INTERCOLONIAL.

Southland Times, Issue 1986, 21 September 1874, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

Sydney, Sept. 9. The late Mr Moffiitt's estate has been proved under half a million sterling. He has loft £250 each to five of the principal local charities, and the remainder to his family. The St. Ann Station, near Townsville, Queensland, belonging to Messrs Rourke and Munro, has been stuck-up by blacks. Two men were killed, and another mortally wounded. One hundred and eighty-eight tons of tin ore were shipped from Brisbane, for Sydney, during the week ending sth September. An accident occurred on the railway at Newcastle on sth September. The Wallseud train knocked down a mm, and ran over his arm. < Mr R. H. Blackford, of G-oulburn, has beeu drowned while crossing the Wollondilly River iv a buggy. The bo ly was recovered a quarter of a mile frrn the scene of the accident. The Messages de Saigon, from Bordeaux to Noumea, was totally wrecked entering Bullarie Pass. The ship and cargo were sold for £800. Mr Samuels, the Postmaster- General, has arranged for steamers to carry the Californian mails for the next two months. Holloway's sentence for the Parramatta murder has been commuted to imprisonment for life. A great bush fire has occurred at Kiama. Five homesteads were destroyed, and a tract of country of about 12 miles was laid bare. Adelaide. A message was sent from this to Bombay, and a reply received here within eight minutes of the time of sending the message. The steamer G-othenburg sailed from Port Darwin on August 29, with 55 passengers and 2000oz. of gold. The equatorial telescope for the Observatory is to be shipped in the September mail steamer. Mr Hesketh, of the Victoria Deaf and Dumb Institution, has been appointed master of the Adelaide Blind, Deaf, and Dumb Asylum. Ten persons have already been admitted. The second reading of the Bill prohibiting the importation of other than safety matches has been carried. Four women of the town have been committed for trial for the manslaughter of the infant of one of them. Messrs Gray and M'Donald have been appointed judges of the intercolonial flaxharvesting machinery. A message was sent to Bombay on 2nd September, and a reply received, in eight minutes. Mr Boucaut has given notice of motion in favor of payment of members. Mr Angas's vote of censure against the Government for making appointments contrary to the Civil Service Act, was negatived, but a resolution has been carried for a select committee of inquiry as to whether a certain applicant for an appointment had not been bought off. Typhoid fever has broken out at Reedbeds. Dr Miiner, of the Northern Territory, reports that only four coolies are suffering from disease. They are a useful body of men, but a great many are not fit for miners. Some are good gardeners and mechanics. Two parties are about commencing road work for the Government, and some are now employed on thejetty, and prove themselves excellent at the pick and shovel and with the barrow. At the Reefs two alluvial prospecting parties are meeting with success. On account of the tedious litigation at the courts it is impossible to get justices to sit on the bench. A bill providing compensation for accidents on Government railways has been introduced. The National Marine Insurance Company shows £2400 loss last half-year. Successful experiments have been made with the colonial life-saving rockets. Mr John Waterhouse, a wealthy old colonist, lately deceased, has made several bequests to charitable institutions. The sheep-weed is spreading in some parts of the colony, and injuring the land, i An old German named Scbulze, who died in May last, is now supposed to have been poisoned by his daughter. The barque Wave Queen has become a total wreck at Sivoli Bay. All hands were saved. She had as cargo 75 tons of flour and 2000 bags of wheat, intended for Sydney. Two million letters and over one million newspapers passed through the Post office during the first half of this y ear. Sir James Fergusson's likeness is to be hung in the Council Chamber. "Wheat is dull at 5s 4d. Tasmania. Captain Long, an old resident of Georgetown, dropped dead while boarding the Derwent on her arrival from Melbourne. The Othello has arrived at Hobart Towu with 92 tuns of oil, chiefly obtained in the Australian Bight, where there were plenty of whales. The vessel had been L 3 months out. The Key. James Garrett, moderator of the Tasmauian presbytery, is dead. A publican named Keene has been committed for trial for failing to pay over stakes won by Bird. Tne weather is the severest which has been experienced for many years. The hills around Hobart Town are covered with snow. Two pure bred rams, imported by the Berean, from London, and intended for shipment to New Zealand, have been destroyed to-day, having shown unmis takeabie symptoms of foot-and-mouth disease. They were upwards of four months on board before the symptoms appeared.