THE SUBMARINE CABLE

Evening Star, Issue 4151, 16 June 1876, Page 3

THE SUBMARINE CABLE

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS

Sydney, June 15. Victoria has promised her co-opera-tion in reference to a second cable. Rich quartz has been discovered in Gnlgong district. A Brisbane telegram states that on Sunday last a party of timber-getters found a man in a deplorable condition at Tyide Bay, He was one of the . recent nye escapes from New Caledonia/ OnO drowned during the passage. The black trackers are looking after the other threO who left the res* injured. - The Postmaster has said, in reference to the proposal of America to have an increased rate for the conveyance of the : Australian mails aerbafe the Conti-. that; from information received unofficially, he hoped Do increase would -bosdemanded..- • , , It has been discovered that several of the eighteen-ton guns, which were only * impacted,, have , been mali-: ciouslyinjured, Oats,2s &l. Melbourne, June 15. . u .-Sincock, late manager, of the Land Mortgage Bank, has been charged wilht ho drew £7,000 out, of the Bank of New Zealand for his own purposes,' giving a bill which was dishonored. getting embarrassed, forged a bill of'? exchange. The case was dismissed on a technical objection ; but a fresh information is to be laid, Stevenson’s ense has been with costa

The sheep epidemic is causing anxiety. : 1 Heavy galea have occurred at.Hoburt Town, and Launceston. , , - ' ' , ■ June 16.

Johnßydn, Convicted of an outrage on Mrs Rumbolt, at South Yarra, was to ten years?'penal servitude, the first three months in Solitary confinemeut, and to a hundred and fifty lashes. . >

A warrant has been applied for against .Trowel 1 for perjury in the Stevenson’s case.