AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 83, 15 January 1872, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS

Melbourne, Dec. 30. Mr CorriN has involved himself in an imbroglia, in consequence of asserting at a performance that the Governor was in the habit of visiting theatres as a dead bead. The Governor’s Private Secretary, Lieut. Rotlnvell, denied, in a manly letter, that Ilis Excellency availed himself of tho free list. Mr Coppin made an unsatisfactory reply, and comes off second best. Mr Coppin’s action in the matter was highly unpopular. A body was found in the Yarra, believed to be a man named Bochin.

The yield of the Great Extended Hustlers for eight days was 3000 ozs. Mr Dully is recruiting his health at Serreuto, Point Nepean.

Other members of the Government arc being feted by their constituencies. There is little doing commercially in consequence of the holidays. Tookeys are unsaleable, although offered at £29.

Arrived:— lo, from Grcymouth ; Our Hope from Wanganui ; Hero, from Auckland ; Northern Light from Hokitika.

Sydney, Dee 29. The Divorce Bill framed in Cominitteo of both Houses was adjourned till after the Christmas holidays.

The South Australian Government declines to join in the expense of sending a steamer from Port Darwin to Normanstown, where there is to be an express till the land line is laid across the continent.

The intercolonial University boat race was in favour of Melbourne. The intercolonial cricket match was as follows : Sydney, first innings, 185 ; Victoria, first innings, 100; second, 59 for four wickets. They arc still playing. The Eclipse expedition has been feted at Queensland and Sydney, and left for Melbourne. Elias Rosenwax was. on the 21st ult., brought .up for sentence at the Melbourne Criminal Sessions. He seemed to he very much affected, and unable to restrain his tears. The Revs. M. Riutel and A. F. Ornstein, and Messrs S. Solcberg, John Matthew Smith, Moss Mark, and H. Sclielmm, all of whom had known prisoner for several years, deposed as to his previous good character. The prisoner did not address the Court himself. Mr Justice Molcswortli, in passing sentence, said the prisoner appeared to have used his good character to obtain credit, with the view of cheating those who trusted him. For fraudulently obtaining goods from Mr Alfred Watson, and Messrs M'Arthur, Sherraid, and Copeland, he was sentenced on the two charges to 18 months’ hard labour; for absconding prior to his insolvency with £2O worth of property belonging to his creditors, he received a sentence of two years’ hard labour. The sentences, which arc cumulative, amount to three years and a half in all. In connection with the latter case, Mr .Justice Molesworth remarked that the prisoner had evidently defrauded his creditors of much more money than was found on him.

A serious charge agaiqst detective Christie was made i>y George Iloldcn, at the .Melbourne Criminal Sessions, on the 21st ult., previous to his being sentenced on the charge to which lie had pleaded guilty of fraudulently receiving some

jewellery stolen burglariously from Mr Spanns, jeweller, Elizabeth-street. After denying all knowledge of the burglary and theft himself, be alleged that the property traced to him had been handed to him by detective Christio, for tho purpose of sacrificing two innocent persons known as Barney Lane and Mother Waddle. The arrangement between him and the detective was, he said, that he should take he jewellery to Barney Lane and Mother Waddle, sell it to them for £35, and give Christie £lO, and, immediately the sale was concluded, the detective would rush the house and catch Mr Lane and Mrs Waddle with the stolen property in their hands. As soon, however, as he (Holden) got the property he bolted with it to Adelaide, where he was arrested, and where he told his present story to detective Mackay, tho arresting Victorian officer. Had tho property been found with Lane or Waddle, Christie would, he remarked, have received a reward from its lawful owner. When he was in the Melbourne lock-up, detective Christie had, he said, called on him, and asked him not to tell anyone besides Mackay, and had promised to get him out of the mess. Mr Justice Molesworth said prisoners were very much addicted to making up plausible stories, but on tnc statements of such persons very little reliance could be placed. From the prisoner’s own showing lie had committed a serious crime. The prisoner, who had been previously convicted four times, was sentenced to hard labor for two years and a half, for which he thanked his Honor. We understand that the charge made by Holden is being inquired into by the Sheriff and Mr Sturt P.M.

The wife stabbing and attempted suicide case, in which Charles East, a miner, of White-bills, and his wife, were the principals, was heard in the Maryborough Police Court, on the 18th ult. The specific charge against East was that of stabbing his wife with intent to kill, and on this he was committed to take his trial at the next Circuit Court in Maryborough. The case revealed gross infidelity on the part of the wife, who in cross-examination infercntially admitted, on the plea of going to service, cohabiting with another man. Witnesses swore to the prisoner’s averment that he had committed the crime through jealousy, and that a man named Gunther had, according to the accused’s statement to them, been living with his wife, in his ignorance of the fact. When brought into the Court the woman was in a debilitated condition from the wound in her side ; and the prisoner in the box, who had his throat bandaged, had during the progress of the case to be accomodated with a chair, to enable him to get through the trial. The prisoner, wishing to make a statement, was allowed, after the usual caution to do so, and stated—“ I was mad. I did not know what I was doing. I would not hurt a worm if I had been in my right senses.” Mudgee, Dec. 30.

Mr Parkes was badly received by the people in tho streets of Gulgong yesterday. The majority of Ihoso who were opposed to him are not on the roll. There are only 427 electors in the entire Gulgong district. lie is sure to have a majority. The bellman, in convening tho meeting last night, was groaned at. Mr Parkes addressed a meeting of 4,000 persons last night, at Gulgong. A moh of fiO or 70, many of whom had recently arrived from New Zealand, kept up a continuous uproar, in which the shouts of “ O’Farrell,” and “Treason Felony Act,” were wildly mingled from the beginning to the end of his address, which lasted upwards of an hour. A resolution in favour of Mr Parkes was carried by a show of hands of 3 to 1. Alklbourne, Dec. 30. An illicit still has been seized by the police at Nttnawading. January 1. David Masterton and Co., wholesale grocers, are reported to have failed, with liabilities amounting to £45,000. Joseph Thompson (the bookmaker) has suffered severe injuries from gas explosion. Maitland, Jan. 2. A horse harnessed to a baker’s cart ran away to-day. The cart upset, and a boy named Smyth was thrown off, and so seriously injured, that there is but slight hope of his recovery. Munc.EE, Jan. 2. There has been considerable excitement to-day in connection with tho election. The returns which have come to hand are, Parkes, 680 ; O’Connor, 365. Returns from Hargraves, Windeyer, Wool ah, and Merrcndee, have not yet been received, but there can be no doubt now as to the result of the election. Melbourne, Jan. 2. The steamer and lighters have returned from the wreck of the Sussex. A heavy gale is blowing. The loss of the Southern Insurance Company on the cargo of the Sussex is reported to be £SOOO. It is believed that Masterton’s estate will pay twenty shillings in the £ on assignment. Cape news, which has just come to hand, shows that there is continued success in the diamond mines. The Cambrian (s.) alone took away £BO,OOO worth. James D. Doyle, journalist and secretary to the Industrial Schools Commission, is dead. January 4. Tookcy’s shares offering at £ls. The wreck of the Sussex has been sold for £6,800. Adelaide, January 2. Wheat is very firm at ss. Town flour has been sold at £l2 ss. The Adelaide offices were not heavy losers by the loss of the. Sussex.