Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 - 1957), Friday 17 October 1851, page 2


DOMESTIC INTELLIGENCE.

NEW TOWNSHIP.—A site for a township, to be called Corinella, has been fixed upon at Cori-nella, Settlement Point, Western Port Bay.

BUNINYONG.—Mr John Green has been ap-pointed Clerk of Petty Sessions at Buninyong

GEELONG CIRCUIT COURT The Supreme Court will sit in its Criminal Jurisdiction at Geelong on Monday next. The calendar is said

to be a light one.

THE CITY COUNCIL - This body met yesterday, but we are compelled to postpone till to-mor-row the report of their proceedings.

THE GOLD AND THE GOVERNMENT - A copy

of the above pamphlet of the above pamphlet has reached us. Mr A'Beckett appears to have paid some attention to the all absorbing topic; but we doubt whether his little tract throws any very avail-able light upon the subject.

RECEIPT OF GOLD AT THE COLONIAL TREA-SURY -- The amount of gold received yesterday, under the Government escort, was 3841 oz. 4

dwt. 5gr., viz., from the Turon, 3205 oz. 6 dwts ; Ophir, 134 oz. 13 dwts. ; Bathurst, 501 oz. 5 dwts, 5 grs. --- S. M. Herald, Oct. 10.

JAVA.-- We leam from Le Mauricien, that the

Javanese pirates were still pursuing their career of blood and robbery, notwithstanding the vigilance of the cruisers. Junks from Padong, Plaang, Rangoon, and Macao had been lately at-

tacked by them, the crews murdered, and the

cargoes seized. At Singapore and Sirangong the tigers were committing frightful ravages. At Sirangong, says Le Mauricien,no less than fifty-three man had been destroyed by these ferocious beasts in the space of two months. -- S.

M.Herald.

CAPE OF GOOD HOPE.-We have received complete files of Capo Town and Graham's Town

papers to the 8th of July. The few August

papers received by the Rajah of Sarawak, were deficient in news from the frontier. By the last

frontier post, intelligence had been received of a severe fight between General Somerset's division and the rebels. The loss of life on both sides was great. The 74th Highlanders, who had just arrived, and whoso gallantry is mentioned in the highest terms, lost three killed, and ten or eleven wounded. The whole of the Hottentot population of Graham's Town bad been disarmed. The accounts on the whole are of the most gloomy and unsatisfactory character. -- S. M. Herald.

STEAM COMMUNICATION WITH ENGLAND VIA THE CAPE.-Extract from a Letter dated Lon-don, 17th June, received per Resolute :-" A pétition signed by many houses in the Austra-lian trade will be presented to the House of Commons to-day or to-monow, praying they would cause the recommendation of the Com-mittee to be carried into effect-namely, to establish a line of screw steamers via the Cape. We are using every exertion to urge the matter forward. We hear a counter petition will be presented in favour of the Indian route, but not

by way of Torres Straits. The Directors of the Screw Steamship Company are deliberating about their sending their new ship, the Harbin-ger, of 900 tons, on to Sydney. She will be ready for sea by the middle of August. The Company have now on the stocks, three ships of 1750 tons each, one of which will be ready by the end of the year, the other two in nix months afterwards.-- Sydney Morning Herald

INQUESTS- An inquest was held yesterday, at the Britannia Hotel, in Swanston-street, on the body of Darius M'Crath, the unfortunate man who was killed the preceding day, by being run over by a loaded dray in Little Bourke street. A verdict of accidental death was re-turned. An inquest was also held on the body of William Kelly, who died in the hospital from the effects of a self-inflicted wound in the throat. The verdict of the jury was, that the said William Kelly, whilst in a state of delirium tremens, the result of previous intemperance, did, by means of a certain razor, inflict a severe wound in his throat, of which injury, after lingering ten days, he expired.

THE SEVEN POUND LUMP. -In our yesterdays issue we mentioned that the report of a lump of gold 7lbs. weight having been received at the Union Rani was incorrect. The truth of the matter is, that a specimen, and a most beauti-ful one, was brought from Ballarat by a Mr. Woodlock. It weighed five pounds avoirdupois, and consisted of quartz mixed with nuggets of gold,of which there must have been about 60 per cent. The sample is the most splen-did one that has been procured from Ballarat, and was exhibited yesterday to the gaze of ad-miring hundreds. A report was also rife yester-day, that a lump of forty eight pounds «eight had arrived in town, but we hear that the ru-mour originated in a joke.

RUMOUR -- Two parties arrived in town yes-terday, from the Ballarat diggings, named Yeo-man and Harris, who state that on camping out for the night, a day's journey from the diggings, they found two men with their throats cut, having been apparently concealed for some days. We have been informed that the parties are men of veracity, and as the circulation of such a report could not profit them, there may be some truth in the statement, though no official notice of the same has been received in town -Geelong Ad-vertiser [ In reference to the above rather startling announcement, our Geelong Corre-spondent says - It is stated that two men, named Yeoman and Harris, found two dead bodies on the road to Buninyong, each with his throat cut. I spent about three hours this morning, huting for information, and am glad to inform you that so far from Yeoman having seen such a thing, he was absolutely thunderstruck when he saw the remarks in the paper, and declares that he knows nothing whatever of any such occurrence. From what I have heard from other sources, I am also inclined to think it one more of the many unfounded reports at which all appear eager at present to catch ]

A COUNTRYMAN IN MELBOURNE- An old rus-

tic named John Hazell appeared on Monday before Mr Smith to prefer a charge of robbery

against a female who called herself Ann Hart. The prosecutor stated that he had only recently come to Melbourne, and on Monday last, having drank several glasses of ale and spirits in the course of a ramble through the town, was accosted by the prisoner, who asked him to treat her. The pair accordingly adjourned to a house in Bourke street, and the old fellow sent for some brandy, which they discussed together, sitting on a sofa the while. By and bye, he felt the girls hand in his pocket, and accordingly

seized her by the wrist-at this time she had

in her hand an opossum-skin purse, belong-

ing to him, which when he entered the house contained a £5 note and two £1 notes. He opened the purse, and found that his money had " taken unto itself wings " and flown away, and he immediately accused his fair companion of

having robbed him. She, of course, indignantly denied the charge, and ultimately rushed out of the house and jumped into a cab, which drove off with her. The prosecutor followed the vehicle, exclaiming that he would "stick to the pas-senger " and the driver at last stopped and desired his fair to alight. She did so, and pro-secutor again charged her with the robbery. An altercation then ensued between them, which was cut short by the arrival of Mr. Chief Con-

stable Bloomfield, who took the girl to the station house, whereon being searched twelve shillings and sixpence were found on her person. Mr. John Stephen appeared for the prisoner, and cross-examined the prosecutor, with the view of proving that the girl never saw a purse in his possession, and that he was also too drunk to know much about the matter. The old man, however, adhered very closely to his statement, and the prisoner, who wept bitterly, was com-mitted to take her trial.