NEW SOUTH WALES.

Southland Times, Volume I, Issue 52, 8 May 1863, Page 2 (Supplement)

NEW SOUTH WALES.

"~ Wd have received' our files of Sydney papers to'the i'Bth April. ' ' : fi Mr. C;' Croft, who was lost in. the bush for 15 days .whilst on his waytjo the station of Mir. C! W. Bucknell, sue- .' ceeded'in reaching the aStation on the 4th instant in a state of, great exhaus-; tiom J The Burrangong Star of 11th inst., says: — The ruffianly gang of the notorious Gardiner.appears to be slowly-r---but we have jio doubt ere long will he effectually — broken up.. .Some links in tbe chain that bind these desperadoes in crime together are severed. 'Three of the gang are'now in custody of the police authorities. Captain Zouch, the superintndent of police for this district, .•has taken active, quiet, and sure steps for the apprehension of the remainder, and we have no doubt before many days have, passed -we shall hear of the ' arrVst of more of the villian«*. Information hasbeen received by the police that a murder has recently b^en Committed between Narrawa and Wallah Wallah. It appears that a -boy who is engaged in shepherdinsr for Mr. Reid discovered the' body of a man, respectably dressed, in a half-standing posture, partly buried in a hole near the scrub ; on disinterring it, it was found that there, was a fracture of tlie it is supposed that the deceased lered about a fortnight since. ourier. ilbury Banner says that the own as " horehound" is heft great nuisance to agriculin some of the country dis- . are apple trees in the gardens iennlayne, at Frankfield, and swell, Fairyhole Creek, near ft have a second growth of the he new apples are described to ■..than pullet's egss. We bese are not the only instances son of the second growth on the same kind. We learn also lore than One vineyard in this j hood the grape haa shown is remarkable a phenomena, J is to be apprehended the fruit will be cut off by the ich have already set in. — Yass leld of gold at Jembaicumbene turning out recent! v remark - I. In one of the claims near Hassell and Roberts boundary, been very rich, yielding an of fourteen to fifteen ounces . The washing out of Monday 150 ounces. The new digAraluen are also progressing sr ably.— Braidwood Observer. reat match between Traveller >gle, for £1000, came off on on the Randwick Racecourse, (von hy Traveller, nmittee has been formed to iscriptions for the erection of nnell monument, cv. Mr. Boulton, clergyman of •eh of England, his been ad'uilty in a case of affiliation, psigned his living, espondent, writing from Mudthe Uth instant, says- — Mr. , of Mudgee, has just brought Hargraves, better known as nd lodged in the safe of DickJurrows, 200 ozs. erold, crushed ;y tons quartz. The reefs are s and rich. The one he has ened is situated near the spot ie celebrated nugget of Dr. : found by the blackfellow some ' o. When Mr. Chappell gets hree Hall's crushers, now on he will be able to do about ntity in a day.^ Should the ittnue equally rich, they will the world. Wednesday evening a Chinese Old Linton discovered a nughing an ounce and a quarter, singular place. While sitting • his fire he espied a bright obcleft in one of the logs, and on animation the nugget was reFrom the position in which ■jet was found, there is reason se that the branch had grasped growth, atld held it until the . the fire compelled it to give tasure in the way we have seen. .Advocate, April 4. iiursday morning, 9th instant, If a mile north of the top_ of '_ Range, a gentleman coming rnirundi,saw a man on ahorse looking down to conceal his turning towards him he oblaqk crape covering his face, mediately started off in the i of some drovers who were owards. Murrurundi, the robber pursuit. The drovers, five in with a. mob of cattle, were \ yards, distant. The robber him up to the party, when a an named Peter Clarke started a packhorse. The robber imy pursued liim, and called twice |6 stop. He then fired twice, jm in the neck the second shot. ialted and dismounted ; after ► the bushranger demanded his 31ark*e delayed giving it, and jave it the bushranger stamped "and' said, <<: cash." Clarke ad nonie, glanced at his mates, sw his arifis round the bushlalling to, them; both fell into sf, the bushranger uppermost ; ranger then fired and shot Mr. v the left breast, 5 and killed him the spot. At this moment mates came up and captured granger, -who made a great get; away, and in the scuffle riself by accident in the He was then secured, and je, coroner,' and doctor sent for. hranger.had a piece of black i'dii bis face,, with a false yeldJ 7, He is 7*4 'young man, of c or jtwb .an<i twenty years of feet nine in height, no beard era, andspeaks like an Irish-

man.7:. He was dressed in a ragged redaiid black Crimean shirt, with a very old cabbage-tree^hat, and' was tiding ahorse he had stolen from Mr. Walsh, at the foot of the range the night before. On se&rching hira, he had a niimber of L5; notes cut in half, a box of caps, and ' box: of ammunition; and in his pack was a coat and pair of trousers, in the pockets . of which was a.large box of ammunition •*. a knife and lookingglass ! were also found. He had a pair of moleskin trousers packed into Wellington boots. He was placed in a cart with the dead body, and taken in to M v rru ru n d i . — Sydney Mail. A system of rascally piracy in the South Seas has just br-en exposed. Some miscreants have been kidnapping the islanders, and selling them into forced labor in Peru. The French authorities at Tahiti have laid their hands on some of these fellows, and will doubtless do them justice. A sharper look-out will be kept for the future, and the islanders themselves being now on the gui vive will take precautions against, similar depredations. — Sydney MailThe escort from Burrangong this week has been the poorest yet known, being only 109 ounces. There is a new rush, however, to a spot about | twelve miles from the township, which, it is hoped, will revive the fortunes of { the district.— -Sydney Mail. j Mr. Thomas Chappell has obtained 200 ounces of gold, the proceeds of 40 ' tons quartz, from a reef at Hargreaves. ( gi/dney Morning Herald.