NEW SOUTH WALES.

Hawke's Bay Weekly Times, Volume 1, Issue 47, 25 November 1867, Page 294

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Our latest dates are up to the sth in* staut. A vote of want of confidence in the Ministry, moved by Mr Robertson, had, after four days’ debate in the Legislative Assembly, been negatived by 31 to 21. \

The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church was in session.' An inquiry, lasting over five days, into the causes' of 'the late fire in George-street, has been held, and resulted' in the following verdict being returned by the jury :—“We find that on the 22nd day of October, 1867, in the. said city of, Sydney, in the colony aforesaid, a certain person or persons, to the jurors aforesaid unknown, feloniously, unlawfully, and maliciously did set fire to the said premises, recently occupied by the said Abraham Abrahams, , and situate in Georgestreet, in the; said city and colony aforesaid.”

The contest for the championship of New .South Wales between William Hickey, of Newcastle, and Richard Green, of Sydney—the former staking <£l2o to the latter’s £loo—took place on the 26th ultimo, and resulted in Hickey finishing about five boats’ lengths ahead of his opponent. The fairness of the race is disputed, but no imputation is thrown upon Hickey. The stakes have, however, been paid over. A fresh match is arranged between the men..

Mason,-the mate of Thunderbolt, has been sentenced to three years’ imprisonment for bushranging. Sir John and Lady Young have b.een so nmch pressed by all classes of the community to stay and receive the Duke of Edinburgh, that they have determined to postpone their departure till the 24th December.

A telegram from Maryborough says that the only rich ground found yet is in the Prospector’s Gully. A reef has been discovered, and some of the specimens of quartz are very good. There has been a rush to a creek half-a-mile from the Prospector’s gullypayable claims were discovered, but not generally. The Murrumbidgee steamer sank on the 31sfc October five miles below Hay. In turning a sharp bend she canted, and rapidly filled ; there was a strong current at the time. She had on board 240 bales of wool. A heavy flood is coming down.

The foundation stone of the new Telegraph Office at Hay was laid by Mr Charles Kraigen, station-master, on the 31st November. A large number of influential gentlemen of the town were present.