AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXI, Issue 1792, 18 November 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[reuter's telegrams/] SYDNEY, November 17. BushrangingSeven bushrangers yesterday stuck up the Natabadgero Hotel and station, taking arms, ammunition, money, and horses. Pour policemen from Wagga were despatched in pursuit and encountered the bushrangers. The police lost their horses and were compelled to retreat. Nobody was wounded. The Clarendon mail was also stuck up. A strong body of police are in pursuit. Latest. A telegram from Gundagai to-night states that a desperate encounter took place between the police and bushrangers. Two of the latter were shot dead and one wounded. Two surrendered and one escaped. One of the constables was seriously wounded in the affray. SYDNEY, November 18. The Natabadgery bushrangers bailed up over thirty persons by moonlight. Nesbitt was among the gang. He was captured uninjured. Three civilians going to assist the police fell into an ambuscade, and were given five minutes to prepare for death, but the police arriving a desperate fight ensued. Arrived —Botomahana. Pedestrianism. In the forty-eight hours' walking contest Edwards was winner. He walked 153 miles. The Education Act. At a crowded meeting of Boman Catholics, resolutions were adopted condemning the Education Bill. BBISBANE, November 18. The Blacks and the Chinamen. Two hundred blacks attacked seven Chinamen who were fishing north of Cooktown. They speared one of them.