaux 94 years ago, as he sailed in search of La Perouse j but he never visited them, and he saw them on the east side only. : , We have proved them to consist principally of three large islands, separated by narrow straits from each other and the mainland of New Guinea ; and as their first surveyor, and ; Tisitorj I have taken leave to name,.: the islands Normanby,' JFerguflson, and Good enough ; and called the straits Ward Hunt, Goscben, Dawson, and Moresby. These islands extends north and south about 90 miles, and afford harbors and anchorages. i A crushing of 6431 tons of stone taken from the 870 ft level at the Great Extended Gross Beef, [Company's ground at Stawell gave an ayerage of 2oz 2dwt ljgr per ton or a totel pi,13520z. ; . . ,