NEW SOUTH WALES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 3, 7 March 1866, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

THE BERTEAND AND KINDER TEAGEDT. Sydney, Friday Evening, Feb. 23. The jury in Bertrand's case, after consulting for two hours and a half, came into Court, which was densely .crowded, and gave a verdict of "Guilty." Bertrand, on being called upon in the usual way to say if he had any cause to show why the sentence of death should not be passed upon him, proceeded to address the Court, and in a clever speech of half an hour's duration, asserted his innocence of the murder of Kinder. Sir Alfred Stephen, Chief Justice, in passing sentence of death upon the prisoner, expressed his full belief in his guilt;' He said that' lie had considered it was somewhat, doubtful after the former trial, but that the evidence on the second trial was conclusive against the accused, and he was now convinced of the justice of the verdict. The prisoner appeared cool and collected, though not. manifesting any of his former levity. He said he - was not afraid to die, and smiled to those about him after the sentence had been passod. The Chief Justice expressed an opinion that Jackson, who is still undergoing sentence of imprisonment for sending the letter to Bertrand threatening exposure, ought to be liberated, and that he did not deserve so severe a punishment. Saturday -Morning, Feb: 24; Mrs. Kinder has this morning been " liberated from custody, and discharged by proclamation ; the Crown law officers considering that the evidence' was insufficient to establish her complicity in the murder. Bertrand has requested permission for his wife to visit him, but the authorities entertain the apprehension that poison may be conveyed to him if the permission is granted; and their acquiescence is therefore, doubtful. : The Chief Justice discharge^ Mrs. Kinder from custody, oh the ground" that he 'did not think the Crown could get a conviction, but he strongly advised her to leave the colony.— Mdbrburne Argus, Feb. 6. ■ BLOCKADE OF THE CHILIAN POETS. j Artea, Nov. 6.— -The Patagonia, Swansea to Caldera, ■vy-as allowed to anchor in the latter port' arid discharge into a Spanish prize about ten tons of gunpowder. She. was ordered away after remaining four days,. and arrived here October 30.- She reports that on the 1 sth August, in lat. 15 S., ion. 30 W, symptoms of a fire appeared, when she threw 'overboard 35 tons of coal. She had beea surveyed, and the coal bolow

-being found l&t," loa tons -Tiayebeeffdrderejiiflo-Be discharged -immediately."- The 'BodyHidan/ 5 "British : ship, and the Ricardo, of Hamburg; both from Europe to Chilij are still lying "with "their "cargoes oniboaird ■waiting further orders. The Pacific Steam JJaviglU ■ tion Company's steamers run' only to. Co^bija^ the,' blockading. squadron having interdicted their. -calling 1 at any port in Chili, or proceeding to Valparaiso- as. usual, the mails from Europe. being left at Corbija.-^ S. M. Herald,, February 21. -■■ , :.' ; . : .'".;■, ■><„■". "Writing on the.subject of a gold currency; ■ for India, the Times of India says;:— "'WeC are not' advocating a double standard-, -or any. interference with the weight arid' fineness of" the present rupee. All that is 1 needed is to make gold of' the- adopted twenty -two carat standard a legal tender at the cutch erf ies. arid in _the_baazars throughout India. -The prac--tical equivalent. of this measure, wouM-be/-to.-~ set the mints in:thiscouutry : to work-in coin* icg Indian ■ sovereigns and : -half-sbv6fei£ri&^ ' which would' be the exact counterparts l 'or ten arid ifive rupees respectively. 7 As, itVis,\ we are fetching, at excessive cost,- needless.; . quantities: of silverfrom Mexico, whilst- A'u'Si- , tralia, close at hand, has to send all her • gold " f away from her best market. This process seems simply a. very stupid one." Gold Discovert^— A specimen of-Virgiti gold has deen - discovered ~in - atm streanr"inr~ Cornwall, it measured nearly three Inches -ioTp length, 2\ inches -in - diameter, and weighsrather more than two o\ince&.--;Money,Market, Review. . . .. ■ , ,-... -■--. . •• ,■-.. - ; ■■..;..■,, , "- V-.-: A Contest with ■an Alligator:— A ;: young man, the manager of an estate, was crossing a river on horseback, and followed by a bull-dog, when the howling: of-;. the ani* mal caused him to turn his. head, __.What jwas. . his surprise to see an alligator, - at least nine feet long, carrying off the dog by the neck. To jump off his horse, and into the water, to attack the monster with his hunting-knife^ • was the work of a moment. His boldness.-. was successful, fr>r he killed the alligator, ,and saved his &og.^ West Indian Baper. A rather awkward contretemps, whiehrhap> pened at a late meeting at : Sandhurst Mining- - Board electors, is described by the'lriUependent: — "-The 'chairman, of -. the meeting : was Mr. Campbell, the County Court bailiff.. One. of the . candidates having occasion to- * -leave the room; found a County Court sumrabhs near the door, and, thinking the .chairman, had lost it, politely, handed ; it ; to .'him. ' Scarcely had he done so, when the chairman started up, and said" he™ 'had never been so grossly insulted in his " -life. • Flourishing the document in liis hands,- he : said h'e-\had been c handed a summons to -serve-on- the candidatethen addressing- the. meeting. --.The candi-- " date, taking up the summons as if served on" him, and looking at* the account^ and riot "the* summons, said his opponents. had been driven to sad straits if they could adopt such means for a paltry 14s. The offending finder, of -the unfortunate ,' valentine' seemed- ,aS r much astonished as any of them,. . till, > oil" more ; calmly looking at what had caused <so mucb-r offence; it was- discovered 'that while the suh>^ f -. morishad been handed to MV. ! Charted 'CifaW^ ' ford, of the Snip Inn, Back. Creek, • iC was ■ the property of a man of the same surname, but of -a different- Christian ;narae, living in- a different district, who, though' do ubtless' present at the meeting, was' too modest to lay' claim to his little billet doux" , -„...': An Ancient" SHip.-^-Ari oak eh vessel 80 " feet in length, nearly 12; ifeetfbeanv 1 about =-- four aud;a;half feet deep in the middle,^rising 1 ' to about ten' -feet : at bow and^stern, ;: and' : evi- x: ' deiitly designed for Swift sailing^ lias recently ; been discovered imbedded, five i feet. deep in a , marsh ; at Flensbdrg, ; Bchleavrig. 'Runic in-'---scriptions on the timber point 'to' a date in^ the second- century, after Christy and,' yet th^e 1 .; wood is," comparatively speaking, so'li'ttle decayed; that the whole., ship has \ moved and repaired^ with a view.to -its ;careful preservation. ' -In' the the/sh l^.'' , apparently devoted to-;co<>kmjg|-,or'.;at;ylexfel"_'; dining, were, found the : inscriptions-; referred,, to, as also bones of the aniinal&usedifor''food ] jf ! axes, lances, and : "other i; weapon's. I*'1 * ' {As°nb^ iuman bones were foun^'it is presumed. tha^| ■ the vessel -ha 4 putui^'^for^s^etjr^frMj^Hß enemy . .and, ,been.-suuk-. ou . abandonejjMJßßH rudder; quite bf modern form, in its normal position. m^HH^^H