AUSTRALIAN.
[REUTER —COPYRIGHT.] (Received Mav 14, 12.10 p.m.) SYDNEY, May 14. The New South Wales Government are treating with the the Orient Steamship Company for the establishment of a fortnightly mail service to the United nm alternately with the P. and 0. Company’s service between New South Wales and England. (Received May 15, 1 p.m.) May 15. Arrived on Monday : Hanroto, from Wellington. It has transpired that the New Zealand Government was invited to acquiesce in joining the Postal Union, but has declined. MELBOURNE, May 15. A man named George Sweeney has been arrested at Sydney charged with the robbery of £6OO from the Colonial Bank at Brunswick, near this city, last month. The accused was bound for Snn Francisco when arrested. (Received May 15, 10 p.m.) • It has been ascertained that the prisoner Sweeney, who was arrested at Sydney on a charge of having robbed the Colonial Bank at Brunswick last month, is known to the police under the aliases of Longmore and Palmer, as a notorious criminal both in this colony and in New Zealand. It is stated that he escaped from custody at Christchurch, where he has been arrested on a charge of burglary.
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 1035, 16 May 1883, Page 3
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