SYDNEY.

New Zealand Spectator and Cook's Strait Guardian, Volume II, Issue 84, 16 May 1846, Page 4

SYDNEY.

Sydney Markets, April 26. — Wheat, "ss. 9.d. to 6s. per bush. ; Flour, £15 per ton : HayVBs. 6d. per cwt. ; Bottled Ale and Porter, 10s. 6d. and 12s. per doz.

Hobart Town Markets, April 8. — "Wheat, from 4s. 3d. to 4s. 6d. per bushel ; Barley, English, 4s. 3d. to 4s. 9d. per bush. ; Barley, Cape, 3s. 6d. to 4s. per bush. ; Oats, 3s. 6d. to 4s. per bushel ; Maize, 3s. 6d. per bushel ; Tares, 12s. per bushel ; Grey Peas, 4s. 6d. per bushel ; Hay, pressed, 90s. per ion ; Ditto, loose, 70?. per ton ; Straw, 20s. to 255. per tod ; Best -Bread, 2jd. per 2 lb. loaf ; Inferior Ditto, 2d. per 21b. loaf.

£The person who figures in following Police Report, came from Auckland to this place and afterwards proceeded to Sydney. Ed. N.Z.S.]

Strange Audacity. — On the Ist of October, Sergeaut Griffiths, of the Sydney Police, apprehended a young man named Thomas

Walter Hetchell, alias T. W. Manton, at the North Shore, on a charge of heing a runaway ; when taken into custody, he showed Griffiths a gold watch, which he offered to give him if he would allow him to escape ; this Griffiths refused to do, but feeling some suspicion as to how he became possessed of the watch, made further enquiries, which resulted in his finding the prisoner had lately been in the service of Mr. Robinson, plumber, of George Street. He was yesterday brought up before the bench, ■at Hyde Park, and on reference to the records there, was discovered to have arrived in the colony under sentence of transportation for life In September, 1839, he was assigned tJ the service of Mr. Barker, of Yass, which he left in about four months, and since that time, a period of seven years and three months, he has been at large. During that period, he went down to New Zealand, and travelled about the colony without question or restraint, but had the absurd hardihood to run the risk of again returning to reside in Sydney. Capt. Innes remanded him to Cockatoo, remarking that the law at the time the prisoner absconded only awarded a punishment of two months in the House of Correction, and the Act since passed did not take a retrospective effect. The case, however, was one deserving severer punishment, and he should therefore bring it under the notice of liis Excellency the Governor. The prisoner is a young man about twenty-five years of age, with a somewhat sinister expression of countenance, but rather respectable in demeanour and appearance.

Army. — 96th Foot — Ensign R. S. W. Cumberland to be Lieutenant vice Wilson, retired ; J. V. O'Donnell, to be Ensign vice Cumberland. The 24th and 34th Regiments of Foot were said to be under orders for this colony. The name of the sergeant of the 80th Regiment promoted to an ensigncy, is Kirkland. H.3VT.S. Driver was the first steamer that had visited Swan River 4 when she hove in sight the signalman passed •up a report of" a ship on fire-in the offing."