ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

Inangahua Times, Volume II, 4 August 1880, Page 2

ADDITIONAL MAIL NEWS.

At Temora business people are highly elated with the result of trial washings, winch hold out promises of a permanent gold field. Mr Eekford is sure that he has the real Arthur Orton in the person of a Parramatta lunatic, and will try to get the other Arthur Orton out of Dartmoor prison. The Government prohibited the production of a drnma entitled 'The Kelly Gang' in Sydney on Monday night. The disappointment of the larrikin element of the metropolis was immenseAn extraordinary creature, bead like a snake's, hands like a kangaroo's, and body like a man's, but dark and hairy, is alleged to have been seen on the Serpentine Eiver, near the Grallon and Armidale "Road. The .Kelly country will reqoire gatrisoning like a country in a state of siege for years to come, and the Argus (Melbourne) recommends the formation of n force of young, lithe, dare devil bushmen. The adult European population of New Zealand is taxed at the rate of 4s 6d per head per week to pay the interest on the public debt, besides the ordinary cost of government. A piratical plot was concocted to seize the mail steamship Bowen on her last trip from Cooktown to Hongkong. It was detected, and the Chinese implicated handed over to the officers of justice at the latter town. Tha gold on board was the temptation.