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Hawke's Bay Times, Volume 13, Issue 663, 11 March 1869, Page 4

The Sticking-up of the Gtmpie Coach. —The notorious William Bond has been fully identiked and committed to take his trial for stopping the mail and firing three shots at a passenger, and wounding another in the wrist by a pistol ball. The police, in following up the tracks of the two bushrangers who attacked the coach, came upon their two horses, saddled and bridled, and grazing on the banks of the Mary Kiver, about two and a-half miles beyond the Gympie. A little further on they discovered the prisoner andc aptured him. This is the short stout man who carried the revolver. The taller man, who held the double-barrelled gun, has never been discovered, and from all the information received about him, it is believed that he perished in the bu-h from tl e result of Mr King's shot. When Mr King fired his first shot at this man, the robber had turned k his side towards him and was raising his gun to shoot, when Mr King quickly fired, and saw that his bullet had told, for the gun sank in the man's hand and the fellow staggered. Mr King immediately discharged two other shots at him, and it is believed with effect, for Mr King afterwards saw thi* man bend forward as if in pain, and hand his gun to prisoner, and then both rode slowly off together. The police, in continuing, the search, discovered a double-barrelled gun lying on the ground, loaded with grape-shot, and a horseman's pistol similarly charged, both supposed to be the arms of the tall bushranger, but his body has not yet been discovered. Bond's wounds are progressing favorably, and he seems in a fair way of recovery. It is to be hoped that the fate of these two men will be a salutary example to all who feel disposed to pursue the desperate and wicked career. Enjoying his Annuity.—A very good story is told of a well-known character who died in Hexham last week. He was a thirsty soul at one period of his life, and a sharp man of business thought he was making a good thinsj of it when he bargained to take some property belonging to him in consideration ot an allowance ol twelve shillings a week and two suits oi clothes in the vear as long as he lived. A* soon as the annuity, deed was signed, sealed, and delivered, the person in question became a teetotaller, and remained so ever after, reaching a ripe old age, en-. joying hia annuity to the last, and leaving the bargain-monger with the balance a precious way on" the wrong side of the ledger, so far as this speculation was concerned.—Newcastle Chronicle. What species of love is that which is never reciprocated?—A neuralgic affection.