SYDNEY.
Our dates from Sydney are to the 28th ultimo. The inquest on the body of the murdered man found at the Paterson was commenced at West Maitland. James Culvert Thomas and his son Nicholas have been arrested. The inquiry stands adjourned. A portion of the Waratah pit at New?
castle is burning. The fire was caused by a bush fire on Sunday. All the air-holes are stopped, and it is expected that the fire will be put out. Thirty men have been thrown out of employment.
Mr Henry Roman is announced as a candidate for the seat vacated by Mr Rodd, for the Northern Goldfields.
John Cahill, a settler on the Macquarie, eighteen miles from Bathurst, was found under a tree pinned to the earth. He died just after being removed.
A number of public meetings have been held in various parts of the Colony, on the education question.
Millions of locusts, travelling towards Tamwortb, are destroying the vegetation of Breeza Plains.
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Clutha Leader, Volume I, Issue 22, 10 December 1874, Page 6
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