INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Westport Times, Volume III, Issue 361, 26 September 1868, Page 4

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Echuca, Friday, Sep. 11. The Police Magistrate of Moaraa, Mr George Maunsell, has been stuck up on the road between this town and that place, and subjected to shocking illtreatment by three armed men. Mr Maunsell was robbed, and nearly strangled by the scoundrels. One of the robbers has since been arrested ; and it is to be hoped that the others will soon be taken, as they are well known. Brisbane, Thursday, Sep. 10. The ship Neptune, from Shanghai (?) to Newcastle, was wrecked on an unknown reef, in latitude 12' S. ; the crew took to the boats, and were picked up by the steamer Boomerang, forty miles from Bowen.

The Bo wen and Cleveland Baytelegraph wire is now completed. Friday, 11. The resignation of Mr Lamb, Minister for Lands, is gazetted. Mr Arthur Hodgson takes the Works, and Mr Palmer, Colonial Secretary, the Lands departments.

New South Wales, 14. The Colonial Secretary, Mr Parkes, has, by the last mail, received letters from his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh and Lieutenant Haigh. The Duke's letter is dated from Cowes, where the was stationed as guard-ship to her Majesty. On the 7th instant, a man named Black was killed from the fall of a plank in the scaffolding of the new Police Office. A journal of the voyage of the Duke of Edinburgh is shortly to be published in London. A child, named Elizabeth Woodbridge, was burned to death at South. G-undagai, on the 28th ultimo. On the same day, at a station near Cooma, another child (the daughter of a shepherd) met with her death from a similar accident.

Human remains were found in the Snowy Eiver on the 80th ultimo. The Queen has presented to the Sydney University two handsomely bound copies of the books relating to the early years of the late Prince Conort, and the life of the Royal Family in the Highlands. Both volumes bear the autograph of her Majesty. The books were handed over to the University authorities by the Governor on Tuesday last. A young woman, named Elizabeth Dale, was burned to death near Maitland last Wednesday week. A.s usual, the sad misadventure appears to have been caused by the wearing of crinoline whilst cooking, that garment beino 1 notoriously liable to catch fire when worn near the large wood fires of the bush.

On Thursday last—the Metropolitan Day of the Randwick Spring Meeting—there was great sport, and a large attendance. The Barb beat Tim Whiffler by about a length.