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SUMMARY OF SYDNEY NEWS.
AUCKLAND, Bay of Islands, and Port Ni
cholson have heen approved of as ports of
entry in the northern island of New Zea
land, by Ids Excellency the Governor.
— A township had been formed on the
road from Braidwood to Jervis Bay ; the
settlers, however, in the vicinity of the
former place seem to he hardly alive to the
advantages lately opened up to them by
communication with the coast, Colonel
McKenzie being the only settler who has
sent his year's clip of wool by the new
route.— On account of the crowded slate
of the Lunatic Asylum, notice has been
given that no more patients can be admit-
ted for the present into that establishment ;
this is the more to be regretted as one or
two of our prominent public characters
have lately appeared to be doing their ut-
most to obtain admission therein. — The
Sydney Gazette of the 22nd tilt, comments
very strongly on the conduct of a Mr. Sur-
geon Baker, who came out some few months
ago to Port Phillip, as the medical superin-
tendent of the immigrant ship Agricola, in
having committed " a gross and unfeeling"
case of seduction on a young woman of
respectable family, named Mary Thornton,
a passenger by the Agricola, and, after com-
pleting her ruin, abandoning her in Sydney
without either relatives or friends in the
colony, or a chance of obtaining employ-
ment. What makes the affair worse is that
the wretched profligate is a married man. —
The amphitheatre erected by Signor Dalle
Case, the clever gymnastic performer, was
opened to a crowded house on the 26th ult.,
under the title of the Australian Olympic
Arena; the internal decorations of the
building are warmly praised by the Sydney
journals. The fittings up are after the plans
of the Olympic, the Prince's Theatre
and the late Astley's in London. — Colonel
Wilson, who was thrown from the Windsor
coach a few weeks since and severely bruised,
has been pronounced by his medical at-
tendants to be out of danger. — A report
prevailed that several of the best London
dramntic performers would shortly visit
Sydney.—The blight had almost destroyed the
grapes in the Hunter's River district, and the
hot winds had entirely ruined the maize
crops in the neighbourhood of Liverpool and
Campbelltown. — llis Excellency the Go-
vernor is engaged in revising the list of
magistrates; a number of names are expected
to be struck off the list. — Mr. Justice Stephen
has recommended that all witnesses in
civil actions who do not attend punctually,
shall be sued for the amount of the debt for
which the action was brought, as well as the
costs of such action.— On the 21sl ult., up-
wards of 600 head of cattle were sold by
auction, at an average price of £2 10s. per
head. — In the Government Gazette, of the
22 ml, nil official stntement of the proceeds
of Intestate Estates is published, l>y w hich it
appears that of 9s. lid. paid over
to the late Registrar, „£7,857. 6s. 2d. still
remains to he accounted for. — English intelli
gence had heen received in Sydney to the
5th of October. — Mr. W. Williams, who
practised lor ninny years in the early days of
(he colony as n solicitor of the Supreme
Court, hut who subsequently retired from
professional pursuits, litis been nguiu admit
ted as nil attorney, solicitor and proctor of
the Court. — The scarlet fever had broken
out at Goulburn. — The crops of hay and grain
had heen gathered in throughout the country.
— A number of gentlemen had formed them-
selves into a race club, of which the Governor
is patron, and Sir Maurice O'Connell vice-
patron ; the subscription is £10 annually. —
The master of the Success, a vessel trading
between Sydney and New Zealand, had lost
his life off the coast of the latter place by
being knocked overboard by the swinging
of the mainsail boom during a gale of
wind. — A series of lectures were being de-
livered in the Sydney Mechanics' School of
Arts, on phrenology. — On the 18th January,
her Majesty's cnuitnissioa under the sign
manual was rend in the Supreme Court ap
pointing the Hon. Alfred Stephen third judge
nt Sydney in the room of the lion. J. W.
