AUSTRALIAN NEWS,

Kumara Times, Issue 1157, 14 June 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS,

[Per s.s. Tararua, via Russell, j NEW SOUTH WALES. A further extension of the Great Western Railway, viz., from Orange to Wellington, of fifty-six miles, wsis formally opened on the Ist insb/ The total distance from Sydney Is 24t miles. Two prisoners who tinaOCorintably escaped from gaol at Port Macquarrid have been recaptured. A third is at large. Further disclosures in connection with the deficiencies in the ticket department of the Exhibition* are fore-= shadowed. The Daily Telegraph throws strong doubts on the assumption that Port Briton, for which the Genii steamer? was cleared, was in New Ireland. It offers the opinion that it is intended to occupy by force and colonise all that portion of Western Australia north of Perth. It publishes a full translation of the original prospectus to that effect. Matters at Newcastle contlmle disturbed. Several collieries are engaging laborers to replace the miners on strike, and great irritation is resulting. Mr Layard, formerly member for the district, has been endeavouring to mediate* but the men are preparing foraprotracted struggle. At ten o’clock on the night of June 3rd the manager of the Commeocml Bank at Quirindi was working going to the stable to feed his he was bailed up by three masked robbers with revolvers. Contrary to rale, he had the check key of the safe, which should have been nightly handed to the Sergeant of Police. He managed to drop it while being conveyed to the Bank, and pretended that he bad not got it. Ultimately he was intimidated and the safe robbed* The robbers hav-> i»g drunk a bottle of whisky became

Violent, and the manager’s Wife and 'sister were bailed up. £485 were 'taken, half in gpld, but they overlooked £2OO in notes. They then departed about one o’clock in the morning. The township police and the assistant clerk were absent on duty. The steamer Avoca, from Solomon Islands, arrived at Sydney on June 2nd. She brought a young gentleman who belonged to the party at New Ireland sent by the Marquis de Ruys in the Cbandernagore. He states that he sailed from Flushing on "September l4th. There were 100 men aboard. They had a beautiful passage to Langlin Island, in the South Sea. In accordance with previous arrangement the men, under command of Mr Nottinger, where allowed to settle on Ihe island, were the natives were most friendly. They had provisions for three months when they landed, but seven more were landed unprovided for, and it is feared that they are suffering from want, as they have been unvisited since the Ghandernagore proceeded to New Ireland, where the other immigrants were landed, in two detachments, under Mr M‘Langhlin and M. D. La Crox, at different places. Fever and ague, with other diseases peculiar to this island, broke out. The men worked industriously, but six days after landing only three were capable of exertion, and no medicine or physical comforts were obtainable. The natives informed the immigrants that there wore plenty of whites on the .Duke of York Island, and after several Attempts, a boat while endeavoring to reach that island, was picked up by the, Tipple, a trading steamer.