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FROM 12TH FEBRUARY TO 19TU FEBRUARY. I
The movement in favour of so<ne suitable monument to the memory of Captain Cook begins to make satis- factory progress. Parties, however, are rather divided ¡ some being for a city clock-tower, and some ft.r a statue only. There was a largo meeting at the Victoria Theatte on Munday evening last, at which Sir Alfred Stephen presided.
At West Maitland a Btrong feeling has been mani- fested against the Oidium Prevention Bill, now before Parliament. ' ,
A heavy southerly gale Bet in on Friday, the 12th instant, and continued for many hourB. A very high sea WOB rolling on the coast, Some damage was sus- tained by the shipping. One schooner (of 40 tons) foundered near Redhead. During the week (since Tuetday last) it lias, for the most part, been tolerably
fins -»eather. '
' The Newcastle Chronicle states that the Rev. Dr. Steel has raised £1200 in the Northern districts for the Presbyterian College.
Saturday last, the 13th instant, ws.6 appointed as a day of humiliation nnd prajer for rain, but the rain having falltn plentifully it was but little observed.
On the 14th instant the skeleton of a man, with a .double handled gun by his «ide, was found by the blacks, near Grafton, on the Clarence. U is supposed to bo the body of Charles Waltz, of Ulmarra, who, about hftetn months ago, when about to be arrested, «eizcd a gun and ran into the bush, and, it is believed,
shot himself.
A man at North Wogga Wagga, on the 10th instant, »as attacked in MB eleep by a native cat, nnd
seveiely bitten in the neck.
The body of a suicide1, named Dr. Plomely, was found last Tuesday af-ern^on in the bush, at Peter- sham, where the unhappy man had opparently
strangled himself.
The St..Andrew's Cathedral Close Bill has at
1' ngth passed through both Houses, after haying met
vuth much opposition.
Three hundred thousand sheep left the plains, near Bombala, for the Snowy Alps, to look fir feed. It has been said that sheep will not bring one shilling per head on terms.
On Saturday last a boy, named George William Bagnell, lost his life at Spring Flat, on the Western district, in the attempt to save the life of his little brother, who had fallen into a waterhole. The child was saved, but the brave little lad was unhappily
drowned.
On Wednesday last, at the Water Police Office, Albert Ross Hovell, master of the schooner Young Australian, and a coloured man, named " Rangi," were committed to take their trial at the Central Criminal Court, on the charge of having, in the month of October lost, near Apii, in the New Hebtidean group, murdered threo natives of that group.
Colonel Waddy, of H. M.'s 50th Regiment, was gazetted Mojor-Gcneral on the 5th of December last. It is understood that the 50th Regiment will embark on board the Himalaya, on the 6th March next, for England.
It is reported that two American Beamen, who had lodged a complaint of their captain and his officers, have been illegally sent off to California in irons.