NEW SOUTH WALES.

Southland Times, Issue 3419, 5 June 1879, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

Says the Argus :—"' Lord Augustus Loftus,' our correspondent "wrote -on April 10, ' is at present in London, having arrived, gome days back from St. Petersburg. , He ,wjll leave for New South Wales about the end of May,' wa- San Francisco. His horses and carriages will be sent out" fo Sydney by way of the- Cape. His Lord- , ship has two ''sons, who will* accompany -him to ' Australia. The elder, Mr Henry! 'Loftus, will act as his father's private sec- - re&ry.'- Singular to say, Lord A. Loftus is'a'reiatiye,of his predecessor, Sir Hercules , Eobin'sonj though the' two have never Regarding "the sticking up of the mail coach of which .we were advised by telegram, that the Walgett correspondent of the Maittand "Mercury writes:—" Nowland's five-horse mail-coach, which left, -Walgett- on- Friday- last,- conveying the 'Maitland and Sydney mails, was stuck- up four ,miles from the town. The driver, ( George -Fennell, alleges that upon pulling' up to open four mile gate, an armed i and masked -man came , from behind the^ gate, and seizing the' leading horses, pre-' ■s'ented a revolver at the driver, demanding; the mails. The leaders plunged, and' struck out with their fore feet, thus -free-! ng, ' themselves. The bushranger then; fired,i and the reporfc of < the discharge \ caused the horses to 'bolt .furiously into f .the* bush. / C&her, ahois were discharge^' which shattered the coach panels, bu£tKe, diiver courageously managedto hold the. Horses together; and piloted them back toi "Walgett "safely. There vefe no passengers ( in the coach! The 1 'mails left again at 8 s a.m. Sub^lnspector-j Wright,; with three, CQn.Btable> } assj^e^ by Mr V* M, Jopes's'

!._black-' i: -'tedcK^--'Bundahywenfc-in i .-pursqit;' ; and at 8 pidlock* in theTeveningfbrottghl: :in the bushranger. The police - party worked well, andrßundah's tracking was famous. > - ;. „ [ A HoHpital;f^^clc-pHildfe¥is;abbut^b^ : established^ "^cJexitttirtion' to the ; Premier j asked for Gpvern^t^ar'.'Sirg^Pai-kea said that f the movement had hisefitire'sym- | padiy,'an\l^ie-wotild plafce t\\6 x be- ' fore his colleaglWs'.H ::'' nf '■"•' ';' 'i ! 'l J ' i!^ , I At a m^ti%Wp^OTalists'.tb !p6fipder ! the best means of aKp6sing / of'the t svirplus ! stock of the boleiriy, uf about !f soi-jperson|i 'ati tended. ; ;A t co ( mrrrittee was^fdiraedWmake iinquifieii^^ Ind'pbiain'the cS-bpergtibn of all interested in;l;he iubject;'* Ir '-• :U ' 9a ' : ■''■' Gas is: being dritrbduced into :the railway carnages instead; of. oil lamps as fast as the ; carriages'Caff : be t &ed with' tlie liecessary •. appliances. ■"■■_ ;' n ' i [^'' ' v 'l . ?! ' Ji ' iiil '- -- \ ■ Owing to ;incessant' rain during the week in tlie Guhnedah all the ; : rivers rose, ahdithero.ads were; in'a fearful state. One coach took nearly 17 hbiirs tp; travel 25 miles. ; Tlie, feather is now,,clearjiig.;