NEW SOUTH WALES.

Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 315, 4 August 1868, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

The Chinaman Ah Snug alias Low All Snug, charged at Maitland, N.S. W., with the murder of Ralph and Amelia Lee, on the 9th June, has been committed to take his trial. At the close of the examination the prisoner made the following statement after being duly cautioned :—"I have nothing to say, except that on the Tuesday evening, 9th June, I went to Mr Lee's store to buy beef and tobacco, I bought there one shilling's worth of beef and sixpence worth of tobacco, I gave Lee for this half-a-crown. Lee only gave me sixpence back in change. I say, ' What for you only give me sixpence change?' Lee said, 'You only gave me a two shilling bit.' I asked Lee to show me the money; Lee then called me a rogue and a Lee then struck me and knocked me out of the store. We then had a fight together. I threw Lee down on the ground. Lee sang out to his boy to bring a knife to stab me. Lee took a knife fron his boy,and tried to stab me in the belly, and then stabbed me in the leg. I threw Lee down ; took the knife from Lee, and stabbed Lee a good many times. Lee dropped down, and I ran away. When I figtfc with Lee all his children help him. I never stabbed the girl that is dead. Perhaps the father killed her." he following is a copy of a letter from his Excellency the Governor, announcing the presentation of a donation of books to the Melbourne Public Library, from her Majesty the Queen; —"Government offices, Melbourne, 14th July, 186S.—Sir,—The Right Honorable the Secretary of State has, by command of her Majesty the Queen, transmitted to my care the accompanying copies of 'The Early Years of his Royal Highness the Prince Concert,' and ' Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the High. lands,' each bearing her Majesty's autograph signature. Her Majesty desires that these books may be placed in the Melbourue Public Library, to which institution they are presented by the Queen, both as tokens with which Her Majesty regards the development of institutions which tend to the spread of knowledge and intelligence in her colonial possessions and because she believes that these records of the earlier days of their Sovereign and Prince Consort will not fail to be valued by their subjects in this colony.—l have, & c . J. H. T. Mannebs Sutton."