ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4442, 15 June 1875, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

(from our own correspondent.) Auckland, Monday. Sydney, June's. The agitation continues in favor of the annexation of New Guinea. The barque Chevert, on a scientific exploring expedition to New Guinea, has arrived at Townsville, all well. A pioneer expedition from Sydney is also talked of. Government telegraphed Home to disconcontinue the services of Shields, inspector of railway iron, in consequence of the unsatistory report of the commission of inquiry as to the rails sent out. Sir Alexander Gordon, Governor of Fiji, leaves here in a day or two for Levuka, in the Pearl, followed by the Barracouta, with his Excellency's staff and family.' ■ The tender of Fishburn Morton, at £7OOO a mile, has been accepted for the construction of ten miles of the Beechworth railway. A down train collided with a bullock, and the engine and several carriages were thrown off the line. The train was righted after three hours' detention. The locomotive was slightly damaged, but no persons were injured. An attempt was made to rob the Bank of New South Wales at St. George on the night of the 22nd vdt. An entrance into the bank was effected by means of skeleton keys. The burglars were captured on the premises, and have since been committed for trial at the Toowoomba assizes. (PER TRESS AGENCY.) Advices from India state that a revolt occurred in Baroda, and that the infant son of '"'the Guicowar's daughter was placed on the throne by the excited populace. The revolt was ultimately suppressed. Cholera is raging in India, people having been attacked and died in railway trains. The Gothenburg relief fund has been divided. The captain's widow and family get £4OO ; the widow and family of the chief officer, £4SO; Mrs. Goulder, widow of a passenger having eight children, £535. Others proportionately. A young man has been arrested on suspicion of having participated in the recent garroting case at Sydney by which a man was lolled. Another case of garrote robbery is reported. John Charles Kay, recently from Melbourne, has been arrested in Sydney on a Melbourne warrant, charged with misappropriating £IOOO trust money. Five thousand Chinese are now on the right and left branches of the Palmer, and some of

them are getting plenty of gold. The latest news from the Palmer is very good. All the white men are doing fairly; the Chinese making a good thing of abandoned ground. In some cases the Chinese are making from half-an-ounce to an ounce per day in ground left by whites as not payable. Many of them who came in with heavy gold intend leaving for China by the next mail steamer. Provisions have risen on the field. Packing and teaming is vigorously carried on. Horses are still low in price, but the market is steadily rising. A notice has been posted at Sandy stating that any Chinamen crossing will lie - hanged. The Sybil, schooner, arrived at Mary- *"' borough from the South Sea Islands, with 113 laborers on board. She reports a famine at the islands, through a hurricane, earthquakes, and tidal waves.