NEW SOUTH WALES.

New Zealander, Volume XIV, Issue 1284, 7 August 1858, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

The Venerable Archdeacon Cowper died on the morning of the 6th July, in his 80th year. Ihe Herald, remarks :—“The firat colonial chaplain, has, within the last few days, p»<sed from this world to a better one; having nearly reaibed his eightieth year. Hia life hat been one of great usefulness, and the respect in which he was borne by men of all ranks and all shades of opinion, was proportionately great. In testimony of this respect, it has been decided that there shall be no parliamentary sitting this week.*' A dreadful railway accident had occurred. The Herald publishes the following as a supplement to its Saturday’s publication : Fatal Railwav Accidbmt, —Two L ves Lost. Herald office, Saturday, 2 p.m. We have been fovoured by the Hon. John Robertson, Esq., the Secretary for Land and Public Works, with the following particularsin reference to this melancholy event ; On the arrival of the first op-trsin (that should have reached Sydney at ten o’clock this morning) at Haslara'a creek, the carriage* ran off the line, and, after proceeding about three hundred yards, the horse box and three carriages fell over the bank. The embankment here ia about four feet high. The carriages, however, did not reach the bottom, being sustained by those above, to which they wsre fastened. Three other carriages were throwo off the line. The engine and some of the carriages immediately came on to Sydney, to bring the melancholy intelligence, and also to secure assistance for the wounded. They returned about ten o'clock, \vith>everal medical men, and everything they thought they would he likely to require They also took a number of men to render every possible assistance. They reached the ground about half-past ten o’clock, within a few minutes after the arrival of the train, the return train, containing the Hon Secretary for Lands and Public Works (Mr. Robertson), Dr. Douglas*, M.L.C., Mr. Nealde, the traffic manager, who did all they could under the circumstances. The wounded had already been taken from the carriages, and the medical men >nd all that was requisite. Another special train came at half-past eleven, bringing the Hon. and learned Attorney-General, Captain Martindale, Mr. Wetton, and Mr. Dailey, M.L.A. Capta n Martindale went over the ground to see what was the •ause of the accident. After an examination, he furnished the following official letter “ Sir,—l have the honour to report that a serious accident has occurred on the Great Southern Railway this morning. “ The carriages appear to have left the line at Haslam'a Creek bridge, and, after running about three hundred yards, the horse box and three carriages fell over the bank, aod three others were thrown off the line. “ It is with deep regret thst I have to add that two persons have been killed ; two other persons seriously wounded, and three, more or less wounded. “ The names of those killed are George Want, Esq., of Paramatta, and Mrs. Hackett, of Pennant Hills road, and a young man and bis sister named Worthwell or Northwell. Several other persons are slightly bruised or shaken, and among them J. H. Atkinson, Esq- “ lam at present inquiring into the cause of the accident, with the engineer-in-chiol and the traffic manager. “ J have, etc., “ H. B Marlindalb. To the Hon. Secretary Lands and Public Works.

New Race of Aboriginals.—Gold Discovert. — Some time since a paragraph appeared in the Empire, elative to the discovery, in the far interior, of a new race of black*, “ who bad no hair on the top of their beads, in the place where the wool ought 10 grow. The account of this most extraordinary arrangement has been corroborated by an ey*-witness —a Mr. 1 horopson, who is at present residing at Mr. VVbittaLers’s, in East Maitland-who has juat arrived from the vicinity where these funny aboriginals ruralise. They are of a copper colour, and are tall and athletic, much superior in every respect to their darker-skinned brethern. The women are also said to have more claims to beauty. They, however, are also deficient of what is getl'-rally acknow* ledged to be “ the glory of a woman.” Mr Thompson, it appears, was at camp on the Upper Balonne, with others, on the ground hitherto untrodden by a white man, when he was surprised by a visit from these bald* pated copper-coloured being*. They appeared to have friendly intentions, and as nothing was noticed in their conduct of an aggressive nature, a conversation by signs and nods ensued. Afters while a sovereign was shown to them, when one of them, picking up a stone, pointed with his finger to the far west, and intimated that stones of a similar description to the sovereign were to be picked up on the ground, in masses as large as the stone h* held. The place was understood to be some hundred miles further in the interior, but they sigmied their intention of bringing some of these stones at their next visit. Mr. Thompson intends to return again to the Balonne and to await their arrival. If this story be true, the ago of wonders truly has not ceased. The incredulous may, by a visit to Mr. Whittaker • hear the particulars as wo have described them.— Maitland Mercury, July 3.