SYDNEY.

Wellington Independent, Volume XVII, Issue 1712, 1 April 1862, Page 3

SYDNEY.

(From the Sydney Empire.) A man named John Cook has met his death by a fall from his dray j the accident occurred near Mudgee, Deceased was a steady man. ; Mr. Henry Garnett, clerk in the Post Omoe, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart, with a pistol, . on Sunday last. ? The ceremony of placing the tomb ; over the grave of the late Mr. S. Cohen*' was performed yesterday in presence of a numerous assemblage. - The anniversary regatta first-class yacht race came off on Saturday last, and terminated in a victory in favour of Mr. C. Parbury's. Why Not. Robert Donelly, a shepherd of Mr. A. G. MoKenzie's, lost his life by stepping over a perpendicular bank, forty feet high. His head was completely smashed. Mr. James Samuel Laing has been ordained a minister of the Free Prosbyteriau Churoh. The event took plaoe at St. George's Church on Tuesday evening last. The Harbinger, a Dew weekly religious journal, has made its appearance in Syd- . ney during the past week. The Sydney Corporation have adopted , a form of a letter of condolence to her Most Gracious Majesty. . „x > .Kipper Billy, an aboriginal, was shot ; I dead by one of the warders while he[^|asi; ; . trying to escape from\ Brisbane Goal.! r ». Ho- was under sentence of death for being W. i concerned in the criminal assault'iSoonn* 1 mitted on Mrs: Rae,