TELEGRAMS.

Temuka Leader, Volume 2, Issue 123, 22 February 1879, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

,[Rrom Exchanges.] Mr Parkes unwed a Bill in the New South Wales Parliament to outlaw the Kellys, and punish their accomplices. He stated that joint action had been taken with Victoria for the arrest of the Kellys, but the arrangements were secret. The New South "Wales Goverment offers a reward of £3OOO and the Banks £IOOO for the capture of the Kellys. Victoria offers a similar amount, making a total of £BOOO. Numbers are proceeding to the border. In the Assembly last night Sir Henry Parkes continued the statement as to an increased reward being offered for the capture of the Kellys. He intimated that the Government woidd probably ask the Assembly and Council to suspend the Standing Orders to Pass the Outlawry Bill in one sitting. The brig Raymond, from Newcastle to Timaru, with coal, has been wrecked on Cape Howe. She sprang a leak and ran ashore. Three lives were lost. A diamond tiara valued at four hundred guineas lias been presented to Lady Bowen. The English Eleven, without the professionals, beat the Bohemian Fifteen in one innings, and won the match by 255 against 228. The Englishmen will not play another game in Sydney. The Garonne’s news confirms the Zulu disaster, but removes anxiety for Hie safety of Natal. The British reinforcements occupied the field aipong their dead comrades, and the Zulus were held in restraint. The British vainly fought with desperate valour. Twenty-live thousand Zulus swooped down on them. The Governor laid the foundation stone of the Sydney International Exhibition. A boat-load of pleasure-seekers frollicking on the Avon, Christchurch, on Wednesday last, were upset, and got a sound ducking, and but for a passing boat would have resulted fatally, as two of the number wore women and another a baby. The water was deep and swift at the spot. The interior Canterbury railway is to be commenced at once, instructions having been given the Railway Engineer to begin the earthwork on the Temuka-Rangitata and Oxford-Malvern sections. By the recent San Francisco mail the Railway Department has received advices of the shipment of fifty additional sets of iron work for roadside wagons, per G. B. S., from London. These wagons are intended for the Christchurch section, and as the vessel sailed on the 12 December, she may be expected to arrive in the course of two or three weeks. The Governor declined the invitation of the Mayor and Councillors of Port Chalmers to lunch at Dodson’s Hotel there. The execution of "Walsh, for the murder of his wife at Waikawa, took place on "Wednesday morning, in the precincts of the gaol. Shortly after seven o’clock "Walsh was brought from His cell into the reception-room of the gaol, and there pinioned by the executioner, a little under-sized Jew. who wont about the work in a most business-like way, and displayed great coolness. Walsh made no statement. On the pinioning being completed, "Walsh was escorted to the place of execution, attended by Father Higgins. He walked slowly, hut without the slightest apparent trepidation, round the courtyard to the scaffold, the steps of which he ascended unaided. The service used on these occasions was performed by Father Higgins, Walsh making the responses in an audible, firm, though rauflled tone of voice. Presently the white cap was put on, and the executioner having adjusted the halter, went below to his station. Prayers were continued ; the hangman, at a signal from-the Sheriff, drew the bolt. There was a slight click, which told those outside that all was over. Heath, however, seemed to ha\ e taken place simultaneously with the drop, as only a few convulsive movements for perhaps two or three minutes took place. At a reaper and binder competition at Tokomairiro on Thursday, the result was —• McCormick's, 95 points ; Wood’s, 80 points : Marsh’s, 75 points. The Osborne was withdrawn. The Government of Brisbane have sent instructions to the Agent-General to stop emigration from the Continent of Europe, and to reduce the British emigration by onethird. The blacks continue to be troublesome in Queensland. News has just been received of the murder of four Europeans on the Bourke liver. At "Westport, on Thursday last, the wife of Charles Sibrie, alias Yankee Charlie, gave information to Constable Callaghan sufficient to warrant the arrest of Sibrie for the murder of Thomas Costello, at Boatman’s Creek, Reefton, in 1872. At the time of the murder Sibrie and another were tried, but discharged. Sibrie and Ids wife have been quarrelling lately. Mrs Sibrie’s statement to the police goes to show that Sibrie struck Costello on the head with an augur, then rifled his pockets of several bank notes, put the body in a canvas bag, and removed it to a hole made by an uprooted tree. In the morning he shifted it into a culvert, but hearing that a search was to bo made, he again removed the body back to the bole in which he had placed the body previously. The Jcircumstantial evidence against Sibrie has always been strong.