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ORANGE.
MARCH 28.-At the termination of the races
on Friday, 19th, arather dexterous trick was suc- cessfully played on one of our storekeepers, in passing off a bad £10 note. In the midst of the heavy rain which fell about nightfall, a man rode up to Dalton's store and asked for two pounds of tobacco, which was served to him by yeung Dalton ; he handed a purse to the lad, and told him there were two ten pound notes in it, to take one and give him the change. Dalton did so, and preferring one not so much torn as the other, gave the man nine pounds four shillings in change.
Some time after this, the district constable, wanting some change, went to Dalton's, when the lad gave Fitzpatrick the ten-pound note, and it was only when the district constable was endeavouring to get change for it that the for- gery was foundocit, and instead of itbeing aten, it WBS only a one pound note of the Union Bank of Australia. Many parties here took the note, and would have cashed it had they sufficient change, and so cleverly was the fraud accom- plished, that it was only by holding it to the light you could discover it. From some infor- mation, the district constable apprehended a man, at Guyong, on Wednesday last, and from certain circumstances, especially a cheque for £4 being found onhis person, and this being part of the change given by young Dalton, there is every reason to believe the bird is caught. He has been brought before the Bench, and remanded for the attendance of some wit-
nesses.
Another of those melancholy instances of loss of life, from the abuse of spirituous liquors, un- fortunately too prevalent, occurred in this di¡> trict on Wednesday night last. A man named Francis Atkinson, better known as " Scruffy Frank," called at the residence of Samuel Dixon, at the Heifer Station, about six miles form this township, near midnight. Dixon having known the man previously, let him in, and prepared a bed and some supper for him, the latter, however.he partook of but sparingly, and was very much the worse of drink ; ho had a bottle with rum in it, and two kegs of the same, in a bag across his horse's saddle. Dixon took a glass of rum with him, and then helped him to bed. In the morning Dixon went to call him, and found him lying on his face quite dead. On the afternoon of that day, an inquiry was held by John Arkins, Esq., J.P., at the residence of Dixon, when the foregoing facts were deposed to. Dr. Bell being sworn, stated there were no external ap- pliances which would lead him to account for the death of deceased ; by a post mortem examination, he found the liver, lungs, and heart greatly engorged with dark grumous blood, and from those appearances, together with the history of the case, was of opinion deceased came by his death from suffocation while in a state of helpless drunkenness.
For the last four or five days the weather has been very warm. This day about noon, we were visited with a severe thunder and rain storm from the north-west, with hurricane gusts of wind, which lasted about two hours.