SYDNEY.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 647, 11 March 1879, Page 2

SYDNEY.

February 28. There are further particulars of the loss of the brig Raymond. She" left Newcastle on February 14, commanded by Captain Evans, bound for New Zealand, with a cargo of coal. During a heavy gale on the 15 th the sails were blown from the boltropes. The staysails was then Bet to keep the vessel before the wind. At daylight the following morning the fore hatch was stove in. All hands were kept constantly employed at the pumps. Two anchors and a quantity of cable were let go to lighten the ship forward. Owing to the heavy sea running the decks were constantly full of water, which rapidly gained on the pumps. Cape Hawke was sighted at 4 a.m. on thy 14th. The crew were then greatly exhausted with their exertions, the vessel was quite unmanagable, and was gradually settling down. She was therefore beached three miles North of the Heads. In landing, one boat was capsized and three of the crew were drowned — the first mate, J. C. Lemoignan, and seamen James Ferguson and John Sawers. The body of one of the seamen has recovered and was buried on the beach. A curious discovery was made on board the nautical school-ship Vernon, on the 22nd instant, of the assumption of male disguise by a girl who had worn it for eight • years. She had been arrested as James Gould, at Lambing Flat, as a vagrant. On conviction she was sent to the Vernon for a term of years. When on board the Vernon she was handed over to the boatswain for the usual routine of bathing, hairdressing, and other purification. A scene then occurred. James Gould refused to strip, blushing and crying to the amusement of the boys around. The boatswain appealed to the captain, and it was only when Captain Neitensein ordered her to be stripped for punishment that she confessed her sex. Her .mother, she said, died at Lambing Flat, eight years before, and at her death-bed the girl was sworn always to wear boy's clothes. This she had done obtaining a precarious livelihood about the diggings 'until arrested. The girl knows no name but " Jem," She is interesting, and of pleasant appearance, and seems through all, to have preserved purity of mind. She was sent to the Billera Girl's Industrial School. \ A man was found dead at Hamilton on the night of the 22d February, with his brains blown out by a revolver, which was in his hand. At the inquest the deceased was recognised as Thomas Anthony, and the verdict was that of suicide while of unsound mind. Amongst the effects found upon him was a Commercial Bank receipt for £176, £48 in notes, and a will bequeathing the property to his brother Herbert, of Stawell, Victoria. The unveiling of the statue of Captain Cook was completed on the 25th February. The ceremony was altogether worthy of the occasion. The scene was most magnificent. The city was decorated with flagß, and there was a procession composed of the whole strength of the naval, military, and volunteer forces, and large bodies of the friendly societies, which wended its way through the streets, the windows and balconies being crowded with spectators. Arrived at the ground, the members of the friendly societies marched into a portion of Hyde Park fenced off for them on the northern side, while the rest of the procession, wearing uniform, defiled into the enclosure on the southern side. The stands were crowded. The choir was composed principally of children, who were in front of a canopy erected for the Governor and Lady Robinson and other distinguished personages. There were about 80,000 people present. At halfpast four the Governor arrived, and was much cheered. He spoke for half-an-hour, principally about the history of Captain Cook. At the close of his speech the statue was unveiled amid much cheering. A gang of four men, named Thomas Gorman, Charles Jones, William Kay, and William Homsby, stuck up Hatfield's store and public house, 60 miles from Ballyrand, on the night of the 21st. They were armed with four revolvers, and a revolving rifle and gun. They ordered the people to bail up, saying they were the Kellp. They took goods

and cash to the Value of £50, and two horses, saddles And bridles, from the District Court bailiff. They fired twice at the v stocein«n, Day, who escaped to Ballyrand, and kept all the rest prisoners for four hours. They then left, saying they would serve Balranald the same as Jerelderie was served. Early on Saturday they stuck up a hawker named Freedman, near Till-till and took £50 from him, two rings'off his fingers,' and' the jewellry arid goods from the wagon. They then stuck up Till-till, station/ and I took arms, rations, saddles, and six fresh ■_. horses belonging to the station. They refused the station-hands their horses. They marched all the hands, numbering twenty-five, to the manager's ; house, where they kept all bailed up. They stuck up Wiltshire's tank-sinkers'' camp, - at Till-till, and were last heard of going •' in the direction of Woolpagarie. The police are in hotpursuit. The townspeople of Balranald are in great excitement, only two regular police and one special constable being left there. The gang are well mounted, but they are "all novices, and very young, except Gorman, '' who is the leader. : ' r "' N.eilson, of Canterbury, is reported to nave purchased Lone Hand, the famous steeplechaser. The corvette Dante has' arrived at Melbourne. She proceeds to Sydney shortly asthe Wolverine and the Emerald -. escort Sir Hercules Robinson to New Zealand. ': . ; Several of the Kelly sympathisers, arrested eight weeks since, have been dischatged, as the police were unable, owing to the Kelly scare, to bring for* ward witnesses. Eight of the men are still remanded. ; : ( <• A hairdresser named Moreil has been committed for trial for alleged embracery in connection with 1 David Henry's? trial. ; : : . .-r The certificate of Capt. M'Petrie has" been suspended for six months ior losing the Kerangie. The Ronga stud of thoroughbred - horses wer» sold ■ without for 1910 guineas. ..-•.. ■ . • ; Last year 121 mining, accidents oc« curred in Victoria, 60 person* were, killed, and 100 injured. „ ._ . . >._ - SYDNEY. All the Hardfield bushrangers were promptly captured by the New South police. Troopers Bereford, Day, and - Power pursued them 180 iniles/. Several shots were exchanged, and Trooper Power was wounded. TEV- ifoUrscoundrels then surrendered. The 1 other bushrangers were captured in thd' Dubbo district. ; BRISBANE. February 28. A Chinaman hanged himself with his pigtail at Cooktown, while in the lock-up on the 22nd inst. .A : ' Early in the month five escaped iprisoners from new Caledonia arrived at Mackay viaßowen, per Northern Bteamery having been . forwarded by Inspector Armstrong. It appears that they escapedfrom the east coast near Hunchback mountain at. 2 o'clock on the morning of the 12th of January, in a boat that was floating near the shore: ' ' Though there were gend'armes about they got safely away under sail, provided with; only scant clothing, 150. biscuits, and 5 gallons of water. When they were ten. days out they Bpoke a vessel, 'andr thinking they were : chased they altered their course and passed the vessel. They were safely- landed at.Bowen on the 30th inst., having been nineteen days at sea, without food for the last two days. Their intention was to proceed to Sydney but could not make' that port as they had no compass. Upon landing at Bowen, half starved, they were taken care of in the immigration depot. - ....