Additional Australian News.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1668, 23 June 1875, Page 2

Additional Australian News.

SERIOUS IMPUTATION m vI^ST A

JDDGE,

EXPENSES OF MR. VOGEL'S CONEGOTIATOR,

By the Glimpse from Newcastle to-day, we have received, through the courtesy of Captain Stayers, Sydney and Newcastle papers to the 12th inst., from which we make the following extracts :— SYDNEY. The amount of the total expenditure incurred consequent upon the visit of the Hon. Saul Samuels, late Postmaster-General to New Zealand, England, and America, in connection -with the Pacific Mail Service, was £1646 16s. 9d.

A case came before the Police Court today, in which it was shown that the Paramatta Volunteers were about to use their bayonets on a'bus-team which waa purposely driven upon them in one of the streets. James Lees, drill instructor, was committed for trial for indecent assault on one Elizabeth Wandby, landlady of the Britannia Hotel. . A decree, absolute, waa granted in the divorce case, Wilson v. Wilson. Adultery, cruelty, and desertion were shown. Wilson and paramour resided at Newcastle, and left there for California. Application was made in the same Court for a new trial in the case of Watson v. Watson, the late slander case, on the ground that the damage awarded by the jury, £2,500, was excessive, and the verdict was against evidence. The judges unanimously refused the application —the occasion was not a privileged*one. Mr John Alexander Macfarlane, accountant in the Sydney Branch of the Koyal Mint, second son of the Hon. Dr. Macfarlane, M.L.C., met his death in a most sudden and painful manner. He was thrown from his horse in the streets of Sydney, and fractured his skull.