MULTUM IN PARVO.

Wellington Independent, Issue 43, 24 December 1845, Page 3

MULTUM IN PARVO.

From the Sydney Morning Herald. A boit, containing six men. who were conveying the mail from Spury Bay to Mane Island, about a fortnight since, upset, and all hani's perifhed.—Mr. William Warham, recently a Hobait Tjwn n\?rchant, died suddenly in the streets of that city, i few days since.—A. lods of ccp'psr is said 10 have been discovered in the neighbourhood of Hobart Town, X store f>r the pirpose of bonding- American cauirht oil is being ejected at Hobart Town.— The Commissariat of Van Diemrn's Land have accepted 10,000 bushels of wheat, deliverable at their stores in Hobart Town, at and under 7s. 2d. per 100 lbs. The amount tendered, exceeded 120,000 bushels. The highest rate, Bs. 7d. per 103 lbs., a fraction under ss. 6d per .buth.-l. .The lowest, 6s. Bd. per 100 lbs., or nt the rate of 4s. 3d; per bushel. •—The Cornwall (Van Dieraen's Land) Fire and Lifs Insurance Company, have declared a dividend of twr-nty five per cent, on their paid up.capital.— The Customs' Department; at Portland, is now supplied with a b»nt manned by a coxswain and four men'. —There were five vessels, loading at Geelontf, for London, lai-t week, and at Melbourne, only one. —It is expected that hundred bales of wool will be sent from Portland by the ship John. A Bdshma.n's v-fsiT to SfDNEV. —Yesterday afternoon a rather humorous occurrence tork place nearly opposite the house of Mr. Beame, Geor<estreet. A settler's bullock driver it appeared hul come down from the inte; tor with his master's team and he complained Ludly that -hi* employer hail kept him' without bis wages, in fact, to use his own woids, " without a shilling or a shirt. Meeting his master, he applied for some troney, and on ieceiving a rtfusil dec'ared he would not rctiirn up the country with the dray; therefore the matter proc. eded to collar the man—the man resisted —the muster struck him, and he u turned the blow with interest, causing his employer's cUrt-t to flow f.eely, and the ivories to chatter in his knowledge bjx ; a struggle ensued —Police were called, when the man without a " shilling or ft ghlt, , ' made a clean raa of it, ami got clear off.