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NEW SOUTH WALES.
BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.
[per qbeville asd coup ant, beoteb's aqests.]
Sydney., 22nd June.
Mr Hirst, clerk to Messrs Hall and Alderson,
the tanners and leather merchants, was appre
hended on Saturday on warrant, charging him
with embezzling money the property of his
employers. The amount named in tho war
rant is £1100. He was brought up at the
police court to-day and remanded for a week.
A Chinaman has been arrested near tlargreaves
on suspicion of being the man who committed
the murderous outrages upon Mr Lee and his
family, at Ironbark, near Madgee, from the
effects of which father, son and daughter died.
He has been identified by one of the surviving
children.
Messrs Fotheringham and Mullen, the well
known auctioneers in George-street, have
made an assignment of their estates.
The earthquake which occurred on Thursday
night extended over a vast extent of country,
including Wollombi, Maitland, Morpeth, Loch
invar, Singleton, Musswellbrook, Port Ste
phens, Murrurrundi, Tamworth, Armidale,
Windsor, Liverpool, and Penrith. The ac
counts of the shock from all these places are
very similar ; the dnration of the shock is, ho w
ever, variously stated at from two seconds to a
minute. At Maitland, it is stated that some
people were shaken out of their beds.
The wreck of the steamer Black Swan, lost
at the mouth of the Manning River, was sold
by auction to-day, aud realised £175. The
eoalorly galoa whinh have prevailed lately have
been very disastrous to the coasters, and re
ports are to hand of the loss of several small
crafts.
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