SYDNEY.

New Zealand Herald, Volume I, Issue 146, 2 May 1864, Page 3

SYDNEY.

Ai/nioron wo have received our Sydney files to the 23rd ult.. there ia littlo or no news i>f interest to extract. The inquiry into the charges atrainst Giirdiner are atill boinir <*ou(!ucted. Air. Forbes prosecuting on account of the Crown, and Mr. Roberts dethi' prisoner. From the >'i/ihin/ J[crcld \\~c learn the followintr part icular.s respecting the Northern Expedition 'ibout T«> leave Adelaide. The members of tin; >'ottheiii Settlement asM-mi 1» (1 ;ik i n* I'.uriJi-ks on Monday morning", whriv Mr. T. Kinniss, the appointed Government iult['*i»l. iv:id over tin* memorandum of agreement ijeiwven iiiin.-i it and tin- iii'. n, v. hen it wns signed by lii<»><.; piv-i'nt, tiw number oi' twenty. ScvoraL wiio iiml bul)si- the r.ieMt''iMTuiuiu were? absent, ami plart < will U; lillrti up from a tary li.-i ofappheanis. All the ab-.ve parties CXCCpt three, were >woru in ;l.s volunteers under the South Au>inili:ui Volunteer Regulations for a terni of three years. It is expected that all will bo ready on Saturday, that the party will embark on Monday, and that tiil'orU will be made to get the Henry Kills off on tiia! day. The decision of the British Government to continue the deport at ion of felons to Western Australia h;:s called Forth a cry of indignant remonstrance From the Australian Press. The Following telegrams respecting affairs in Western Australia are from the Sydney lit*raid:— There is great destitution in Perth, "NA estem Australia, and the lice labouring elates are endeavouring to realise and leave tor tho other colonics. Western Australia intends to memorialise the Imperial Government acrainst the continuance ot transportation. Six de.-perate convicts have escaped from a road party, near King; George's Sound. A dangerous rock lias been discovered near the Sound, and vofs'.ls are warned to keep one mile and a halt' from the west end of Miehaelis Jsland. A\ e learn also From the same source, that the expedition fitted out to test the truth of the convict Wildman's lale of gold at Camden Harbour left Swan Kiver early in March, ami it will be several s weeks before anything more can be heard of it. The Pcith papers lay very Utile stress on the probability of "NV Human's story proving true. Tho Gazette remarks:— ** The expedition will yield lar more important usults than the prospect of the discovery of gold ; by the examination of the country trom Roebuck Uay to the I)e Grey Kiver, thus intcreej ting all the rivers flowing from tho interior along this extensive and (a portion of it) nnkno.vn line ot* eunntrv.