A USTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
SYDNEY, July 16.
Orr has been arrested for complicity m robbery under arms. His sister savagely stoned the police, and his mother exhorted her sons and daughters to take to the bush and sho-jt the police.
The Edgerton bank robber, Capt. Moonlight, recently released from Penbridge, and who has been lecturing on gaols, has formed a fresh gang with three other convicts, and has gone to the North Western District, after a daring attempt to induce the prisoners temporarily employed at the' Williamstown battery to overpower the guards and escape.
The debate m the Assembly on Sir H. Parke's resolutions m favor of reform of the Legislative Council, is proceeding.
Sir Deas Thompson died to-day, •QUEENSLAND, July 16.
It is understood that the Government intend to disfranchise the civil servants, as they are growing a dangerous power.
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Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1103, 19 July 1879, Page 2
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140AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Waikato Times, Volume XIII, Issue 1103, 19 July 1879, Page 2
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