Colonial.

Lyttelton Times, Volume VIII, Issue 496, 5 August 1857, Page 4

Colonial.

NEW SOUTH WALES,

By the Dart, we have intelligence f ro Sydney to the 9th July ; the paper of tW date, the day of the Dart's sailing, bavin,, been furnished to us by the kindness ff Captain Jenkins.

Parliament has been further proro?i, e d and was summoned finally for the 11th August.

From the tables published in the p aperß we find that the revenue of New South Wales for the quarter ended June 30t[, 1857, was £314, 920 as against £289, 837 for the corresponding quarter of' l ast year.

We extract the following paragraphs-^

Shocking and Mysterious Murde e —Some six weeks ago, a Chinaman, in the employ of Mr. Warland, of Harben Vale was reported to the police as missing, sup! posed to be murdered; but after an ineffectu. al search of several days, the matter was allowed to drop, and was almost forgotten until last Friday, when, as Mr. Wylde was looking for horses on Warland's Creek he discovered in a branch creek the body of a man covered with wounds and which proved to be that of the missing Chinaman. An inquest was held on the body, by Dr. Little, the Coroner, yesterday. Two men were taken into custody on suspicion, one of them, a shepherd in Mr. Wariand's employ and a hut-mate of deceased, named John Smith, and the other, a man employed on the home station of Mr. Warland's named George Furs. After hearing the evidence, the jury, having consuited for a few minutes, returned a verdict to the following effect, with which the Coroner expressed his concurrence :—" We find that the deceased Chinaman Kaw Haw came to his death in consequence of wounds wilfully inflicted; upon him by some person or persons unknown." The prisoner Smith was then discharged.

Murrurundi, June 24,

Paying off ot? H.M.S. Heea^d.—As noticed in our last, H.M.S. Herald was paid off yesterday; and in the evening about ninet3 r of the ship's company cele. brated the occasion by a supper, at the White Swan, Lower George street. A substantial repast was provided by the host, Mr. Pearson. About half-past seven, the table being laid and the company seated, the captain of the forecastle read a set of rules which-bad been drawn up for the preservation of good order on the occasion, and the jolly tars then fell to with great vigour. No time was wasted; and to avoid the necessity for long speeches after supper, the toasts were given and drunk indiscriminately during the progress of the repast. We recommend the example to the attention of post-prandial orators generally. The affair by this means was quickly got through with, and the company dispersed about nine o'clock, to divert themselves according to their separate tastes. A number subsequently re-assembled, and enjoyed themselves very jovially together for some time. Good feeling and order characterised the festivities, only one or two indications of a quarrelsome disposition being manifested, and these were quickly repressed by the good sense and strong arm of the majority. We understand that, with the exception of about thirty long-service men, who have been with the ship from the time she left England, and are bound to return with her, the crew are at liberty either to rejoin the ship, or to leave her altogether. As considerable dissatisfaction is expressed by the men at the stoppage of the colonial pay, it is expected that many of those who are free to leave the vessel will not rejoin her. The men are under the impression, with what truth we cannot say, that there is an amount of colonial pay yet due to them, which they say accrued previous to the stoppage of the allowance by vote of the House. Considering that the colonial allowance was continued to the military, but taken from the seamen, we think the l&tter have some ground of complaint. To say the least, it was inconsistent on the part of the Legislature to cut off the allowance fro") one arm of the service alone. —* Empire> July 1. The Yass Mines.—ln a recent num^ el" we published a letter from our Yass correspondent, announcing some rich discoveries of the " inferior metals," in the immediate neighbourhood. We are now enabled to give some additional particulars. The locality of the discovery is the Good Hope Estate. ten or twelve miles southwest from "%ASS'

h ; Murrumbidgee. Captain McCullum, on wietor, has obtained some very fine the Prol \ h s engaged four men for the **£%****• Mr- E"iotl-of MrpUrs Clarke's establishment at present on a ■t to Goulburn, brought down a small V 1 f ore About an ounce and a half of %Is yesterday smelted ; the most valuthl, rtion of the product was found to be *i ? and there was a considerable quantity gilver, c traces of gold were discovof?PPLe'ad also formed part af the mass, c p'imens of the ore, and the obtained P iißof the analysis may be inspected for S y only, at Mr. H. S Clarke's estabjthment, Auburn street.- Goulburn ChroWcM^ 4-