AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 3, Issue 261, 17 January 1879, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

Melbourne, Jan. 13.

Twenty of Kelly's sympathisers have been remanded for a week by the Beechworth Bench.

The balance of Lady Robinson's jewellery and a large quantity of other jewellery, the proceeds of other robberies, were found in Montgomery's lodgings. He probably obtained admission during the reception, and effected the theft after the ceremony was over. Mr Lalor will probably visit Sydney to confer on the border duties question. Jan. 14. The Kellys are reported to have been seen on Friday on the Lachlan. They had four fine horses and a pack horse. When noticed they broke camp and rode rapidly away, abandoning the pack horse, which was knocked up. Two troopers and three black trackers procured revolving rifles from a neighboring station and pursued on Saturday. The trackers have not since been heard of. Jan. 15. Three prisoners have escaped from the Williamstown gaol by forcing the casement. A telegram states that the Loch Suart, on her return voyage from Melbourne, was wrecked [on the coast of Ireland, near Belfast. Pearce, the survivor of the Loch Ard disaster, sailed aboard her. Brisbane, Jan. 13. Behrens, the merchant, who became insolvent, has been found drowned in the river. He had been 30 years in the Colony.