LATEST FROM SYDNEY.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 26, 22 July 1871, Page 8

LATEST FROM SYDNEY.

We are indebted to Greville and Co., Reuter's agents, per C. 0. Montrose, Esq., their New Zealand manager, for the two latest copies of the " Sydney Morning Herald" (11th and 12th), from which, we extract the following fuller particulars explanatory of telegrams which have already appeared in our columns: — Embezzlement. —Robert Scott, manager of the Grenfell branch of the Bank of New South Wales, was on the sth instant committed for trial on a charge of embezzlement. The chief facts are stated in the evidence of the inspector, Mr T. OSullivan Green, who arrived at Grenfell on the 3rd instant. He says : I went at once to the office of the bank, and said I would count the cash ; I was delayed a considerable time on account of the books not being balanced; I counted the teller's cash, and found £IOO over, which Mr Scott said belonged to the treasury; the treasury is in charge of Mr Scott himself; I took the key from him at once, and about three quarters of an hour afterwards went back and counted the cash in the treasury, which I at once observed to be in a large amount short; Scott came to me and said, " You'll find the treasury short;" I asked him how much, and he said he did not know, but he had lent various sums to people, but had not used any of it himself; on further counting, I found the treasury cash to be exactly £1,600 short; I then said he had better tell me what he had done with it, when he handed me a list with several vouchers with it worthless document*, I should imagine ; perhaps, some may be good ; tney make up about the sum which is deficient; I then told him to show me the way to the police barracks; we met the sergeant on the way, and I gave the prisoner in charge; I don't know that there is anything else short in the bank but about £2 worth of duty stamps ; the money deficit was in the treasury under the prisoner's particular charge ; it was his duty to give a correct account of all moneys received on account of the bank; the amounts, as staled on the vouchers, are not entered in the books of the bank, but are supposed to represent cash. Bail allowed.

The «' South Australian Register" gives the following particulars of the shooting of* a bailiff at Mount Gambier : —Mr Thomas Garraway, an assistant bailiff, has been shot dead while in the execution of his duty in the Hundred of Caroline. Some of the blacks are on the track of, the murderer, and they have crossed the River Glenelg. At the inquest on the body the jury found a verdict of wilful murder against Carl Jung, for whose arrest a warrant has been issued ; he is a shoemaker. Garraway was killed on June 27th ; he had distrained, and was taking away the offender's horse, cart, &c. The body was found on Sunday, July 2, twenty-seven yards from the road, with two gunshot wounds, one on the right temple, and one under the right armpit, about four miles on the road from Blackwood Flat towards Mount Gambier. Jung was last seen by John Dickens, about a mile from Jung's house, in Blackwood Flat, He said he was going to give himself up, and started in the direction of Mount Gambier, about noon, on Thursday. The offender's brother committed suicide about three weeks ago at Port Augusta. Jung has been eighteen years in the colony. He was married at Lake Wallace, where he is well known and had friends. Deceased was formerly a police constable.

Throughout the month better prices have been obtained for the limited quantity of wool offered here, and quotations have so much improved by late news from England that prices now show an advance on last month's, quite equal to the rise reported as having taken place in the London market. The few lots likely to be brought forward at public sales during the next three months will not be of a character likely to test the market. At the sales held to-day, the catalogues were light, and hardly any parcels of any importance were submitted. Almost every lot changed hands at rates quite equal to those obtained last week, aud in sheepskins a slight improvement was perceptible.