NEW SOUTH WALES.

West Coast Times, Issue 350, 6 November 1866, Page 3

NEW SOUTH WALES.

THE SUSSEX STREET -MURDER (prom the empire oct. 23.) . On last Sunday night the police were successful in finding the rest of the remains of the body of the unfortunate woman lntely murdered in Sussex street. It appears that about the time the murder is snpposeed to have been committed the man Scott got a boy about sixteen or seventeen years of age" to help him to carrry away a box from the house in Sussex street, where the murder is supposed to have been committed. When the boy went into the house for the box he could not find it for some time, it being night, and there was no candle in the house. At the time he pprceived a very bad smell in the room in which the box was, and when he found that the smell come from the box, be said to Scott, " What have yougotbere?" (moaning the box). Scott replied, "Oh ! it's only some bad beef I'm carrying away." They proceeded along Sussex street until they came as far as the corner of Goulburn street, when the boy became so impressed that it was a human body that was in the box that he would not carry it any further. He then put down the box, and made an excuse, that it was too heavy for him, and went away, and told another boy that he was sure that he had been carrying a dead human body. Scott then went and got another boy, who helped him to carry the box further, till they came to the corner of Bathurst street. Here the boy said he would go no further, and put down the box on the ground. Near where he left the box at the corner of Bathurst street, there is an old yard, partly fenced in. Prisoner got the boy to help him with the box into the yard beside the fence. The boy did so, and the two of them then went in search of a barrow. The boy left prisoner. In this same yard there is an old watercloset that is open to all the tenants in ihat neighborhood. The police could not trace the box past this spot. Seni rsergeant Waters went to the watercloset on Sunday afternoon, and looked down it, but could see nothing. However, he and Senior -sergeant Taylor, accompanied by the wituess Kirkpatriek, again visited the closet, at ton o'clock the same night, and took with them some drags and hooks, which they then let down the closet, and with the first pull they brought up a large lump of flesh. They then prized up some of the floorboards, and found floating on the surface of the water one arm and a foot. They then procured the assistance of a nightman, and bad the closet emptied, and among the soil they found the remaining portions of the body. The limbs were all dissected in the most careful manner. Only one bone is missing. The remains were at once cleansed and sent to Dr Renwiek. Telegraphic intelligence from Wellington is to hand to the 30th ult. We learn that there has been a great deal of rain and heavy floods in the country districts. The Governor has sent the Sturt to Wanganui for native volunteers. The 18th Regiment will garrison Keteibarai, thus enabling all the colonial forces to take the field. Captain M'Donnell is recovering satisfactorily. The natives to the north of Auckland are discontented. The " Southern Cross" attributes this to Colonel Russell's mismanagement, and to the dismissal of the native assessors. The survey parties have been threatened by travelling Hau Haus. Thompson ia seriously ill. Doctor Sara pronounces his condition very precarious. The Court of Appeal is adjourned till May next, when it will meet in Dunedin. Auckland native affairs are reported to be generally calm, although the defenceless state of the Waikato military settlers is creating alarm. A reported wanton murder of a European by the natives occa■ioned much disquiet, but after several days it was proved to be untrue. A detachment of troops has been sent (o Tauranga. Napier is perfectly quiet. Miss Rye, in June last, read a paper on her Australasian experience and observations, before the Social Science Association, of which the following is a passage :—": — " Do you ask me generally what is my impression of these colonies as a whole ? I answer, ' Good ; very good, me very sense of the ■word. 1 People will tell you of the extreme heat of summer. I answer ibat that is infinitely more bearable, aud healthier too, than the winters of the northern hemibphere. They speak of the dust-storms, but we have our lav moie cruel and biting easterly x\ inds. The great family of the noucontents point derisively to barren spots and indifferent Jand. Is all Europe alluvial soil, twelve feet deep : ' and are we to ignore Arabia Felix, because we coufess to an Arabia Deserta ? You will tell me that scores of men and women have returned from this ' good land ' ! infinitely poorer limn when they started. I answer, true ; bub iii the majority of buch cases the failures have been occasioned solely by the worthlessness or absolute incapacity of the individuals who have failed ; though, seeing that tlie race is not always for the swift, nor the battle for the strong, I am at a loss to know why we should expect a reversal iv our favor of one of tlie great laws of life, simply because we emigrate to the antipodes. All we urge— and a. great all it is — is, that while here, for ' the majority of men and women, the rule is incessant and labor - ous work, and often a struggle to obtain even that, with a minimum amount of pay ; there it is a maximum of pay for a minimum of work. Do not misunderstand me. Work is work there as truly as it is here. The day laborer at Port Philip, shouldering his load, finds the weight as heavy and the daily drag as wearing as our friends here at St. Katherine's. The merchant at his ledger, the barrister in court, the governess with the children — all struggle -)n very much as we are doing to-day ; with tin's grand difference in their favor, however, that each sees his way to an end. There are more holidays, there is better pay, there are infinitely better opportu nities of investing earnings, and no danger of ' dying in harness ' — the modern martyrdom. The dominant feeling among the people there is hope. You see it in their eyes, in their carrJHgo, in their tone. I appeal to you, can we say the same for ourselves here ? I wish I could convoy to your minds the painful impression that is now being conveyed to mine by the faces and general appearance of the poor here ; how pinched, and haggard, and pale they look, after the brightness aud health to which I havo been accustomed these three year»."J t