NEW SOUTH WALES.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 55, 8 May 1866, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

April 25. There were heavy arrivals of breadstuff's to-day. The Fanny Nicholson and Van Artvelde, from Chili, brought 1,050 tons ; and the Beliisima, from California, 1,130 tons of wheat, 220 tons of barley, and 800 bags of ■oats. The Barwon's owners offer £250 more reward for the discovery of the missing gold, and the Governmento ffer a free pardon to any accomplice in the Barwon gold robbery case who will turn approver ; and they have increased the reward for the apprehension of the robbers to £500. The New South Wales Insurance Company have declared a seven and a half per cent, dividend for the half-year. The United Insurance and Sydney Insurance Company's balance sheets showed a loss. No dividend was declared. The Bank of New South Wales has declared a dividend of fifteen per cent, and a bonus of five per cent. — equal to twenty per cent, per annum. The losses sustained during the past halfyear by the New South Wales Assurance Company, are unprecedented in the history of the company. A clerk in the employment of Messrs. Montefiore and Josephs, who was receiving a salary of £700 a year, has absconded to California, via Newcastle. His defalcations, so far as are at present known, are said to amount to £900. • Mr. Charles Martyn, the well-know horse aud stock auctioneer, Pitt and Castlereagh streets, died to-day. It is raining now, and there is every probability of its continuance. The racehorse Lord of the Hills bolted, and killed himself on the racecourse to-day. April 26. A meeting was held, last night, of Fenian sympathisers, aud fifty pounds subscribed for the families of. the" Irish State prisoners. Another meeting is advertised for to-night.