NEW SOUTH WALES

Southland Times, Volume III, Issue 48, 26 February 1864, Page 6

NEW SOUTH WALES

Ga-iLBEBT. — Aj private letter ft'oni Burrowa states that on -the evening of the 18th ult. Gilbert went to a store within a short distance of tke Burrowa. "i police station, and purchased (and paid j for) some tobacco, Crimean shirts, and .'btherartlclea.'-^^^^'JfpT'w^'^^ff^ ;' : Ben. Hawd jiisn) 'his $m.. iFbiidE.*-*-Informatiofi reached Young on Thui's*day of some ten persons,' including several; of the Mr sex; haying been stiick-up while: on tiieir, way to. "the 'anniversary races on Tuesday last, by ■ (it is - supposed) the notorious bush= ! yaftger. Ben Hall,;wbo allowed tbem to pass upon -the ladies': assurance that their finances were not in a flourishing state. The Burrowa police went next morning in pursuit, but without••'Buqjcess. On the following day, about two o'clock, Mr. Sheedy, of Back Creek, Mr. Hutchinson, of Murrumburrah, and Mr. Bass, poundkeeper, on their return from the races, when near Kellergen, were met by Ben Hall at different places on the MUrrumburrah road, who issued an authoritative , mandate to •" Stand and deliver," which j they did. Mr.- Sheedy handed over £8, Mr" Hutchinson £9, but Mr. Bass suspecting the intentions of Hall before he closed upon them, managed to secrete his money beneath the saddle, and feigning to be very thirsty, got Hall's leave, after being searched, to go to a quarry hard by for some water* where some men were at work. He grumbled to some extent at losing his money ih a general gambling transaction. Fortunately, Mr. Sheedy had the most of his cash converted into a cheque — a document not negotiable on the highway. Hall, in his usual cool way, conversed with them on various topics, remarking that but for this trifling circumstance the race programme would have been a miserable failure, as nobody seemed to carry ready cash now. Mr. Sheedy's boy was some little distance behind, leading the race-horse Black Diamond, and suspecting what was going on, and observing that he was about to be intercepted, let go the horse and started him towards Burrowa. The bushrangers failed in overtaking Diamond, whom they pursued to the confines of Burrowa. The horse knew the district thoroughly, aud arrived in the township a long way iv advance of his pursuers. Mr. G-arry's race-horse Willy the Weazle, which has been in possession of the bushrangers for some time, was found the day after the races' in Mr. Smellie's paddock, quite knocked up, — ABarranyony and Burrowa Times.