PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL.

Cromwell Argus, Volume III, Issue 147, 3 September 1872, Page 6

PROVINCIAL AND COLONIAL.

A rich copper mine has been discovered near Buriowa, New South Wales. No mails for transmission r/'a California will be made up in Melbourne in future. A company is in course of formation ti grow rice and tobacco in the Northern Ter> ritorv.

Reports received in Sydney from Armidal state tliat the new reefs near Oakwood ar wonderfully rich.

A Groyunmth telegram states that, near No Town, a miner named Hall fell oven precipice 40 feet high, and was killed. A Dill has been introduced into the Legis lative Council by the Government for tin suppression of betting and belting houses. The overland telegraph line was expectec t<> be completed on August 22, and througl communication established between Adelaide and Port Darwin, a distance of 2000 miles. Tiie Admiraltyhaveboughtasmallschooner intended as the tirst of a fleet to be employic in the suppression of the Pacific slave trade, and to be manned from the Australian squadron.

A man named D.ildry recently attempted to hang himself to the bannisters of the Shakespeare Hotel, Auckland, with a woollen comforter. The comforter broke, and the mai was picked up nearly dead. A horrible murder was committed in Melj bourne on the -Ist nit., in a lane off Little, iiourkc-strect. A woman named Donohua killed another woman named O'Rourke, and concealed the body for a whole dav.

A Brisbane paper savs the people are mad; about copper in the Wide Bay and Burnett districts. The last new thing in Maryborough; amongst fast mining speculators is to wear in the necktie a gold pin surmounted by a specimen of copper ore. At the annual meeting of the Caledonian Company, at the Thames, it was stated that the tailings were valued at £12,000; and there was also a balance in the buik of £IO,OOO, while the value of the machinery and works was estimated at £50,000. The dividends paid during the year amounted to £154,440. The quantity of stone crushed was 15,777 tons, yielding 73.732 ounces of gold. A miner at the Thames lately lost and recovered £2 in a singular manner. The Guardian savs that he was desired by one of the men below to send down some paper to serve as a wad ; putting his hand in his pocket lie sont down all the loose paper he had. The shot was duly fired. The man left the mine, and u in n searching for the .€-' could not find; it : singular to say, on going over the quartz on the following morning, he discovered them ail safe, only a little smoked. They had been used as a wad.