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Colonist, Volume XV, Issue 1501, 13 February 1872, Page 4

An association, entitled the " Victorian and London Wine Company, Limited," is in course of formation in Melbourne.

It has been proposed to establish a hospital for the tr. at ment of contagious diseases in the Royal Park Melbourne.

The Victorias Beet-root Sngar Company are getting on swimmingly, and expect to have their crop ready for delivery by the Ist of June.

In one or two districts of Victoria the crops this year are finer than for seven years past, while in others they are quite burner! up. Wateb is so scarce at Ballarat that notice has been given that the supply will be out from persons watering the streei s, gardens, or yards.

Some of the Kyneton farmers have manifested a preference for Chinese labor, on account of the neat and substantial character of the work.

An enthusiastic writer to the Sydney Morning Herald suggests that there should be a general holiday and day of rejoicing throughout the Australian Colonies on the completion of the AngloAustralian telegraph.

A G-iRL named Elizabeth Ramsay was burned to death the other day at Deriiliquin, in consequence of following the foolish practice of pouring kerosine on to the wood in the fire-place to make it ignite. The kerosine exploded iv the can, and the girl was burned to suoh a degree that she died in two or three hours. The practice is a very common one, and has been the occasion of several shocking deaths of late.

Two juvenile bushrangers have been captured near Axedale, Victoria, after committing a daring robbery and flourishing a loaded pistol.

The 16 general hospitals in.London relieved upward of 500,000 persons in 1870.

The Queen of Holland has made the ascent of Vesuvius in a sedan-chair.

M, Gambetta's marriage is announced, but the bride's name is not given. The John Bull says that the Marquis of Bath has become a Romanist.

A Deaconess was ordained by the Bishop of London on All Saints' Day.

At Stratford-on-Avon, a boy had both his legs cut off by a steam plough.

The population of Glasgow is increasing at the rate of 10,000 per annum.

Messrs. Chubb and Son' have manufactured a monster safe, weighing 15£ tons.

The late baby-farming disclosures iv London have been dramatised in Italy.

A farmer in East Prussia has just died, aged 126. He leaves a bou, 109 years old. A second crop of strawberries was obtained in Cornwall in the beginning of November.