AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.D

Timaru Herald, Volume V, Issue 109, 13 June 1866, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.D

[From the Artpts, May 26.] SYDNEY. Tuesday, May 22. Tully and Lawrence, mail carriers between Obley and Bourke, robbed the mail. They were captured by the police, and had £500 worth of stolen proj>erty m their possession. The barqne Cathay was sold by auction to day for £1250. " L'Afrieaine" was pla}'ed last night for the first time by the opera company. The house was thinly attended. The scenic effects were splendid. [ Trade is steady. Wheat is active. MarteU's pale brandy is scarce,. Arrived. — H.M.S.S. Curacoa, from Melbourne ; Bucton Castle, from London : and James Patterson, from liockhampton. Cleared, for London, ship William Duthie, with 2388 bales of wool, fifty bales of cotton, and 3506 ounces of gold. Sir Charles and Lady Darling, and Captain and Mrs. Tyler, have sailed for London by the ship William Duthie. Wednesday, May 23. Bundemar station was sold by auction to-day, at £3 Ss. Gd. per head for cattle. At auction, the entire cargo of Bourbon sugars, ex St. Philbert was placed— white crystals at £43 2s. Gd. ; finest counters, £39 to £41 12s. 6tl; yellow, £3l> 17s. Gd. ; ration, £29 to £31 10a. Muscatel raisins, BJd. to OJd. ; Jordan almonds, 2s. 2d. ; congou teas, £7 ss. to £8. The sentence passed on Gallagher, convicted of the murder at Armidalo, has been commuted to imprisonment for life. The markets are steady. The wool sales showed no alteration. Arrived. — Crown, from Mauritius, with 6726 bags sugar ; and Cawarra, from Brisbane. Sailed. — William Duthie, for London. The Bessie has cleared for Melbourne, with 409 tons of wheat. Thursday, May 24. The schooner Porpoise has been wrecked at Wagonga; crew saved. Hickcy, an overseer on Baldwin's station, has been murdered by a stockman named Sadler, who found Hickey m bed with his wife. Sadler then committed suicide. To-day has been a general holiday. There was a grand review, and a royal salute was fired. No business has been done. Clarke's gang have robbed Armstrong, a publican, near Araluen* Sailed. — You Yangs, and the Bombay; the latter took 180,054 soys. and 36S4ozs. of gold. Friday, May 25. Mr. Hemming has been appointed Commissioner of Stamps. A deputation from tho Municipal Conference waited on the Premier to-day with a draft of the Amended Municipalities Bill adopted by them. Mr. Martin has promised to endeavour to carry out their suggestion. Mr. Barker, the city coroner, died to-day. The emigrant ship Rockhampton, for Queensland, has been spoken off the coast with fever on board. There have been seventeen deaths, including the surgeon.

Sailed.— Hero, for Melbourne, with a supplementary English mail. Prince tie Conde, who arrived here by the mail steamer Bombay m April last, died at eleven o'clock lost night The Prince had come to Australia for the benefit of his health, which was fast improving, until after a fishing expedition, when he took a very severe cold ; fever followed, and has resulted m death. The j Prince died at Petty's Hotel, where he had been staying for some time. The body of Raymond, who was shot by the prisoners at the Bargo Brush affair, having been exhumed, the wound from which death ensued was examined, and the result proved that he was shot with a bullet from a revolver.