SYDNEY.

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

SYDNEY.

-.: December 3. —Mr W. H. Cooper has been returned to ' the Assembly for East Macquarie'by almaiority of 1 TjO. ** ' The Southern Railway works at Manton'a,, Creek are progressing satisfactgrily. The Alice Cameron leaves for Auckland, on Thursday. ", i{ . The Hero is advertised to leave tomorrow. ': ■ The New ' South Wales Assembly has '■:■ passed a bill legalising<marriage with deceased wife's sister. Mr Joseph Rayner, after several years' - absence from the Sydney stage, made his reappearance before his old frienda at the'^ Victoria Theatre. He was ably supported! by Mr Joyce, who played the Baillici with ":J some new readings conceived in admirable ' taste. Miss Dolly Green sustained the ohai-£ '■■- acter of the wife of the bold.outlaw; '*' "ig^6; '^ There wa3 a torriflc hailstorm at Little, River. In the neighbourhood of Sergeant'% : Point it continued with unabated fury for™ twenty minutes, covering-tKe ground to "up- ' y\ k wards of a foot in ''depth; with round pieces % of ice as big as marbles. Incalculable injury has,been done.to the fruit crop within,,,^' ; the circuit of the storm, and in somerjblacef'" ' the early potatoes ares completely riDboned and rendered worthless.

TvyoL boys, were (Quarrelling in Maitland when one stabbed the other with'l a saddler's awl. InHaniationxiJf the bowels resulted from* j j the wound, and the injured boy's life wasfor j . a time dispairod of, but he is now recovering. •! A man has been discovered tied to a tree about 100 yards oil* the road which leads from Forbes to Currajonng. He .was quite dead, ? his throat boing cut, ~tb.e gash having severed the windpipe. He was fastened to the troe by two leather straps, one being round hia legs and^i, the pother, round his throat. There were no indications of a struggle having taHen place, and from the r fact that the man had no money .in his possession the last time he was aeon alive, and moreover was very poorly clad, with ; only two blankets, one old boot, and a pair of old trousei's in his swag, it is generally inferred that no murder was perpetrated, but that deceased had committed suicide.

The members of the Prince Alfred > Yacht Club, on the 22nd of November, had a race for a silver cup, presontedjbyj-Mr J. G. Hanks, and a pair of binocular marine glassea, presented by Mr W. E. Langley. The first prize fell to Australian, and .the second was carried off by Send. • ..: I