NEW SOUTH WALES.

Colonist, Volume III, Issue 210, 25 October 1859, Page 4

NEW SOUTH WALES.

i {From the Sydney Bra.) A letter frpm Rockhampton states that a meeting haifbeen held there" for the purpose of memorialising the Government to examine the capabilities of the various parts to the north, previous to fixing the site of the seat of Government for the. new colony of Queensland, as it is generally considered that Brisbane is not sufficiently central for the purpose, besides laboring under the disadvantage of a bad port. Active steps are being taken for the purpose of establishing a School of Arts at the Glebe. With this view a meeting was held at the University Hotel, on Monday evening, at 1 which Mr. J. Campbell, M.L.A., presided, when a resolution to the effect, "That a literary and scientific institution, to be called «The Glebe School of Arts,'be now, and is hereby established," was unanimously adopted. It has been decided at a large meeting of the inhabitants to establish a municipality at Balmain. A bazaar has been held at the Temperance Hall, Pitt-street, in aid of the funds of the Young Men's Christian Association. It was welf attended, and we believe the results are highly satisfactory. - ; An influential meeting Was held at Burwood for the purpose of considering the present exhorbitant charges on the Great Southern Railway. A petition tj the Le--gislature was adopted, praying for a full: enquiry into all matters connected with the present system of management. At the Maitland Assizes, William Ross was convicted of the wilful murder of John Hamilton, at Walcha, on the 15th April last, and sentenced to death. The parties had had a quarrel, when Ross deliberately shot Hamilton in the groin with a pistol, from the effects of which he died in a few hours' afterwards. Mr. Briggs, a sawyer' on the Clarence River, and his mate, had a narrow escape a short time ago, haying been surrounded in their liut by a mob of about thirty native blacks. A movement is being made at Braidwood for the purpose of; perpetuating in some form or other the memory of the late Dr. Thomas Braidwood Wilson, the founder of that town. .: , ; M . Madam Jaffa's concert at the Exchange on Wednesday evening, was well attended, and is spoken of as being quite a musical treat. A deputation of the Melbourne Chamber of Commerce waited upon the Premier on Monday last, and, in, answer to enquiries, elicited that £100,000 had been placed on the estimates for the defences of thecolony. '■ A man named James Talant died at Kenmore, near Goulburn lately, who had reached the great age of 107: he was an old soldier. The Groidbum Chronicle says;—The public will be glad to learn that it has been definitively determined t6 introduce the money: order system in connexion with the telegraph. The system will probably be introduced by the beginning of the year, if not earlier. ■, M . A petition against the withdrawal of salaries from the chaplains on the goldfields, and containing about 1300 signatures, has been forwarded from Braidwood to Mr. T. A. Murray, for presentation to the Legislative Assembly. .;. The total number of ounces of gold deli--1 vered at the Sydney Mint from the various gold-fields in New South Wales during the week ending October 1. was 10,059 oz. 10 grs. . The Commercial Bank, and the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered Bank, have established branch banks, at Kiama. The former bank is "also about,opening a similar institution at Queanbeyan. An affiliation case was lately tried at Berrima, when the bench having decided against the complainant, she deliberately placed the child in front of the magistrates, telling them they might keep it themselves and was about to leave the court, when the ' chief constable brought her back and made her carry off the child with her. As Mr. G. Brown was proceeding homewards to St. Hilliers from Musswell-brpok, lately, the horse on which he was riding became restive, commenced buck-jumping, and ultimately came to the ground with its rider, when Mr. Brown's leg was. broken below the knee—thebone protruding through the skin. A trooper named John Baird, belonging to the Rocky River patrol, has deserted, taking with him a horse and accoutrements. The accounts from the various country districts are most cheering. There, is a prospect of a fine harvest, and grass and water is abundant almost everywhere.; i Post Office receivers were about Jo be erected in Bathurst, two or three having arrived there for that purpose. .;/ T^e- body: of. the missing man, William Witts, was found a short time since in the iShoalhaven, a few yards; from where the raft was discovered. From the appearance of the body, it is surmised that some foul play has taken place. ' . Duncan M'Oorpindale, of the ketch Emu was accidentally drowned in the Richmond River, lately, having fallen overboard from that vessel. ' "Sir Charles Nicholson delivered his second lecture on Ancient Egypt, at" the School of Arts, on Tuesday evening, October 4. The audience was very numerous. A man named John,.. Clay, employed by Mr. Kurtz, baker, of Castlereagh-street, to deliver bread, collect money, &c, has been committed for trial for embezzling money from his employer. '•.-'" - i William Thomas,' a youtn of 15, has been sentenced at the Bathurst Circuit Court to twelvemonths' imprisonment,'for an.indecent assault upon a little girl seven years of age. Robert Davis, a shepherd, was convicted and sentenced to death for the wilful murder at Dubbo, of an old man named Roger

