The Reedy Creek Bank Robbery.— Arrest of the Manager.
Walsh Sentenced to Death South Australian Revenue Commercial Intelligence. [Received Oot. 2, at 1.45 p.m.! LONDON, Sept. 30. The wool sale today was quiet j 6,300 bales were catalogued. The Money and Colonial Produce Markets are unchanged. Michael Walsh, recently found guilty of an agrarian murder in Ireland, has been sentenced to death. "MELBOURNE. Oct. 2. William. Hill, manager of tho Colonial Bank of Australasia at Reedy Creek, has been arreßted, and charged with the robbery which was committed at that branch on August 22 last. ADELAIDE, Oct. 2. The revenue of South Australia for the September quarter amounted to £525,000, a decrease of £85,250 as compared with tho corresponding period of 1881. The decrease is mainly due to a falling off in the land revenue.
AUCKLAND, Oct. 2. The Auckland teum to play againit Sydney has been finally selected hr follows :— Webster (back), Byan and Wood (r.hreequarter hocks), Whiteside, Sims, nod Warbrick (hnlf-baokf), Arneil, Carter, Clayton, Croxton, Birsdon, Henderson, Bigga, M'Kuy, O'Connor (forwards). This team is nut so strong aa tho last. The Waikato Time* says: — "A gentleman (whoao name wo have been requestfd to withhold) who has for some time past been aware of the prf>6crio of alluvial gold in the Tnupo or Tuhua cqunty, i« at present negotiating with the Government, by way of ascertaining what support they »ro willing to lend iii securing and wojjcing the new discovery. The gentleman to whom we rofor has been prospeofcing with Natives for sovcral months rJaafc, and wo have every reason to believe that his expedition has not bpen f ruitlo?s, but instead has been attended with greut success." NAPIKII, Oct. 2. Tho Cuetoms* return for lait quarter nro £10-58f5, an increase on thn corresponding quarter oi ]»eti year of £1061. B2BT duty for tho September month, £187. The Syenoy footballers landed on Saturday, and were entertained at dinner at the Criterion Hotrl by the* locul football club The Acclimatisation Society has fixed Iho prioe of young trout at £10 per 1000, for liberation only within tho provincial district. Vital statistics for September: -Marriages, 10 j deaths, 35: birth r, 37. NKVV PLYMOUTH, Oct. 2. The following ure tho vital statistics for the Borough of New Plymouth f or September :—> 23 bit the, 6 mu'riagrs, and 2 deaths. WELLING JON, Oct. 2. Tho Supremo Court criminal session opened this morning. There was a light calendar. Truo bills wt.ro found in all cases. Farrow, , fcr larceny, was pontencert to nino months' imprisonment. The case of Warnford, charged with injuring grape vinos, is proceeding. IHJNRDIN, Oct. 2. His Honor Judgo Williams, in his churge on opening tho Supremo Court, dwelt exhaustively on tho P-ipukiio murder case. No other caeca on the calendar wore touohed upon. The folio wing sentences weropaesoti : — Edwin Murlovr, clerk in the Union Company, for embezzlornont, throo years. William Patrick Sluirkey, uged 16, horse scouting, six months. Isabella Young, maliciously wounding, sis moiitln.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 4505, 2 October 1882, Page 3
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494The Reedy Creek Bank Robbery.—Arrest of the Manager. Star (Christchurch), Issue 4505, 2 October 1882, Page 3
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