AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1312, 21 April 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(RY IJABLK. —RKUTKU’S TELEORAMN). MELBOURNE, April 17. Further particulars regarding the robbery at the Colonial Bank, Brunswick, show that the sum of £715 was stolen, not £6OO as at first supposed. The manager of the branch has bee; 1 , suspended, pending an enquiry into the affair. The Tarawera, which left yesterday for the Bluff, took on board at the Heads the Eng. lish mails brought by the P. and O. steamship Rosetta. April 19. The Victorian Government have invited the New South Wales and South Australian Governments to join in instructing the AgentGeneral in London to communicate with the Imperial authorities in «upp rtof the annexa tion of New Guinea Mr Service has already telegraphed to Mr Murray Smith, the Viettorian representative in London, requesting him to favor annexation. Victorian wheat statistics of the Northern Counties has been published. They show that last seasons yield was 5, 820,000 bushels producing an average of 8-85 to the acre, against 6,000,000 bushels, and an average of 9'46 last year. The “Australian ” is sending an agricultural reporter on a lengthened tour through the United States. SYDNEY, April 18. In the Legislature Assembly this evening the Postmaster-General tabled a resolution regarding the San Francisco service. The motion provides for the extension of the present service for a period of two years, the subsidy being fixed at £60.000, of which £lB, 760 is to be contributed by New South Wales, on the understanding that the service shall be shortened by 24 hours for the first year, and 48 hours for the second year, the Company to be relieved of the obligation of keeping a fourth vessel in the service. A DELI ADE, April 19. The advance official statistics of the South Australian wheat crop for last season shows 1 hat the average has only been sixteen bushels per acre. LAUNCESTON, April 19. The particulars of the Epping tragedy in Tasmania, referred to in a recent cable message, state that Wilson, a repairer on the railway, lived half-way between Epping and Cleveland, and had gone to bed at the usual hour on the night of the 9th. He was aroused by stones being thrown on the house, and got up to find out the cause, when he was shot by the prisoner Ogden, who is 20

years of age. Wibon died shortly after- | wards. The murderers then fired through ; the windows of the house, wounding ; Mrs Boram, who was living in the ■ house. Before leaving they set fire to the ! house, which was quickly burnt. The act is attributed not to the object of robbery but rather to an insane desire for Kelly notoriety. Ogden and Davies, after Wilson’s attaed a line repairer and scalped him ; they also murdered A. Holman, a driver of Page’s mail coach, whom they shot without warning They were captured by Cohstable Phillips and two settlers, on the afternoon of the 18th They boasted they could have shot the constable and Inspector Palmer, whom they covered with guns in the dark. They were quite unconcerned, and sang Kelly songs on the way to the lock-up,