LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 148, 30 March 1872, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

A Clerk named Purdis, in the employment of Mr Holdsworth, ironmonger, was accidentally shot dead by a companion, while returning from a shooting excursion. —A woman, bitten by a snake at Adelaide, was conveyed to the hospitel, where she recovered through the administration of spirits internally. The breach of promise case, in which Miss Maunsell, daughter of a Melbourne solicitor, sued Mr Cassius, a merchant, of New Zealand, has resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, with £350 damages.—The bushranger who robbed the Tambaroora mail has been captured.—There is great excitement in Sydney about the missing portion of the New Guinea expedition. Most of its members belong to private families in Sydney. —The Government has received a message via Brisbane from Mr Todd, superintendent of South Australian telegraphic business. Mr Todd states that a horse express between the Northern and the Southern ends of the completed lines would shortly be established. The operators in the Adelaide office'can now speak with the office at the northern end of the central section of the Port Darwin line.

Sydney.— March 20: The police have traced the murderer of the man Bridges, formerly wardroom steward of the Rosario. They followed the career of Bridges from the time he left the ship until lie was engaged in a situation at Paramatta, where the body was found. A butcher named Nicholls, and a youth named Lester, aged 19, have been arrested on suspicion. Both had been previously in gaol. The latter had in liis possession a watch formerly belonging to a man named Walker, who has bean missing for some time. Subsequently Walker's body lias been found. It is believed that a scheme of systematic murder has been discovered. Nicholls exhibits much bravado. Lester appears terror-stricken, and will probably turn informer.