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The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848-1954) (about)
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COUNTRY NEWS.
A young man named Rule, living near Wangaratta, has, it is believed, been drowned in a flooded creek near his home. His body has not yet been found.
A skeleton, behoved to be that of an old shepherd who was' lost last summer while driving sheep across the ranges near Harriet- ville, was found on Saturday last, and awaits inquest.
It is reported by tho Ararat Advertiser that Mr. O'Callagban, of tbo Shamrock Hotel, Ararat, and chairman of the land lcagne of the district, will offer himself for that con- stituency in the event of a general election.
A fatal accident has occurred at Cockatoo. An old man of sixty years of ago, named John Leatty, whilo returning home on Satur- day night, after spending the evening drink- ing, fell into a hole containing water, and was found there the noxt day, dead.
According to a Beechworth paper, the Molbourno polico have had positive informa- tion that one at least of tho gang of the no- torious bushranger, Blue Cap, has crossed into North Gipps Land, and the polico haye instructions not to let him return to New South Wales.
Charles M'Lcwis, the man charged with at- tempting to murder an old man named George Vean, at Talbot, was brought before the Police-court on Monday, when it was stated that Vean would not bo in a condition to attend for three months. The prisoner was
lemanded.
A Chinaman, named Ah Loui, stole £35 in notçs, from a cash-box in the shop of Mr. Palmer, near Talbot, on Saturday. Ho entered the shop to sell gold, but seeing that no one was in at the time, ho turned his op- portunity to account by abstracting the money. He was followed, arrested, and
rcroonded.
Mr. Julius G. Krzossa, of Portland, about whose recent so-called mysterious disappear- ance a paragraph was lately published in the Guardian, has been heard of, and that journal now naively remarks :--'Wo regret that the paragraph appeared, but, if gentlemen will act in such an eccentric way, they must bo prepared to bear the consequences.
On Friday last, an accident occurred at tho Cambrian claim, Malmsbury, whereby a man named Williamson was seriously injured. Ho bad gone in with another man to ¡a small smithy near the claim, and, unaware that thcro was a tin canister with powder near, thuy commenced to blow the bellows, when a spark from tho fire ignited tho powder, and injured Williamson seriously in tho face and
bands.
" We have reason to beliovc," says the Ovens Advertiser, " that the laying out of tho Beechworth Lunatic Asylum grounds will bo entrusted to a gentleman in all probability destined to bo one of its future inmates, as be is at present a patient in the Yarra Bend Asylum, tho grounds of which ho has laid out with great good taste. The gentleman in question, a lunatic, is spoken of as being one of the best landscape gardeners in the colony ; in fact, the bçnt of his mind takes this direc- tion, consequently he brings a greater amount of care and diligence to bear on the work entrusted to his charge than perhaps a sane person would."
"One of the settlers resident near Tatyoon bad a narrow escape from death by light- ning, on Wednesday week. The man was driving homo in a kind of spring-cart," says the A rarat Advertiser,' ' ' and becoming fright' ened at the storm, drove as quickly as possible, with the view of obtaining shelter beneatl some trees which grew in the vicinity. While there the lightning must have been attracted by the tiring of one of the wheels, for the driver states that he was literally blinded with the glare of the lightning, and unable to keep the horse quiet. While pulling at the ruins, and as the man thought certain o: being killed, tho horse suddenly stopped hu ellorts to get away, and stood comparativelj quiet, trembling violently. It was not with out the greatest trouble the animal could bl got to move when the storm was compara tively past, and it has sinco been found tua the horse is stiff and harmed in some way that the whole of the felloes of one of thi wheels are scorched, and that tho shaft ant bedwork of the cart on the same side an also severely scorched." '
Tbo Kyneton Guardian thus writes with re spect to a soi-disant " travelling evangelist,' who has been for some time staying in tha locality :-" Mr. Bamber strains after effect lie is nothing if not noisy ; whether in praye or praise or exhortation, there is an amouu of impropriety in his words and stylo wbicl cannot fail to be most offensive to any well ordered mind. It is a venial offence, perhaps to murder the Queen's English ; but when i man essays to lead an audienco in the matte of public devotion, wo have a right to expec that the language will at least be as choia and the manner as respectful as that whicl would be employed by one human bein¡ towards anothor. Mr. Bambor's viows aro
however, different, and bis appeals to and mention of the Deity are rash aud familiar Sacred things aro burlesqued, and Sab bath solemnities travestied. 'Bones,' witl his blackened foco screeching tho Doxolog; on the platform at Exeter-hall, would not bl more out of place than Bamber in the pulpit He grossly misstates historical facts, and ha a theory of his own as to the object of th building of the Tower of Babel. A'Beckett' Comic History of England would-be dull com pared with Bamber's jumble ofbiblical his tory. This youthful agitator has not confinei his labours to the land, he has conducted on of his followers-an elderly lady, by the wa -into the waters of the Campaspe. Thi occurred on Satuiday afternoon last, unde circumstances which, if reports are to b relied on, would make our Baptist friend
blush."
