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Colonist, Volume XI, Issue 788, 17 December 1867, Page 3

The Late Obange Outeage in Melbottbne.—... At the Melbourne Police Court, on Not. 29, James Hines, James Girvin, Samuel Clarke, and William Frencman, were charged with shooting with intent to kill, and after a little evidence was taken, they were remanded for seven days, as one of the principal .witnesses for the prasecufcion was lying in the hospital sufferiug from gun-shot wounds. Girvin and Clnrko were admitted to bail in two sureties of £100 each, and Frenchman and Hines in two sureties of £50 each. The Herald of Dec. sth, says :—" The boy Cross, who was Bhot in the Stephen-street outrage on Wednesday night last, is still at the Hospital, and progressing slowly. Yesterday afternoon James Mitchell, said to be connected with the disturbance, was arrested on a charge of ' shooting with intent to kill.'" «■ A fibe broke out at Rockhanipton, Queensland, on the morning of the 19th-November, and resulted in the destruction of thirteen shops and a large hotel. Most of the buildings were constructed of wood, and contained articles of a highly inflammatory nature. ' The excitement in Brisbane, Queensland, respecting the goldfield lately discovered near Kockliampton, is increasing. Great numbers of persons have left and are leaving, and hundreds are said to be on the road. Various private telegrams have been received in • Brisbane, all indicating the faith of the persons sending] them in the success of the goldfield. The field is extensive, and likely to be permanent. ' Lb Ah Cheokg has been committed for trial at the Dunedin Supreme Court sittings, for the murder at Kawarau Gorge, in that province^ <;' ■, - The c.B. Aibedaie took 20,000 pSinces of gold from the West Coast Goldfields to Wellington, for shipment to England, »ia Panama. ■.„. A kobxheen paper states that "during the late shooting season, as many as 3000 brace of pheasants have been killed aad, accounted for In the province of Auckland," .