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Otago Daily Times, Issue 215, 28 August 1862, Page 6

Dr. TiiußMi Again— This notorious swindler made an ingenious attempt the other night U> escape from Albury i>;n"l. He ttail managed to tecure a tnb!eki.iie, which l>e had noi^hed like a isaw, and concealed in tiie sole «f one of his IkmUs. JJiiu^ ronnae>.l in one ■■>* the ut'P'T cells, he had awn through several boards of the woolen ceili.g, niliug up I'ie crevices in the day time with a wwjKisition ot scap and bread. It was doubtless Inn intention to remove shingles from the to-if, and let himself down to terra jhnui by a it.pe made from his blankets. Tine gnitinur of the saw, houever, ulti acted the attention of the officers of the gaul, and the attempt was discovered just m time to prevent the doctor's escai*. ns another night's industry would have freed him. The visiting justice ordered him to lo kept for seven days on bread and water, and to be fhitud about from cell to cell during bin incarceration.— Burda- J'ost, Aug. 13,

TIIK I'KiIIT BETWEEN WIIITK AM) StLUVAX FOR £Hol).—Ytstenlay evening, Pitt-street, opjwsiie I'attersallV was throned quite across the street l»v a <len«e multitude of anxious inquirers as to the result of the fi^ht which, it was known by those in the secret, was to come oif between White and Sullivan, fur £500 a side. Various rumors were afloat during the afternoon on the subject, from which it appeared that the event, which had .set the " fancy" on the gui vire, had taken place some twenty miles on the Sydney side of Bathurst. and diat «ulliviin Imd the worst of it. Siiortly Ijefore aneu o'clock, the fol'owinf; telegram was received, which Rf t the matter at rest : —'• Bnthur&t, An-us^t .r». twenty minutes past cix p.m. lo J. o'lJrien. While beat Sullivan in about an hour. Thirty rounds. Sullivan very much knocked about."— Xiidney Morning Herald', Aug. 6