AUSTRALIAN.

Inangahua Times, Volume V, Issue 18, 9 January 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALI AN.

Syi?nkY', Jnminr> 91 Tho Enaby from' Sydney has bruunht only one day's- Intel* nevr*. The Sydney Ilorald of the 31st con-tnius-n letter Irom E. H. Alinton,.. \v>ho has just returned from New Gunea, m> which ho expresso* siirprtsu nt (ho stiite--mci»t of Mr JjVdhnmcs, police mauls* trnlo- nt StmnTsol,- re^ardini* tho tlinO)V<'ry of gjdd rtt l ? ivpim. Minion mjjs he haahnd^x.'teen years'" experience as ;*■ minim* enuinucr- and prospector, ami rluriir^ three weolw ut Pnp'uu he vxploroti the crci'ks nnd prospected tlio hniiku and river.'*, also at llio foot of Urn falls nnd huso of tho ranees ' and found no $oUW whntevoi\ flu 'touM flif^' qjuiHtiijp of niictt) vfhiahf look* liko «oIJ, and which hu wys- would deceive any non^cxperi, oncwl miner or prospector. Ho thinks that (roldi«, boinß a botanist, wtfs dot* cciveil by tho niion. Minton broticht' sand' away' from different places bo triod' nml had it analysed' by one orthemost experienced analytical chemists in Sydney who'proiiouuacd it micflcrous sund, of' no volue. Of til* hailstonoß near Albury\-oitV)O8 of ioo from one to ftrr.r iriohos thick- fell.Thtostorm wns wjrst ncart'MWvmter. .eovom^wtth smull farms,- blip 1 crop?- were jvist'.ready;lor tho niaohineff. Within 20 minuter pf the commoflcemcirt' of Iho slorm'H' d<r en pndiloriks vrere 1 completely ruined, 'Phe storm eirt down thtferops*us neatly as^if repeurs lind'hccfl'-ttt' vM>rk. Tlio-'uruiivwofMiotunlly^ Unttcrori ' lnto-' the pround. Tho Ikilslone* falling dv« nutclVes in tho sides of bin k«o»- tfroß j'.slieod 1 oIP wedges of bni*lf ns 11 though nn nxfr had bo n at work*' Tlioiron roofs^vero ponetrnted as if of brcwiv paper.' Shinnln roofs were uimlilo to withstand tjie" forc(f witW 1 wliieh the blocks of ico deflcenHctl? ]^iUvln cf all kinds- were fbrcud tft ffbek shelter in" l human habitations Pfocl<« of pnrrots took ixp their sheltcr'dui'inj* tlio .stormWii hoiiHcs,' dead birdtt strewed' tho ground in all 'directions;* pome flattened out undfcr lumps of ice. .Kain fallowed anrl'gullfcs* rlry for year«'beeahii*fon'niiftft rivora^weoph\\t nwayvaluablo;'»t»'ras; Many /farmers are complbhity bcg"ired.'' ' •