SYDNEY.

Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXVI, Issue 3972, 16 May 1870, Page 6

SYDNEY.

May 7 : The Countess of Behnore was, on Thnrsday, May 5, delivered of a son, who is heir-apparent to the Earldom of Belmorc: the present Earl is the fourth of that nam£. The Government are Jlikely to consent to reduce the sea pd'stage to Victoria to 3d. The 'Kate Kearney,' l fi'om Western ■ 'Australia, has' been quarantined. She has had thrf-e fatal cases of 'smallpox. rh'e captain and others are now ill on board. The port.ons of wreck lepoi feed as having been seen at Bulli have been identified as belonging io the schooner ' Hannah," from Clarence River. All hands are supposed to have perished. The prorogation took place on May 5, and tho usual Ministerial dinner was given on May 3. The bushranger Thunderbolt has resumed his depredations in the northern district. Parliament will be summoned for the despatch of bxisiness in the second week in August. On the 34th ultimo, two prisoners named Stokes and Buckley made a desperate, but unsuccessful, attempt to escape from the gaol at Walgett. The river steamers on the Murray are now in active operation, bearing away the accumulated produce of the adjai cent districts. On May 2, a mining engineer, named Channon, of Keut-terrace, Newton, committed suicide with a revolve!*, in the Domain, whilst labouring under an attack ef mental derangement. Employment on the railway, as labourers, has been given by the Government to several parties unemployed, but the work has not suited all those who have tried their hands at it. The Castlemaine Representative report's that an infant, apparently four days old, was found a« the bottom of a hole 14 feet deep, near Mr. Leviny's residenoe. A man took the poor little>ffchiiig out of the shaft. Ks~slothes were saturated with \»4tei7"aiid to all appearance it had been in the K&le all night. A cloth was twisted round its neck, apparently with the intention to strangle it ; but in spite of the child's tender age, and the exposure to which it had been subjected, it was still alive.