INTERCOLONIAL.

Southland Times, Issue 3568, 27 November 1879, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

(BY ELECTBIC TELBGBAPH.)

! , The following summary of Intercolonial news was brought by the Claud Hamilton, which arrived atthe Bluff last evening:— NEW SOUTH WALES. ; A desperate encounter has .occurred with bushrangers. A gang -of six men, headed by a man claiming to be the notorious Captain Moonlight, stuck-up the Wantabadgery station, 25 miles east of Wagga Wagga, early on a Sunday v morning. Nineteen hands were bailed'up for ten hours. The manager at first proved intractable, but after receiving several kicks he apologised on his knees, and was sent on to the roof of the building to keep watch.' When the mail boy arrived the mail bag was seized, but Alexander McDonald, the boy, escaped and brought the news to Wagga Wagga. Four troopers left in pursuit, arriving at daybreak on Monday. The bushrangers were atthe station homestead, and one came out and '• refused to surrender, whereupon the police fiiied. Others of the gang attacked the police, and a hot contest ensued, and lasted over two hours. The marauders approached the police in a semicircle, compelling to them to .retire to a neighboring station, leaving their horses behind. They were subsequently reinforced by five police from Grundagai, and started in pursuit of the bushrangers, overtaking'them about two miles from tho station. Here another serious engagement followed , and the fight lasted an hour, and was witnessed by a large number of people x who had posted themselves on the neighboring hills. One bushranger being shot dead by Constable Bowen, the rest took shelter, and then Bewen succeeded in shooting another dead, being himself seriously wounded in the neck. A third bushranger was wounded in the arm; two others surrendered, and the remaining one escaped. The gang also stuck np a store -ai Clarendon, and robbed the mail. Two constables had their horses shot, under . them, and Mr Beveridge, a squatter, and- ., two assistants were stack up~by the 6**°s, *" " - '. -\ .. A"* >*" 0 * -^-,-v - V

when trying- to join the police,- and Beveridge was compelled to shoot hia valuable horse. They were then courtmartialled by the gang, and allowed five minutes to live. Fortunately the attackin^ force of police 'arrived '^before the sentence was executed. • A Inan 'cWliife himself Moonlight, one of the prisoners, is uninjured. " ' ,-rn.'^— * By great exertions the /Exhibition art gallery was' opened on November 40fh. The display of pictures was varied and excellent, proving highly attractive. The Exhibition has been visited by over three hundred thousand people l %ince: it was opened, and the receipts are over L 17.000. A meeting*. of, v thousand,- Ratholics unanimously cayi«d resolutions ' ',to, ,the effect' that Sir Henry Parke's Ediicatibfa Bill was inimical to Roman| Catholics, and pledging to ec-operate "to oppose the measure." " , - v 1 Thc*go-as-you-iike pedestrian match y«| won by~ Edwards," who' walked over 153 miles,; '."Wil^ms, a Lpnddn "pedestrian, was second. .-, . v . i "..-}„.' X ...w A girl named Schultz, aged 17, deliber. ately took t poison imher lover's presence, and died within two hours. The rash act •wasindiced.by a slight quarrel. .... rj The Pericles, with five hundred immigrants,' f has been quarantined in consequence of typhoid fever, i -Ten (deaths occurred during the voyage: ' The shipment of frozen meat, per Strathleven, is nearly complete. She takes 70 bollocks, 300 sheep, none of them .from Melbourne. ' - A bloody war is ranging in Samoa j the Royalists are 'successful. Several women KaVe-'lxieh shot '■ K member bf the Alelbourne bar is likely to get into trouble with the English Consul for inciting the natives to war. " It having been alleged that the children at the . Bandwick Asylum,, were being cruelly treated', the Assembly appointed a select committee to enquire into the case, and*. it is stated that .excessive flogging }ias been the rule for some time.; , . <iJL