LATE AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1836, 24 June 1874, Page 2

LATE AUSTRALIAN ITEMS.

Madame Arabella Goddard writes that she leaves Singapore for. Australia on the 4th June. ; : . Seiiter, who wad stabbed near Parramatta, has died of his vfounds. Holloway, the murderer, admits his crime. Mr; O. Brown, assistant surveyor at Cooma, died suddenly. Mr i Weaver, police magistrate at Arini? dale, was found dead on his child's grave, with his throat cut. It is supposed that he was insane. The schooner Rachel Cohen has floated off the spit at .Richmond river.Ad tniral Bibourt leaves for Noumea to. investigate the circumstanoes attending the escape of Rochfort and his companions. . ...... An accident occurred at Gympie, by which a man named James Hayes, whilst blasting at Hilton Beef, was so injured that he had one of his legs and both arms amputated. . Cook's overland party has reached the Northern Territory. A sum of L 954 has been collected on behalf of the family of Stapleton, who was killed by the blacks at Barrow's Creek. Mr Samuel Parker, engineer of the Warnambool Shire Council, and formerly of Melbourne, died after a long and painful illness. A Mr Hansen, of Echuca, died rather suddenly. A man named Frank Newburry is supposed to have been drowned while he was attempting to cross the Broken river, Benalla. A private expedition is being fitted put under Hume to search for the relics of Leichardt. Fears are entertained for the safety of the barque Springbok, from Newcastle to. Melbourne. The Flintshire, with the Torres Straitß mail, left Batavia for the Colonies on the sth, with a full cargo, and an increased number of passengers. Mr Newman, the mining manager at Port Darwin, reports that 20 tons of stone from the Western Lease yielded 60oz of gold. At an inquest held on Mrs Taylqr, a publican's wife, at Sydney, who waa supposed to have died suddenly from ordinary causes, a verdict of wilful murder was recorded against her husband, and he was committed for trial. - ; ; From Albury we learn that the first

crashing at the Peep o' Day, Ournie, of 229 tons realised 6570z lldwt gold. The stone was taken from a level at 76ft. The reef is widening and the stone getting richer.

The following are the results of the Adelaide Races : — Autumn Handicap — Sunbeam, 1 ; Enterpe, 2 ; False Alarm, 3. Queen's Hundred — Ace of Trumps, 1; Fugleman, 2 ; Lapidist, 3. Steeplechase —All Fours, 1 ; Darkie, 2 ; Go At, 3. This was a splendid race. Forced Handicap—Sunbeam, 1; Fugleman, 2; My Lady, 3.

A telegram from Brisbane says that a young man named John Fumarty, who stuck up the Tamworth mail, was arrested on the 31st May by the Dalby constables, Smith and M'Mahon, in a shepherd's hut at the Murila Creek on the Cameron Station, 180 miles from Dalby. He confessed the robbery, and inquired if the bags had been recovered. He had a Bplendid horse, and carried a revolver, and had in his pocket two notes, a cheque, two flash notes, a memorandum regarding the stage to the Palmer, and a pocketbook containing a letter addressed to his father at Tenterfield, to be forwarded in case of accident to himself. His father was formerly a tailor at Toowoomba. Two miners named John Bone and Thomas Young, working in a mining claim on the Union Jack Lead, Buninyong, had a narrow escape from death lately. They were suddenly engulfed by the shaft, which was 50ft deep, giving way near the bottom. They managed to save themselves from being crushed by rushing into the corner of the drive where the ground was solid. Thomas Hall, who was on the surface, immediately descended and made an air-hole through so that the buried men could breathe. He then called for help, and both men were eventually rescued without a bruise. Hall was warmly praised for his bravery and presence of mind.

The latest news we have regarding the recent accident in the Duke and Timor mine, at Maryborough, is as follows : — " There are 52fc from the balance shaft now cleared, but as yet there is no sign of the bodies of the buried miners. There is no smell, or other trace. The obstacles to further progress in clearing the drive are almost insurmountable. The drive presents an extraordinary sight. At the end of the 52ft are immense timbers packed like matches in a box right up to the roof. The manager, with great difficulty, removed one of them, and went behind, where he found another layer exactly similar, forming an impregnable barrier. The force which caused such devastation much have been extraordinary. Miners of many years' experience never saw anything like it before. The timbers were of great size and strength, and yet some have been driven by the rush of water, earth, and sand, like reeds before the wind. It is not anticipated that progress can be made in clearing the drive much further, if any distance at all.

The following account of the recent robbery of the Mudgeo mail is given by the Sydney Empire : — "About 2 p.m. on Friday, May 20, the Mudgee mail was stuck-up by two armed men, and robbed. The coach was on its way with the Sydney mails, and had reached a part of the road known by the name of Aaron's Pass — a spot 24 miles from Mudgee, presenting every facility for concealment and the sudden appearance of robbers — when two armed men came into view, and presenting revolvers at the driver of the coach, and at the passengers, gave the usual order to 'bail up. 1 The coach was stopped, and the passengers having been made to alight were searched and robbed of what money and valuables they had upon them, and then the mail-bags were taken. The name of the driver of the coach was Robt. M/Cartney. There were Bix passengers in the coach, and they were robbed of about L 6 only. The robbers were disguised, having sacks over their bodies, with holes in the sacks for their arms to

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come through, and their faces were covered with pieces of cloth like dirty calico. A shot was fired by one of the bushrangers before the mail bags were given up, but it has not transpired at whom the shot was aimed. There were seven mail bags, and they were opened and taken away by the bushrangers The bags were afterwards recovered by the Keen's Swaim police. The mail-bags contained the following mails :— Gulgong for Sydney, Mudgee for Sydney, Mudgee for Bathurat, Mudgee for Wallarwang, Mudgee foi Parramatta, Oudgegong for Ilford, and Cudgegong for Wallarwang. There were no registered letters for any place but Sydney, and very few for Sydney."

The people of Raglan, near Ballarat, have lately been greatly exercised by the occurrence of several mysterious cases i>f incendiarism. The last was aMr Pilcher having his fruit trees cut down, his stack set on fire, and his second son knocked down when attempting to arrest the supposed offender, and afterwards shot at, two of the bullets having been extracted from the door-post of the stable. The police were communicated with, and the information obtained by them was all through this son,, but no trace could be discovered as to who the perpetrator was. The public had almost forgotten the matter, when the police discovered some little discrepancies between the stories told by him and by other members of the family ; suspicion was aroused and at last fell upon the son in question, who was at once arrested ; whereupon he voluntarily confessed that he was the author of the whole of the misfortunes his father had been subject to, and no one had assisted him. When questioned as to his motive, he replied he did not know what made him do it. When arrested at home the father offered a stout resistance to the police, and would not believe his son had any hand in the affair, but rather praised him for his exertions in always being the first to discover when these occurences took place, calling him "a little hero," &c. His age is fifteen years.