SYDNEY.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 18, 9 January 1863, Page 3

SYDNEY.

I- December 19. t , A miner named Chudleighhas been killed , fey a "blast at Newcastle. ; The Hint Bill has been withdrawn, and the . Colonial Wines Bill passed. ■ Parliament is to be prorogued to-morrow. : It is stated that the Murray and Richmond , Rivers abound Avith 'cod, and that numbers ( ihave been successfully shipped te Sydney for ] •. • > ' ! A very strong feelin* is spreading against the appropriation of the collection for the ; 'Lancashire Relief Fund towards •establishing . !Bcliools,instead of relieving present distress. . i It has been ascertained that the arbitration ; squatting disputes under the Land Act have i been more costly than Supreme Court trials. . . A nurse-girl has been fined LlO at the • Central Police Court for ill-using a child. ; Arrived. — Alice Cameron, from Auckland. • Sailed. — Gratia, for Otago. : December 20. Mr Rain, owner of property adjoining the ; Wentworth gold-fields, purposes throwing , open the ridges to diggers, on condition that they fill up all holes if they strike no gold, and if gold be struck pay LI per month. Mr O'Connor, sharebroker, has been drowned whilst bathing at Lachlan. The Cowra mail was stopped on Tuesday , by an armed man, and the bags and passengers rifled. John Bell and F. Beeton were drowned iuring the storm at Araluen. The dead body , of another drowned man, unknown, has been found. The Real Property of Intestates Inheritance Bill has been reserved for Royal consideration ; also the State Aid Bill. The Supreme Court has decided to-day ihatthe Chief Commissioner has no discretion to refuse acceptance of sequestrations, if jffered, if satisfied that the assets are really -flfaqficient. December 22. dm The City Council adjourned in great haste ■JBo-day, in consequpnee of the disorderly contrSuct of Alderman Raphael. W A fire broke out after midnight on Satur--Blay, in the office of Index Radley's antiRnasonic paper, over Scrivener's, George- • Street. Only papers in office were destroyed, "Bind some of Scrivener's stock damaged by islK-ater. It was evidently the work of an infiendiary. %g W& Rule nisi has. been granted to-day by the Court, with a view to set aside a u J»astardy order against Thame, at the instance »d»f Mr Warner. ofH There is great excitement about the approRriation of the relief fund. Judge Wise has ■Jsftublished au elaborate defence of the course ofßursued. The Herald and Empire- have J « rticles condemning it. At a great meeting [P'fti Freemasons' Hall, this afternoon, he also *?Hefended them ; but the meeting was against ijjfcm. Resolutions were passed condemning ie -Bhe appropriations, and it was resolved to ■ of ßrite to England to that effect. , VA'The Planet brings 24,000. bags of sugar. ( J»^he Northam took 128,000 sovereigns, and . isnHOjOOO ozs. of gold. j i3feArrival. — Blackwall, from London. ""?■ December 23. ; ut fi Windeyer has publicly resigned his seat i *ijfi>r West Sydney, as interfering Avith his ; jylßractice in his profession. _ ' pfiThe misappropriation of the Lancashire DnjKelief Fund has been protested against at a • >mHublic meeting at Windsor. : soHThe murder of the warder in Berrima i ij,«aol has been traced to one of the prisoners j Jmere, who has been committed for trial. i 9 •'{■ Accounts from the Lachlan state that : ionj&eatly increased quantities of gold are being '. ebwwashed out. i ?^H ?* c contest between the miners of the Viclr^!jß>rian and Californian Leads was brought Before the Supreme Court to-day. The appeal - f&sfi the former was sustained, but the dispute i L 9» mams Practically unsettled. he H Arrival.— Spray, from New Zealand. ; f^Sj December 24. 'B Mr Tighe is elected for Northumberland. ; ■ Provisions unusually dear. *H Mr Brooks, of Penrith, has been fined L 5 < ndtm* assaulting Mr Wrench, of Richardson and during a dispute about a claim by ■ -Be latter fiim. . HThe Yass Courier reports numerous cases of in that quarter of late.

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