SYDNEY.

Auckland Star, Volume II, Issue 561, 27 October 1871, Page 2

SYDNEY.

Octobek 21.— X distinguished Russian naturalist-, named M. Yon Macl-iv, bus arrived at the Siimoan group in the Russian ship Vitias, on bis way to New Guinea.—/ The dead body of a man named Marlin Ma'oney, was found in the waters of the Sydney Cove on the 13 Ih instant. —Last Thursday week, a terrific hailstorm burst over the neigbourhood of Junee, near Wagga Wagga. '1 he i ailatones are said to have boon the size of'pigeons' egg-» and to have covered the ground for some time

like snow to the depth of several inches —o 1 Saturday evening last, a man, named Samni 1/ John Butler, was pitched out of a doecart • I George-street South, and killed.— On Sund' 1" 1 1 the 15th instant, the heat all d»y was fearf ?f' 1 oppressive. A man named William Ohandl I of Ejde, had a sun-stroke, as he was pasa; 6*' B through Balmain, and narrowly escarp I death.—Mr. Anthony Trollope arrived y Mudgee from Bathurst on the 13th instant and visited Gulong on Saturday last. Onth 14th he left Mudgee for Forbes.—On the I^l instant, an infant child, named C!**wtie * saved from being crashed to death at N e M castle, by the courage and presence of nri n( i V an engine driver. The child was snatched ! from under the wheels of the train at th I Newcastle , terminus. —The first patient ad* mitted into the Gulong hospital on the 16th instant, was an old man, with both logs broke by falling down a shaft ninety feet deep.-.! man, named Hawkey, at Tomerong, in th« Shoalhaven district, was shot at by his own " daughter, on the 10th instant. The man U not dead, but seriously wounded. The girl« in custody.^—The"City Council of Sydney have passed a:very salutary by-law against indecent placards.—dhe Government intend at once to bring in a measure for dealing with the waste * lands of the colony.—The Eev. Joseph Charlej riumner, Df an of St. Mary's Cathedral, an aged and much respected clergyman of the Roman Catholic Church, died at Subiaco, near P a p ra . matta, on | 'J uesday morning last, the 17th instant. This gentlemnn was in the 72nd year of his age, and l.lie 35th of Ihb priesth>ud having first come out to this colony in 1835.-1 Our " Permanent Defence Force" v making a I highly ; satisfactory progress. Artillery and ■ iulani.ry .amount.to. 200. men .^ . .