NEW SOUTH WALES.

Southland Times, Issue 1233, 5 April 1870, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Sydney, March 19. The River Hawkesbury continued rising all night, and this morning the town of Windsor waa partly submerged. There has been immense destruction of crops, live stock, and other property. The third reading of the Divorce Bill is strongly opposed, and the debate has been adjourned for a week. March 21, The rain again fell heavily on Saturday night, with a southerly gale blowing with great violence. The rivers Hunter and Hawkesbury rose very high, and are still swollen to an alarming extent, though slowly subsiding. The ketch Ino has been wrecked at Newcastle, but the crew were saved in the lifeboat. . , The Bchooner Hilander, laden with coal trucks for the Lambton Company, is also a total wreck. The floods are general along the whole of the coast district, and there has not been a fine day for the past four weeks. The late maize crop is completely ruined by the excessive wet weather. There are no signs of the weather clearing up. A telegram from Araluen reports a heavy flood there, and the mining claims filled with water. Holders of maize are asking advanced rates. Intelligence has been received of the wreck of the barque Sunshine of Sydney, on the coast of Borneo. She was insured here. A strong gale is blowing along the coast. The barques Leonidas and Oara are riding at the Q-overnment moorings, Wollongong, with a tremendous sea breaking on the shore. ~ '-■■ The River Hunter is again rising at Singleton. Several lives have been lost along the Clarence Eiver. March 22. A dry westerly wind has set in, and is now causing a rapid subsidence of the floods. Mr MTadden, farmer, and Mr M'Lachlan, baker, have been drowned at Maitland. The full Court has been asked to grant an injunction to prevent the sale by the London Chartered Bank of Mr Hugh Glass's NWeranie station. The arguments are. not yet finished. The Government are considering the advisability of reducing the intercolonial tariff charges. The schooner Active sails this week with men and materials to construct a telegraph line from Townsville to the north-west boundary of Queensland to meet the ocean cable. A boat has been capsized at NarraibrL Thomas Smith, a deserter from the Galatea, was drowned. The body of another person, name unknown, has been found. A murder at Cox's Creek is rumored. The particulars have not yet been received. March 23. The Rangoon, from Melbourne for Newcastle, drove ashore near Kiama yesterday morning, during a fearful gale. Captain Charles sent to Kiama and obtained a boat, which rescued the crew and landed them at Shoalhaven. The Rangoon has since become a total wreck. The Goulburn Agricultural Show ia postponed in consequence of the weatherThere has been a second flood in the Hawkesbury, through the subsidiary creeks rising to an unusual extent. A splendid aurora Australis was visible last night. A clerk named Evans committed suicide last night, owing, it is alleged, to the reductions made in hi* department.

A heavy flood is reported in the Braidwood district, and mail communication is for the present stopped. One man has been drowned. The G-overnment have directed the ad« mission of all wines intended for the Intercolonial Exhibition duty free. Most of the passages by the second steamer on the Californian line have been already secured. March 24. The formation of an Omnibus Company is mooted, and it is likely to be successfully started, id • ■ The Wesleyans intend erecting a new college at Stanmor. ; The R.M:S. Malta, on her present trip, 'takes 7,3890z. gold, and 52,885 sovereigns. " The Legislative Assembly are in committee of supply. The River Hunter has fallen sufficiently to allow the trains to resume their regular , trips. j The markets are quiet. Maize is quoted at 4s to 4s 6d. | * March 25. ! The chief engineer and accountant of the Railway department have been examined before the Assembly, respecting the alleged misappropriation of moneys voted, but nothing has been elicited. The Martha Rideout, for California, has put in leaky. All the points against M'Kinlay's conviction have been decided in favor of the Crown. A very large number of entries have beeti made for the next Rand wick meeting^ but the lists have not been completed in lime for the closing of the telegraph. The Legislative Assembly are debating the Divorce Bill. March 26. In the Legislative Assembly, the Divorce Bill has evoked a strong opposition, and the debate on the third reading has been again adjourned. There is, however, apparently a majority in its favor, and the bill will most likely pass. When it reaches the Upper House it is generally believed that it will be shelved. The R.M.S. Malta sailed this morning at 9 o'clock with the English mails via Suez; The Wonga Wonga cleared out with mails and passengers for England and America, via the Californian route, and sailed punctually at 4 p.m. The supplementary mail and passengers by fchoßangatira were two hours late. They l will proceed to Auckland on Monday by the City of Melbourne. _ Rumors as to something -being wrong in the accounts of the Railway department have culminated in the suspension of the accountant, pending an inquiry. The charge is that the money has not been applied to the specific works voted by the Assembly. i A large number attended to witness the sculling race to-day. Rush led for a mile and a half, and was then fairly beaten. Hickey passed him, and won easily. A letter from Gilberton River reports that three bushrangers had attempted to rob Towns's store, when they shot a man named Simpson. The leader of the bushrangers was shot through the body and thigh. The robbers then retreated, when one of them was drowned in crossing the Gilberton.