AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 6, 25 June 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[bkVTBR's TKLKOBiMB.J Keerired Juae 25, 0.45 a.m. Mklboitbn*. June 24. The examiaatioa «f the prisoners in custody for ih' Simps*!)'* Head bant robbery wad continued to-dnj. The witness Yate.i, wb» ha* turned Queea'a e? i dence, uare his testimony. He stateo that it was he who drore the cart iv which were contained the proceed* of tlie robbery, and he furnished the cour w>'th full detail* «f the umnncr ta whie; the crime was coneeired and carried out. At the clou? of hi* ezatninatisn tli» proceedinji were adjourned until Frida? next. Adblaide, Juae 24. Intelligence to hnnd reports' that thr barque Mars, 487 tons, in ballast from Melbourne, June 4th, wa« totally wrecke-l off the South Australian coast on the lltli Jum>. Cuptain Prmtjle, with pilot, am! two of the cr«w were drow ne&. Svd.vkv, June 23. The landiaf and formal reception of the Hew South Wales contingent, o« the return fr»m the S«uian took plncr thin uioiniiiK. The GorerMaent uf New South Wale* attacked great importanrr to the occuaion, a public liolilsy haunt been ctisetted throut(l>out the, «»U«jr while lh« whole available fort** of the colony, to the autnber of •▼er 5 JOO men, were maMed in the metropolis for the purpose of taking i art ia the ceremony