Willis, now resident judge in this province. —
Mr. Miles, the superintendent of police litis
appointed Mr. Charles Urodie, police runner,
to the office of chief constable nt Mel
bourne; we understand that this appoint
ment lias tnken place in pursuance ot a re
commendation made by Mr. Justice Willis
a few weeks since. — The steam dredge, the
cost of which to the government lias been
estimated nt considerably upwards of
„£l0,000,is at length completed; she has been
found to unswer admirably, picking up mud
at the rate nf twenty tons an hour. — Nine
teen vessels are nt present in Fort Jackson
harbour, either loading or laid on fur Eng
land. — The first number of a new paper,
called the Teetotaller, was published in Syd-
ney on the 8th January. Not having re-
ceived a copy, we are unable to speak as to
its merits.— The Rev. E. L. Threlkeld, late
missionary to the aborigines, has published a
pamphlet entitled, " An appeal to common
sense, being a comparison of Mahommed
and the Pope with the Messiah," — The
commissariat department has received five
boxes of specie by the Wilson, from Green-
ock. — The first show of the Floral Society for
the present year has been fixed to take place
on the 25th instant. — State of the female
factory on the 4th January: 1,028 women
and 302 children. — W. H. Gaden, Esq.,
the Belgian Consul in this colony, died at
his residence in Bent-street, on the 23rd
ultimo. — A report that His Excellency Sir
George Gipps had resigned, was current in
Sydney in the early part of last month;
this, however, was subsequently contra-
dicted by the leading journals. — Tlhe
return ol the notorious John Thomas
Wilson to tho colony is expected, —
The steamers Victoria, Sophia June, Mill Mail'
land are advertised to be sold by auction,
on the 1 5th inst, — At a lute meeting of the
shareholders of the Sydney Bank, the report
presented gave uracil satisfaction, and a
dividend of 5J percent, for the hall-year
was declared. — The first number of a work
to he completed in 12 monthly parts, entitled
" Legends in Australia," written by a native
of tho Colony, was to lie published at
Sydney, on the 1st inst.— Sir John Jamison,
who, a few weekssince, was taken suddenly
and dangerously ill, is out of danger and
rapidly convalescing. — Mr. Justice Burton
has notified his intention of enforcing the
rule which was adopted some time since,
rendering it imperative on the part of the
Sheriff to produce n monthly return of the
business done in his department. — Lake
George, situated in the Argyle district, and
which, when first discovered, was a sheet of
water upwards of twenty square miles in
extent, is dried up; this is not unexpected,
as every year since the location of its banks,
a considerable decrease has been observed
in the size of the lake. — The 26th January,
the 54th anniversary of the foundation of
the colony, was observed in Sydney as a day
of general festivity; the most attractive
amusements were a splendid regatta and a
cricket match, wound up in the evening by
bulls, theatrical entertainments, dinners, &c.
— The Hunter's River Gazette states that a
club of respectuble individuals was about
to be formed at Newcastle. — The Sydney
lleruld, of the 2 1st ult. publishes the sub
joined extract of a letter, from New Zealand,
dated 15th December : — " The government
Imve, to addition to the claim ol the light ol
pre-emption, tutally prohibited us Irum
trading or trafficking with the natives in the
article of timber; the result is that they
have made a solemn league with each other
to vviiiveitll petty disputes umtjoiii the tribes
ill one body to destroy the white men's
property mid expel tiicm Irom the island.
1'lie quantity of urinsuod ammunition llicy
possess is incredible — one chief alone lias
upwards of live tons of powder, with no
immense stand of anus, — and the Ameri an
house of Mnlicw sold them, last week, somc
fil'ty or sixty kegs; tliey are also purchasing
bags of small shot und melting the same into
balls." — Tlie Sydney lleruld lias taki o occa
sion to comment on the dishonourable
practice oil the part of London consignees,
of sending out, when they receive purltcular
orders suited fur the culonial nutikei, an
exactly similnramotiiii ol goods on their own
account tvL the same time; thus tinlnirly
availing themselves ol the skill and judgment
of their correspondents. — The stewards oi
the Home-bush Races are busily engaged in
tanking eveiy necessivy urrangement to
ensure their March meeting coming off with
eclat. — A masonic lodge, under the dispensa
tion of the Grand Lodge of Ireland, has
recently been established in the town ol
Windsor under tlieuanieuf the Snciul Lodge.
—The Gliicf Justice, from the delicate state
of his' health,, had been obliged to apply for
leave of absence for a week or two, uod hud
gone into the interior to try the effect ol
tranquility and change of air. — There are at
present 3-10 male convicts under sentence at
Cockatoo Island. — A frightful drought con
tinues to devastate the country to the north
of the Liverpool Range. A private letter
received thence states, that not a drop of rain
has fallen lor nearly 12 months, and that there
are at least 3,000 head of sheep and cattle ly
ing dead in the district from sheer starvation.
— Three men who went from Sydney with
the intention of squatting on the Upper Cla-
rence River, are supposed to have been
murdered by the blacks, their horses hav-
ing been found running in the bush, and
they themselves never having been heard of
since leaving Sydney. — In the insolvent
court t lie discharge of Mr. Goodwin was
opposed by the trustees of his creditors ;
but ul'ter a lengthened examination, Mr.
Goodwin promising to assist the trustees
in the winding up of his affairs, the court
granted his disclinrgo.— The potato crop in
Illawarra is this season a partial failure,
from the ravages of the lady bird, an insect
which destroys the leaves of the plant, and
whose maggots from the first state of their
existence prove very destructive. Shortly
after the leaves are attacked the growth of
the bulbs is at an end .
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