LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 818, 25 June 1879, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[Per Wakatipu at Wellington.]

A curious instance of mismanagement occured m Sydney m connection with the opening of the police paddock to miners. Mr Young, the Warden, had measured the claim, and the men had set to work when an order arrived from the Minister to order the men out, to await an official proclamation of the ground a month later. The order was afterwards rescinded. A*miserable theif named Watson was condemned at the Sydney Police Court *to three months' imprisonment for stealing the butter awaiting the Sunday charitable breakfast for the indigent poor, of which he had frequently par* taken : I Three new morning papers are an* to appear m Sydney on July Ist— the Telegraph and Courier at Id, and the Advertiser at ljd. Mr Angus Maokay, of Sandhurst, Victoria, ia to be the manager of the Telegraph. Mrs Hannah Hall, of Ohio, a member of the Society of Friends, who arrived m Sydney by the San Francisco steamer, is about to hold a meeting to expound her views. I A sensational incident cccured m New South Wales at the execution of an aboriginal. In consequence of the agitation for a commutation of the sentence the sheriff was expecting a reprieve up to the last moment. The criminal was noosed and the hangman Was waiting for the word from the sheriff. Just then the bell at the goal gate rang, and the sheriff thinking it was the messenger with the reprieve uttered an exclamation. The executioner either really thinking or pretending to think that it was the word he was waiting for, pulled the bolt of the drop. The sheriff was terribly scared. It proved, however, that there was no reprieve. In the Supreme Court, at Sydney, Mr Butler, Q. C. , on resuming practice after an absence through illness received the congratulations of the Bench on his recovery. He rose to speak m reply, became pallid, and sank back into his chair dead. The police discovered m a shanty iii the suburbs of Sydney, the residence of a stonemason and his family, a mass of stolen property from the neighborhood. In the Queensland Assembly a resolution was- moved to the effect that £5000 be placed on the estimates as a bonus for the first 500 tons of marketable iron produced from Queensland ore. The resolution was, however, withdrawn m view of the depressed state of the iron trade m other pafts of the world. A man named Brannely, landlord of the Criterion Hotel, Brisbane, has been arrested on a charge of manslaughter, m causing the death of his infant child through negligence aad lack of nourishment. The Melbourne Age is enlarged to 36 columns..