SYDNEY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXIV, Issue 3511, 16 October 1868, Page 4

SYDNEY.

(Prom thi 3rd to the 10th October. ) A mUiiu>iertb»u<lins{ exinti between the municipality of Waver ley and the Mayor of Sydney with reference to the city water reserve in that suburb, which has led to aa open frupture between the VVaverley people and the officers of the City Corporation. . The programme of the New South Walei Rifle Association baa been published. It provides for seventeen matches. Some scoundrel lately cut the leg of a cow at Mount Keira, to such an extent that it wa» only hanging by a piece of the skin. On Monday, the 2 lot ultimo, a terrific hailstorm visited Goon amble. It c*me between 5 and 6 p.m., and lasted some ten minutes. The stones were about the size of pullets 1 eggs, and, after the «torm was over, lay upon the ground two inche* deep. Many were not dissolved by noon on th« following day. The correspondent of the Dubbo Dispatch writes : — " The dead body of a nun named John Gallagher was found in the river Darliog, at Sourke, on the 3rd. A magi'terial inquiry was held, and a verdict of drowned while in a state of delirium tremens was returned." Some excitement has been produced in Sydney, by reports that the South Sea Islaad native* are being enticed away from their homas, to work upon the plantations in Queensland. The reported decline in wool in the London market has had a depressing effect upon the value of station property. Money is plentiful, discount rates are unaltered. Interent on deposits has been slightly reduced. Exchange on London has been l educed to £ per oent. for 60 days' bills. The buying rate is 1 p^r oent. discount. On the Ist instant, the oldest hotel in Albury (the Hume Inn) wa« destroyed by fire. At the Armidale Circuit Court, on the sth, Charles Combo, an aboriginal, was charged with the murder of another aboriginal, found guilty, and sentenced to death.

On the 3rd, at Waratah, Amttin ran 10 milts ia one hour aud a little over one minute. The dead body of a man named John Gallagher was found in the river Darling, at Bourke, on the 3rd. A deputation of c'ergymen, representing all religious denominations, waited on the Minister for Works on the 3rd instant, requesting that the Government would prohibit the running of the Sunday afternoon funeral train, m] it was being used as au excursion, train. Mr. Guilfoyle, during his recent botanical excurnion in the Fiji Tilands, on the last cruise of H.M.s. • Challenger,' collected a large number of new and ' rare plants. William Cutter, alias Moran, has been committed for trial by the Bnrrangong Bench for the murder of a man (name unknown) at the Ten-Mile diggings, in 1867. Discussion still continues as to the site of the Prince Alfred Memorial Hospital. On the 6th instant, Mr. Mort's new stores were opened. Preserved meats and native wines were tested. The Armidale Express reports that a man named Hugh Patterson was travelling to Armidale on the Graf ton line lately, with bin wife and six children. At the Snowy, the dray cipsized, and killed David, aged nearly six years, and hurting more or less the other members of the family. The Hunter Eiver Mew Steam Navigation Company hare authorise! the direotors to borrow £25,000, for a steamship suitable for the Hunter Biver trade.