INTERCOLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume II, Issue 230, 1 October 1867, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW SOUTH WALES. The Criminal Sessions commenced on the 9th September. Fergusson, late a clerk in the Government service, pleaded 1 guilty ' of embezzlement, and was sentenced to a month's imprisonment. In the case of Kingsmill, the bank clerk, insanity was pleaded as a defence, and he was acquitted. James Griffin, charged with the murder of John Carroll at Jinden, last January, and who was then acquitted on that indictment, was tried on the 17th September for the murder of Patrick Kennagh, found guilty, and sentenced to death. The Horticultural Society's Show has been postponed till the arrival of Prince Alfred. Great floods have occurred in the Hawkesbury district. The South Creek murder case has been recommenced. The Government intends to stop the assisted immigration system and close the department by the end of the year. The Estimates have been introduced. It is purposed to expend £1,587,105 from the consolidated revenue, and £309,507 from the loans account. The special appropriations amount to £531,811; and the Supplementary Estimates for the present year to £93,275. Mason, Thunderbolt's mate, has been captured near Taraworth, and committed for trial. Ten hours of snow occurred at Goulburn on the 7th September. Last month's yield of gold was the largest of the year. The Sydney Morning Herald states that no steps have yet been taken by the Executive Council of New South Wales with reference to the disposal of the prisoner Louis Bertrand since the arrival of the documents from England relative to his case ; but that, in view of the recommendation contained in the judgment of the Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council on the appeal, it is not at all likely that the extreme penalty of the law will be carried into effect. VICTORIA. The Anglesea, for London, took 52,296 ounces of gold. Bellemy has been committed for trial for poisoning his wife. It is reported that the Council will pass the Appropriation Bill, but accompanied with a strong protest, which it is supposed will induce the Governor to reserve it for ihe Queen's assent. Another report is afloat to the effect that the Opposition intend making a firm stand, and will not pass it. An influential deputation has waited on the Chief Secretary on the subject of intercolonial railway communication. Mr M'Culloch expressed his hope that the bill enabling the Government to borrow the money would pass immediately.. The executive committee of the Wesleyan College have refused to accept the resignation of Mr Waugh. It ia decided to hold a regatta at Port Phillip during the stay of Prince Alfred. A telegram in the Melbourne Herald, dated September 14th gives the, following details of the discovery of the remains of the three poor children lately lost in the eighborhopd of Daylesford: — Last nighf

a pair of boots were fouud, thought to be those belonging to the eldest of the lost children — William Graham. One of the boots, which contained a foot complete, was brought in by a man, Michael M'Kay, employed at the Musk Creek Saw Mills, owned by Messrs Riddle and Tredemick, to a place about a mile beyond the mills. A vigorous search was commenced early this morning by Messrs J. H. Wheeler, M.L.A, W. S. Kiddle, Michael M'Kay, David Bryan, and Ninian Bryan. At half-past nine they came upon a portion of the clothes thought to belong to the eldest boy, and after further search the two younger children were found in the hollow of a tree close by. A portion of the bones and the clothes of William Graham, the eldest boy, were found across a log. The corpses of the two other children were in a crouching attitude. The children were lost or last heard of at Table Hill; but information subsequently showed that at somewhere about Specimen Hill they had been seen (this last was doubted, but the result corroborates its truthfulness); and from where the remains were found, it is clear they must have wandered almost in a half circle from where they lost themselves to where found, and, singularly enough, outside of the ground more especially worked over by the search party.