Intercolonial News.

Hawke's Bay Times, Volume XII, Issue 506, 5 September 1867, Page 1

Intercolonial News.

VICTORIA,

Supposed Case of Poisoning- at Hotham. —The Yas Courier of the 14th Aug., contains the following remarks on this case : —Mary Anne Harriet Hoare Bellamy was the widow of a chemist name. De Barr, who resided for some years in Q-oulburn, and recently deceased, i'or soiiiG time previous to liis death his wife was living apart from him. The man Bellamy was an assistant in De Barr’s shop, ana while De Barr and his wife were living together it was rumored that an undue familiarity existed between the wife and the assistant, De Barr and bis wife repeatedly quarrelled, both were given to intemperate habits, and during "the family jars” he has been in the habit of accusing the woman of infidelity and of robbing him to a large amount, it was generally beli 'Ted that the latter was the case, as De Barr’s business was so profitable that tin &s£2.gn22snt its ni—ds on hi* p.ppfjj. tors could not be accounted for except by ; the supposition that he had been legalh i plundered. After the voluntary separation i between the husband and wife, De Barr ■ mentioned to several persons that be was

the amount of £6OO, but believed tlu-j amount was fully £2OOO. While Mrs De Barr was in Sydney, her husband, who was i'i a very destitute condition at the time, followed her, and endeavored to per-i suade her to return home, but this she persistently refused to do, as she was making arrangements to proceed to Melbourne, it is presumed wlih Bellamy. i)e Barr, as many of our readers are a ware, returned to Goalburn, and attempted to rs establish his business, failed to do so, and death not long after put an end to all his worldly troubles and cah illations. We have beam that tlie name of De Barr was only an assumed one, and it is ineiitiouea ut the Inquest that his real name was Cooke Bellamy’s father was the person who, vviiil e in eusiody on the voyage from Newcastle to Sydney on a charge, managed to throw overboard a box of watches, the material evideuce in the case against him.

The Supposed Poisoning Case at HuTUaM, ViCTuiiiA. —ihe Southern Argus (one ol the Goulbourn papers) contaius the following, with regard to the above case : —“ Ab- ut a week ago a telegram was sent from Melbourne to the Sydney press unnouncii g a mysterious ease of suppose-: poisoning wnicli had occurred at Hothatn. it appears that a chemist named Bellamy, formerly of Sydney, and who was at one time an assistant to the late M. de Barr, of Goulbouru, ina l ied a wicow who had money, and she died three days after mar nuge. j his widow, from all we can learn, was no other than the woman who passed in this town under the name of Madame de Barr. She and Bellamy left Goulburn together about twelve months ago, under questionable circumstances, which occasioned much town talk at (ho time, and in no way redounding to the credit of either M. or Mad-une de Barr, or the youthful chemist, t.cllamy. it is sufficient to say that De Barr, alter tier defection, became a careless and besotted man, and after a lew months he sunk into the grave, bewailing up to the day of his death the loss of tome large amount of gold, which, he con tended, ‘ Polly,' us he used to call her, had always kept concealed in her stays, ana which site had carried away to enrich her transferred love, leaving him miserable. Nothing, for some time, was heard ol Bellamy and his frail fair one, no one caring to allude to a ease so gross and perfidious. It now appears that the twain went to reside at tiotham, in the neigh uourhood of Melbourne, but until lately tlmy were not married. Some monei held by her could not be touened by Bellamy without acquiescing to the trilling condition of marriage. This having been completed, Madame de Barr died three days afterwards, but the post, mortem examination of the body gives no clue lo tlie cause of death, it was suggested that she had been poisoned with uco ite ; tlie in quest, however, w a - adjourned to the i3th .instant, and Bellamy in the meantime arrest'd under grave su-picions of having ■■‘men accessory to her sudden uemise. J 1 me aliened facts in thi- ease result in being well founded, another proof of the judgment winch attaches to a criminal career will be established as a warning for evn doers.”

Snt RogeeTichboene.— TheM Ibournc Herald says Dial a London solicitor has recently vi.-ited Dei.iliquin for the purpose of tracing tlie antecedents of the soi disant. Mr Roger Tichborne, and that tlie result of the invest.gallon shows the “heir” to be simply a very culinary impostor. Du :ing his career in Australia the would-oe .baronet passed under the name of De (Jus rro, and wag know n as a vu gar and somewhat disreputable character. The Pastoral Tunes declares tuat he had not a truce ot genth manly manner, and that he married an ordinary looking servant wench of iu [different character, who had previously cohabited wiui several persons, by one ol whom she hud (tad a clmd.

Forensic Facetiocssess.— The Deniliquin Chronicle gms tlie following instance of ilie “ prevailing passion” of tlie learned Solicitor General(Jn the trial of the case of Wilson v. M'Dean, heard at the recent Deniliquin Circuit Court, the action being for damage sustained try the plaintil}' through tlie neglect of defendant in feeding plaintiff’s bullocks while they were impounded, whereby many of them died, the learned Solicitor-General, in addressing the jury, on behalf of the plaintiff, made some humorous remarks ou the probability ol M'Bean being favoured with a visit from the spirits of some of the departed bullocks, which spirits, the learned gentleman said, would most likely parody soma of Shakespeare’s lines, aud address him thus : Metliought I heard a. voice cry “ Sleep no more. Mtkeau does murder sleep— tlie innocent sic; p! Sleep that seals np tlie bullock-driver's eyes; The cud of each tired bullock's daily toil; Halm even to the squatter’s harrasj'd mind, Melhinks I hear it cry still in mine ear— M'Bean hath murder’d sleep; therefore Lnchlan shall sleep no more—Sl’Beau shad sleep no more.” The Geub —1 bis little animal is still at work eating up the young crops. At one selection near Deniliquin the ground has been twice sown. The first buds were ii.n SMr-r.r.d if UULU£UCI/-CIJ UVCU vJSilj SJIU l!lc 11 is feared, will have to succumb. One ol our small farmers informs us that the grub eats the seed in the earth while it is germinating, but. after the sprouts have attained a eertsin height they are secure from the ravagss of this destroyer. It is feared that ibis singularly propitious sea- ‘ sen (so far) will not terminate favorably ; j for the agricultuirsts here, who, though

scale, will have to contend with one of the most formidable evils of the many to which these avocations in Australia are exposed. We hope, however, to see the hay crops spared. At present, prospects look gloomy enough.