AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4457, 18 April 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Received April 18th, 1.30 p.m ]

The Colonial Bank Bobbery. < Melbouene, This day,

Further particulars regarding the robbery at the Colonial Bank of Australasia, Brunswick show that the sum of £715, was stolen, not £500, as was at first supposed. The manager of the branch has been suspended, pending an enquiry into the affair.

v. Lattnceston, This day. The Epping 1 fForest Outrages.

No confirmation has been obtained of a report current yesterday of further outrages in the Epping Forest.

Meibottbne, This day.

The Tarawera, which left yesterday for the Bluff, took oh board at the Heads, the English mails, brought by the P. and O. steamship Bosetta.

Melbourne, Yesterday. iThe death is ahounced of H. F. G-urner, Crown Solicitor, from apoplexy.

: Adelaide, Yesterday. Arrived, this morning: The Orient Company's steamship Orient, frem Ply* mouth, March,loth. \ ' ; Arrived, this evening: The P. &O. Company's steamship Rossetta, with the ins ward mails via Suez and Brindisi, dated London March 9. Sailed, this afternoon : The Union Company's steamship Tarawera, for the Bluff.

The Colonial Bank of Australasia- at Brunkswick, two and a-half miles from the city, was robbed to-day of £600. The theft was committed during office hours. The manager was momentarily absent, and upon his return, found that a drawer had been unlocked, and the money abstracted. It ia believed that the thief is a youth, but he has not, up to the present time, been arrested. *

Launceston, Tuesday,

It is reported that further attacks have been made upon settlers in the neighbourhood of Epping Forest, but the statements require confirmation. The details which have transpired during the trial of the youths Ogden and Davis, for murders committed last week, fully confirm the statements regarding the atrocity with which the cold-blooded crimes were committed.