"The 'tale of a coat' which was going th rounds of the Dargo-flat a few days ago, remarks the Gipps Land Times, " is amui ing. It appears that a certain boniface i that neighbourhoodhad granted tho manage ot the cuisine department tbo privilege c suspending his Sunday coat in his (the pre piictor's) bedroom, the moro respectable ga: ment being donned only on special occt mons. The accouchement of the landlad was an event which even the cook considere of sufficient importance to be honoured by change of apparel, and on application bein made to the master, the reserved gamier was handed down from tho nail au put in use. Now, the landlord, in
thoughtless moment the evening before, ha thiust no less than £30 in bank-note into one of tho pockets of this idéntico coat, aud forgot all about the transactio when delivering it over to the owner. Th cook, it appears, not being aware of th amount of money in his possession, an feeling anxious for a spree, disposed of th coat to a neighbour, who, he affirms, care fully examined it before making the pui chase. The landlord in question, on oscei taining his mistake, made all haste to gc possession of the money ; but neither th garment nor the £30 were to bo found. Th coat was said to have been disposed of
second timo to a stranger, and so was los sight of, and tho incautious boniface has t content himself with a determination to b more careful of the manner in which h malees his deposits for the future."
' {' One of those circumstances which aro, ur fortunately, of too frequent occurrence i: thiB colony, and which reflect seriously o: the inefficiency of the labour mart system, says tbo Gipps Land Times, "has just bec: brought under our notice. Three weeks ag an application was forwarded to a leadin servants' registry oflico in Melbourne for female servant for an hotel on one of th principal gold-fields in the north-easter: portion of Gipps Land. A handsome salar was offered, and a young girl between sovei teen and eighteen years of age, of prepossesi ing appearance, respectably connected, bt who had a disagicement with her family,_ en braced tbo opportunity of procuring a Bitui tion at such a distance from home, whci she Would bo free from maternal restrain The deluded girl's ideas of gold-field life wei soon dispelled, when, ou arriving at hi destination, after a difficult journey of 2t miles, she found herself located in a miso able hovel containing two small room answering the double purpose of a shan: and a store, at a distance of ten mil from the nearest township, and in u obscure part of the bush, three miles froi a public road. The situation was renden still more trying by the absence of ai female associate, the sole proprietor beit a roan of middle age, and his on customers the reefers engaged on ti mines near the sbauty. Finding her mi take, the girl at once wrote to her friends i Melbourne, describing hor miserable situ tion, tho dangers of which she was probab unable sufficiently to realise The wor phase of the story is, if she had the pecunia means to return an opportunity seldom offe of reaching Salo under adequate proteetio whilst three months' residenco (the term i engagement) in a place such as wo havo d scribed cannot tend to improve the charact of any young girl, however blameless. Wbil offeneçs of this kind are allowed to go u punished, it is not surprising that the to of female society in Victoria docs not attain higher moral standard."