INTERCOLONIAL,

Otago Witness, Issue 1490, 5 June 1880, Page 19

INTERCOLONIAL,

(JReuter's Special.)

Melboukne, June 2nd. A party of police which left Benalla yesterday has arrived at Beechworth, but has seen nothing of the Kellys.

The debate on the Reform Bill in the Legislative Assembly still continues. Sydney, June 2nd. News has been received, via the Solomon Islands, that the foreign immigrants for New Ireland are in great distress and suffering from fever and ague, from which four deaths have already resulted. Forty-five of the party have removed to Duke of York Island. Six weeks after the party landed on New Ireland only three were capable of exertion. The rest were prostrated with fever and severe ulcers peculiar to the island. They possessed no quinine with which to allay their sufferings. Their supplies of provisions, too, were quite insufficient, the Ohaudernagnore having sailed suddenly after a dispute as to who should be leader of the party on shore, and left them without sufficient food.

Arrived : Arawata, s. s. , from Auckland.

The Bank of Sydney at Juirindi (?) has been robbed by four armed men, who were masked. The manager of the Bank was engaged feeding his horses at 11 p.m. when he was suddenly bailed up and compelled to open the safe, from which £488 in gold was taken. The manager's wife iind sister were covered by revolvers while the money was being taken. The robbers departed at 31 o'clock in the morning. The clerk was absent 011 leave, and the police were engaged on country duty.