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Lake Wakatip Mail, Volume II, Issue 69, 26 December 1863, Page 6

Gardiner.—Nothing has been heard for a length of time of Gardiner, the bushranger. The Araluen Star accounts for the fact as follows ; " It may not be generally known that this notorious bushranger has long since gone to his long home. At the time he was seen riding the white horse, and fired at by the police in the neighborhood of Mrs Brown's, he was mortally wounded, and although he managed to reach the camp of his confederates, he expired on the following evening, and was buried next day by his party at the foot of a small knoll on the banks of the Abercrombie River." Extraordinary Vegetation.—Mr. Norris, clerk in the office of the Crown Solicitor, has furnished us with an account of the following anomalous circumstance, which we recommend to the consideration of the Philosophic Society at its next meeting:—Situated near to the Breakfast Creek Brewery is a spring of water, in the middle of which is a tree growing. This tree, for the last six weeks, has been dropping water from its boughs and branches in a quantity equal to the force of a heavy rain shower. Whether or not, the tree absorbs the water into its general system of sap circulation, and then in the manner detailed, discharges the surplus, is a matter for oiy savans to determine. The circumstance at least, is singular, and we believe, without precedent.—North Australian (Queensland). Murder near Wagga Wagga.—A shocking murder was perpetrated on Messrs Mort's station. Mr Rogers, the superintendent, had allowed a young man named Bonfield, who was engaged as woolpresser, to shear for his own benefit when not engaged at the press. This annoyed a shearer named Harris, who objected to the arrangement yesterday morning, when Bonfield was about to begin. " Bonfield told him to shut up. Harris rushed at him, and drove his closed shear blades into his heart. The fellow merely cried "out I am murdered," and fell, expiring instantly. The wretch Harris was immediately secured by the other shearers, and is now in custody here. A post mortem examination showed that the shears had entered the chest closed, but on reaching the heart had opened, inflicting two distinct wounds, either of MtfjifiJi must have been instantly mortal.