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Evening Post, Issue 207, 6 October 1865, Page 2

A highway robbery has lately taken place between Oarnaril aud the Waitaki

It appears from the Oamaru Time?, of tbe 28th ult., that a man, named Maurice Burke, on his way to the diggings, fell in with two men named William Williams and James Crawford. Burke had been drinking, and while in that state, as many diggers generally do, he exhibited his wealth in the shape of a bill of exchange for .£lO, two £1 notes, and some silver. His fellow travellers immediately set their hearts on the transference of the money, to their pockets, and in order to effect their purpose the more easily, they plied him well with liquor till at last he dozed over, and he became their easy prey. Williams and Crawford then bent tbeir steps towards tbe Waitaki' on the Canterbury side of which river they were arrested by Sergeant Ryan. The bill of exchange was found in their possession. On Burke regaining his senses, he travelled back to Oamaru, where he informed Sergeant Buller of what had occurred, thus paving the way for the pursuit and arrest of his ' quasi' -friends. They were taken on to Timaru by Serguantßyan, and the robbery hating been committed on the Otago side of the Waitaki, we may expect to have them sent litre for trial. We observe by our Timaru correspondent's letter that they were to be brought before the Resident Magistrate there on Tuesday last. We may mention that Burke who was so lipsy when telling his tale of distress to Sergeant Bullen here, and so cloudy in his recollection, that he could give no other information than that ho had been rubbed. The Sergeant therefore had no I due whatever to aid him in his search. Burke, it appears, howevvr, had so far recovered himself when hn reached Brown's terry, that he was able to identify the prisoners as the men who had been his fellow travellers, and had plied him with brandy ; and the bill of exchange being found in their possession placed the matter beyond question. It appears that the famous letters of Marie Antoinette, lately obtained by MM. Hanolstein and Feuillet de Conches, are nearly all of them skilful forgeries, with the exception of those which were borrowed from the archives of the Austrian Kmpire. This discovery has been undo by a celebrat-d German historian, H err yon Syhel. The Archdeaconry of Nova Scotia has become vacant by the death of the Vener- , able Robert Willis, one of the oldest of the clergy connected with the colonial Church. jg A traveller confessed, to hnve •idden forty miles with the sweet and interesting Mrs Hives, whom notwithstanding his fnstidiousness, ho would have kissed, but for 1 three reasons, which he thus gives : • First, I am such a pood husband I would not be guilty even of the appearance of disloyalty to my wife j secondly, I was afraid our fellow passengers would see me and tell Hines ; third, I do not think Mrs. Hines would let me.'