"Flood, 80 years of age, by inflicting various severe wounds with a tomahawk upon the deceased. . - •The Braidwood Despatch, on the subject of the'value of property, reports that Mr. T. W. Wallis sold.the Odd Fellows Inn, 1 and half an acre of land, the property of Mr. H. S. Cottor, for the sum of £1500. The Border Post states that a man named Frederick Johnson has been committed to take his trial for the manslaughter of one John. Newman. It appears the parties had a quarrel, when Johnson fell upon hi 3 victim, and administered such ill-usage as to cause his death. The occurrence took place at Corrowa. Jemmy, a Chinaman, has been convicted at the Maitland Assizes, on the evidence of his countrymen, of the murder of Sam Pong, by stabbing him with a pair of shears, and sentenced to death. An association has been formed at Narellen for the purpose of establishing^ a public reading room, in connection with monthly lectures. On the 20th ultimo, a little girl, the daughter of Mr.. James Armfield, was accidentally drowned at Berrima in the Wingecarribbee River. The Gayndah correspondent of the Moreton Bay Courier, writing on the 13th «.ultimo, says:—"No rain yet, and of course Jqo grass; lambing going on, .butl fearj heavy losses will be sustained'; our gardens i look miserable, and the country around is 1 parched and blighted. Rain! rain! is the general cry." A fine boj, ten years of age, son of Mr. J. Mafles, of Bega, was drowned in a water holeat that place a fiew days ago, having tumbled into the water whilst amusing himself by throwing a dog in to try if it could swim. A petition has been forwarded to the Government from Orange, praying that a sum of money may be placed on the Estimates for the extension of the telegraph from Bathurst to the abov6 place. Edwin Towns, described as "an actor out of employ," has been committed for trial for stealing about £6 in money from Lithman Menser, of York-street, with whom he lodged. '. 21,464 chairs were imported in Sydney, consigned to the Railway Commissioners. James Barnes, a carter in the employ of Mr. J Gould, of Botany, was accidentally killed by being thrown from a cart, the horse he was driving at the time having run away. William Day, the Bathurst mail robber, has been convicted at the Bathurst Assizes, and sentenced to hard labor for .seven years.. , ;; ; : < \ ' Daniel Carlind, said to be an American, died a few days ago, from the effects of a Wound inflicted with a pair of scissors by a woman named Mary Ann Brady, with whom he attempted to take indecent liberties. She has been committed for trial for murder. Sir Charles Nicholson delivered a lecture at the School of Arts, on Ancient Egypt. The lecture was illustrated by numerous maps, diagrams, &c, and was listened to by a ' very numerous and select audience. 1 A German named Wacker, employed in repairing the roof of the Episcopalian School-rhouse at Cook's river, fell from that i building lately, and received such injuries that his life is despaired of. Thomas Cartwright, employed as a shepherd near Wagga Wagga, has been apprehended on suspicion of having murdered his wife. . The poor woman presented all the appearances of fearful ill-usage about her body, besides which there was no less than five wounds about the head, either one of which was sufficient to cause death. Cartwright is described as a man of ferocious character. Mr. Skinner, late Manager of the Joint Stock Bank at Wagga Wagga, met with a rather serious accident on his way from the former place, to Goulburn. It appears he was not able to manage the horse he was driving, and the gig having turned over on a nasty sidling piece of road, -Mr. Skinner was thrown .out, and besides having two of his ribs broken was otherwise injured. Mrs. Skinner, who accompanied him, was not hurt. A regular rumpus appears to exist among i the inhabitants of Balmain, relative to a municipality, some being in favor of and others against it. Meetings have been held at which both sides of the question have been ably and temperately discussed, and the feeling with regard to the incorporation of the hamlet seems to be about equal on either sicle. '* Man Wants but Littk.''->-A young spark quotes Goldsmith to the effect that >•• man wants but little here below." In proof we give his list of daily wants: —" A bottle of soda water the first thing in the morning. A clean shirt, and breakfast— * ,tea, toast, sardines and boiled ham—served ;■•: tip with the newspaper. A cigar with' cold brandy and water. The loan of five pounds. Lunch, with sherry. Dinner with champagne. Tea, served up with a ticket for the opera (with the manager's compliments). Invitation to supper. Last, though no least, a cab or a policeman, which bringt us to the soda-water again. But the poos fellow cannot always have his daily wants supplied. Would you know the reason why? Because he has no cash, no friends, and nothing to do; and if he had he wouldn't do it.