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Kumara Times, Issue 3102, 12 October 1886, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. * ♦-* NEW SOUTH WALES ASSEMBLY. NOTICE OF VOTE OF CENSURE. MUNICIPAL JUBILEE GATHERING AT SYDNEY. (Received October 12, 1.15 a.m.) Sydney, October 11. In the Legislative Asserob'y to. night, Sir Henry Parkes gave notice that to-ruorroTT, he would move a vote of censure on the Government on the ground that the Supplementary Financial Statement was unsatisfactory. The House then adjourned. (Received October 12, 12.5 p.m.) October 12. The formal reception of guests for the Municipal Jubilee gathering takes place this afternoon. Large numbers of mayors and aldermen from the other colonies are now heie. ■—••♦ THE GREAT BARRIER ISLAND MURDER. CAFFREY BROUGHT TO SYDNEY. ARREST OF CAFFREY'S KNOWN ACCOMPLICE. CONFESSION OF PENN. CLEVER CAPTURE OF CAFFREY. (Received October 11, 10.25 p.m.) Sydjstjsy, October 11. Caffrey arrived from Fernmount today, heavily ironed. A large crowd of spectators assembled to meet the steamer. The prisoner was brought before the Magistrate on a charge°of murdering a settler named Taylor at Great Barrier Island, and remanded for a week. A man and woman, supposed to be Penn, Caffrey's accomplice, and Lizzie Graham, the woman who was taken from the Barrier Island, have been arrested at Town, on the Macleay River, 280 miles north-east of Sydney. The prisoners were brought up at the local Police Court, and "remanded until to-morrow. (Received October 12, 12.5 p.m.) October 12. The man arrested at Kemsey, h,i.s admitted he is Penn, and confessed to complicity in the Great Barrier Island murder. [united press association.] Wellington, October 11. Colonel Wbitmore, C>mr.)is>ioner of t-!u) Oonslabnlary, todav received ; , oahle fnirii By,!i, ( y ;||it ! Penn, Uaff.ey'.s accomplice in t|„. £,.,.,.,, Hanier murder, and the woman Lizz'e Jraliain, who was known to have sailed with the murderers in tho cutter Sovereign nf the Seas, have been arrested in New South Wales. Auckland, October 11. Detective Tw..hey and Constable M'Kay leave for Sydney to bring back O'ffivv, Penn and Lizzie Graham. v !»■(■ inr-jps* "r Taylor MHt MKay is ihoi-....ii;i ii y acqir;i;itt-.1. as i a member of the water police, with j Caff.ey. The girl is to be biought to)

Aucland charged as being an accessory after the act. •Sydney papers per Mariposa state that Caffrey was cleverly captured by Constable May while crossing in a punt from Deep Creek, IMlingen River, where he had been employed painting a bridge. May was disguised as a swagsman and said he wanted to have a cbat with Caffrey. 'He gives May credit for the way he took him completely off his guard. Had he known he was a constable he would have shot him. Caffrey was determined not to be taken alive. This is the second murderer May has arrested. He was formerly in the New Zealand force at Invercargill and then Dunediu. In connection with the running away by Caffrey with the cntter Sovereign of the Seas, it is worthy of note that the vessel was bui'tin the same year (1886) as the schooner Jubilee, which was also run away with a few years back. Both vessels were owned by Messrs. Henderson and Spraggon, and by the stealing of these vessels the firm named estimate that they have lost fully ,£ISOO. The Jubilee was valued at £IOOO, and the Sovereign of the Seas at £SOO.