AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume IV, Issue 1203, 11 December 1873, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

THE DAPHNE KIDNAPPING DIS

CLOSURES.

A WEALTHY PENTRIDGE PRISONER,

REMARKABLE CHARGE OF ENTRAP

PING FEMALES.

MELBOURNE.

Monday, December I.*. Further particulars are publishod of the kidnapping and other outrages on board the Daphne, in the South Seas, and it is publicly stated that a son of Captain Devlin, of Molboxirne, was captain of the vessel, and that young Hepburn, of Hawthorne, was the super-cargo.. They both left tho colony at the .time that Mount and, Morris were tried, and have not since-been heard of.

A prisoner in Pentridge, .with property valiiod at £10,000, is dying. Prisoner, who was the father of six children, was undergoing a Bontonco of two years' imprisonment for forgery. Before his conviction ho made a will, leaving all he possessed to his eldest daughter, making no provision for the others. He refused to accode to the solicitations of his friends, who desired him to alter the will in question. - "■'

A case has been heard at Boochworth, involving a charge of entrapping females in Melboiirne, .servants, and sending them to Beechworth for prostitution. ' In the case in question, where the woman refused to accept the alternative, she was discharged and left without a home or a shilling. The bench, after hearing the case, awarded her a sum for board, lodging, and opach fare back again to Melbourne.

Mr Hammersley has resigned his position as a member of ths . All-England Matoh Committee on the ground that the committee has boen abused by the friends of Wills, who desire to see him in the Victorian team. iThe objections" urged against Wills are tiisj unreliability, both socially and in the cricketing field.- li ■ ■ "The Governor (Sir G. F, Bowen) starts for Gippsland to-morrow. übiin:

A resident of Sandhurst named Painter has blown out his brains with a pistol. The All-England Match Committee, at a meeting held to-day, passed a resolution requesting Mr Hemmersley to withdraw his resignation. .

The crioket match between the Press and Parliament was won by the former in one innings, having scored 148. In two innings the Parliamentary players made 113. Telegrams via ' Aden have been received from the Mauritius. The jNereus has sailed, and the Loch Awe is loading for Melbourne. Whites are selling at 7 dols. 32 cents. In wheat large sales have been made from 5s 6d to 5s Bd. The maize market has improved, arid offers at 4s per bushel have been declined.

A notification has been sent to the Sydney Government that, under the terms of the

Border Convention, Rt the exr>W? \ three months from the 28th otZ °\^ last, the importation of tobacco into V- ** will be prohibited except upon pi ZtT] the duty imposed by the Victorian & °f Die matriculation examination comi . to-day. There were 390 candidate °-ed cluamg 35 young ladies. s< "»• Bishop Perry has consented to retnir, i the dioces« with the new Bishop of Baffin but will not retain the bishopric o f Z\' bourne for nny time owing to failing he £" A f.re broke out at Solomon's,'S^^ shop Swanston street, yesterday S" and damaged about £400 wqrth of S' which was uninsured. ' • - toek> A married woman deliberately jumped i ntn poHce.^ ye9tCrday> andWaS re«byt n O e

A attempt was made on Saturday ai^ to burn down an hotel at Ballarat " ■ to£ 4S*fcT! AU accounts are now oomßlet^ The Euterpe,.from Newcastle, aHft San Francisco on September 24th • and tv Wildwood, from Sydney, October 4th The cricket match between the Press an,} Parliament is now proceeding. TbeChlf Secretary has i 9 s UC d munesous invitations to literary men for the banquet. ■; ? A threatened duel between a well^nown doctor of law and an architect has been amicably settled. It had been arraneed that the encounter should be with pißtola The London Chartered Bank has extended its charter for ten years. , . . = , The challenge of the Sydney oarsmen to the Rowing Club to a contest" for tlie Ama teur Champion Prize is under consideration* A public meeting of the electors of Richmond is convened to hear Dr. L. L; Smith's explanation of the alleged Parliamentary corluption. • '"

Mr Lyster announces that Signor Cagli has engaged operatic artists of such eminence that the co-partenery will be obliged, on their! arrival, to increase the prices-pf admission . far beyond the presnt tariff. The present season of the Italian Opera Company has-terminated, but twelve additional nights tfre announced at reduced rates. ""'

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