AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4552, 7 August 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[BeoeiVed-August fy 12.45 p.m.] Sydney, This day.

Landing of Irish, Informers. It has transpired that tt^e Government have decided to permit the landing of the informers here from the s.s. Pathan, for their own protection. Melbourne, This day. , Arrived, this morning: P. and O. Co.'s Australia, with the Suez mails. , The following further Cup scratching are posted: Aberfoyle, Lord Clifden, Glencoe, Goldfinder, Hesperian, and Falarenda.

The Fathan sailed yesterday for Sydney with the informers on board, accompanied by detective McKay.. Smith continues to deny his identity, and is very violent; it is possible he may be deported to Calcutta. * '1 Melboubne. Yesterday. The two Invinoibles, Kavanagh and Hanlon, have each written a letter declaring that in consequence of the public feeling which has been manifeste>din Melbourne against the witnesses in the Phoenix Park trials, they have no desire to land in the colony, and solicit that they be quietly sent to Calcutta or England. They state that they shipped through the instrumentality of Detective Simmons, of the Dublin police force, and that their passages were engaged by him. According to the most authentic information, the Gorernment intends to re-ship the informers to England. The following hordes have been scratched for the Melbourne .Cup :—Ad Valorem, Buttercup,; County Squire, Duchess of Albany, jack of Clubs, Joan; Mentmore, Merman, Morceau, The Beau, Tootoo,and; the Plunger. % ...••'.

Sydney, Yesterday. Two men/Egan and Scanlon, who stuck up and robbed ,Mr Topham, contractor, for the Nepeau %&terworks, of £1500. on the road between Oamden and Campbelltown, were brought, up for trial to-day, and sentenced to ' twelve years >on the roads. "- '

MacAlister's drapery store, at Cobar, has been destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at £8000, part of which is coy« ered with insurance.