LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS

Grey River Argus, Volume III, Issue 173, 21 February 1867, Page 3

LATEST INTERCOLONIAL NEWS

■ take the following items of news from pur Melbourne files to hand per Gothenburg : — ; The robbery of the LBOO,OOO worth of bills; &g;, from the Oriental Bank turns out to have been committed by one of tho Bank officials named Dickson,. who saj's he took- the documents out of spite. Information had previously been volunteered to the police as to the whereabouts of the missing papers,^ which were safely recovered: Dickson has been allowed to escape prosecution. Indeed , the Age says:—The recent abstraction o? bills from the Oriental Bank still forms the subject of numerous "rumors in town. The last is to the effect, that an official coiinected with the bank, some time j>revipus to the bills being., found, made arrangeirientswhiehr were duty drawn up in an agreement, by which, in the event of his: giving, a clue to where the bills were hid, he should be insured against any proceedings, and Shave the LiOOQ reward paid over to hitt*m£sin a certain time. The reward not'KvraiSg|3een psiid, it is stsited that -he-; has;?coin^^gd proceedings for tlie re-,' coyery :^>f|^.s|^is may seem to be aTery : imprpbiblejsttl^^nt improbable as it- is, it has -beenf^^ej^ circulated, producing an effect hot-jiß^%y means beneficial to the reputeToMi^^janking institutions. AjhL, after all^p§i it seem a whit more incredible tha^||j|e marvellous tilings in connection >witfrfiilus business of which we have positive "information. The con'espohdent of; -anf up-country joiirnal says that, in addition to the larcency of the bills, falsifications have been discovered in Dickson's accounts ; but for this we, of course, cannot vouch ; who can vouch for anything in connection with the transaciiou?.- :- ; 7;7; ; .v;; v x^ '■ ■ Hea^jr; Jloods have occurred at the Weddin diggings. Thunderbolt, the bushranger, robbed the northern mail, on the 4th inst., in night of the Manilla post-office. The police have, captured several bushrangers in the Cowra district. -■]■■/■ . Two fires^ occurred in Sydney on the 3rd February.; Five houses in George street \vere destroyod. • « . ■ . : The heat has-been terrific in some parts of tlie,jcqlony^ ? :(At Moulamein the thermometer reaclied] 20 degs. in the shade.r The police ; encountered Thunderbolt : yesterday ~ and chased him for six miles. They recovered a -horse, and L4OO stolen from the Northern mail. Thunderbolt eßcap'e4oj:; : Vw^;fi:^f . ..' ." / ■.;:"■■ Th^ shipsv Jason^aramatta, and Aus--tralian; sailed witliin-a few hours of each ofclier f(>r London; / They intend to have araceh(rtme.;^^Hfciere is a considerable sum of money bot^n the result, the odds offered being, two to one. in favor of the AustmHari; There was a crowd of people witnessed her departure, and they, gave her some hearty cheers. '■'■'■ TJieSbiuth Australian Gavernment de;cidod to .issue a commission to. the Chief r instrnctintj him to preside at the ensuing Qnininal Sessions, a copy of the commission's to be forwarded to Judge Boothbyjijvho insists upon taking precedencei a||jtlife ; said sittings. It is -expected thatgr#^pomplicaii()iis will result, . whicli will 1 jbe)!: totally unbecoming the dignity of tlie *G6urt. : Tlie news^by the English mail is considered fayoMble to the continuance of wheat slupjiieiits from Adelaide. Great vexatiw^felt at the scarcity of shipping in the ;p^>rt;s The., stores are stocked -"toj excess. i,|;Tlvß ; market remaius witliout alteration ais -t^ prices. . :