The Blacks in the Far North.—

Southland Times, Volume 3, Issue 102, 16 October 1863, Page 7

The Blacks in the Far North. —

Chief Inspector Hamilton, writing by the last mail from the Far North, on the 9fh September, states that he had reached Angipena, and expected to arrive at Lake Hope in about a week. The only outrage which he mentions he had heard the blacks had commuted was an attack upon some women at an out-stttion, who were, however, preserved from injury by the opportune return of their husbands, one of whom caught one ef the natives and gave him a sound dressing. In some places unprotected hu's had been robbed, and some cattle had been speai-ed. The natives, however, appeared to have come down with no warlike inlentions as supposed ; but their mission seemed to have been to the Aroona Ranges, where they collected a kind of red clay, and then returned —South A ustralian Register. ■ "No doubt," said a footman to short little gentleman who had insulted him, • you think yourself three times as {rood as I am, for I am only a footman, while you arc a three-foot man." Why is a man in a rage like a hard baked loaf?— Because he is crusty.