NEW SOUTH WALES.

Southland Times, Volume 2, Issue 90, 15 September 1863, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydney, 31=t August. On Saturday, Sergeant Stephenson and ;three troopers, having got on the track of some bushrangers, followed them up to a place fifty miles from Goulburn, where they found seven in a public-house. Lowry, who was one of them, fired three times at Sergeant Stephenson, but without effect. The Sergeant then •■fired and shot Lowry in the throat. He died shortly afterwards. L2OO in bank notes, boing some of those taken at the Mudgee mail robbery, were found on .him. The seven ruffians were lodged in Goulburn gaol. On the same afternoon the Demondrill station was robbed. The police were informed, and three troopers went out in pursuit. After travelling some distance they -saw four horses tied up to a tree. On nearing them, some men rushed out of a hut. close by, and, filing on the police, wounded one man and all their horses. A general attack was then made, which resulted in the police securing two of the men, several of the horse", and a quantity of property wliich they had stolen from the station, lt is proposed here that ths Intercolonial rowing match shall take place in the middle of .November. An inquest has been held on Lowry, the bushranger, and a verdict of justifiable homicide returned. Mr Cooper's reply to the Hivcrine delegates denies tho existence of the grievances complained of, and refuses to sanction the partition of thecolony. The Asscm ily is nowjengaged in debat ng Foster's motion affirming that the result of the Tarriff Conference is unsatisfactory. Young, Aug. 31. Inspector Orridge, late of the Victorian police fjree, accompanied by a trooper and a black tracker, went last night to a hut where it was reported that some bushrangers were concealed. They had dismounted, and were rcconnoitering, when the rascals surprised them, wounded the black tracker, stole their horses, and fled. Mr Barnes, a storekeeper, was killed here for resisting some bushrangers on a plundering expedition. He was shot through the head. All music and dancing licences have been cancelled in the town, Maitland, 31st Aug. At the Criminal Sessions to-day, Wilson, the murderer of Peter Clarke, was sentenced to death.