-The lilawarra Express states that a party who had gone out pros pecting, had • found the mineral on the ranges at Bulli. The Express adds : — " Several landholders in.the district are cherishing most extravagant ex pectations of the increase which the value of their properties is destined to undergo. We should be very glad should their dreams be realised, but. we are not ao sanguine as many touching the result." At the Criminal Sessions in Sydney, on the 29tn Maroh,. William Cooper was convicted of forgery. White,aleaderofa gang of burglars, received a sentence of ten-years -on the roads. - Jacobs, and Williams his associates, were sentenced io two years' imprisonment each. Red Jack, the bushranger, has been capturod in the western districts. A person-writing to the South Australian Regis ,ter, at Adelaide says, that he believes there is not a man inclined to work who is out of a job in South Australia this day. The Volunteers op ■ South "Australia.— The Defence Commission of Adelaide reports that it finds the state of the volunteer force unsatisfactory, and proposes to divide the colony into districts and compel eaoh district to provide a certain force. If sufficient volunteers do not come forward for each district; the ballot to be resorted to. Parliament to be asked to provide payment for the. services of the volunteers. ' The Defence Commission of South Australia re ports that so long' as King George's Sound is a coal depot, to leave it in its defenceless condition is to court an attack of a far more formidable character than could by any other possibility be made upon the whole Australian colonies, andthai;, tba action of all Australian colonies is necessary, in order to bring by uniform legislative sanction, all large coal depots exposed to attack immediate under the con trol of the various local Governments. The New South Waleß Government , proposes to tax bank notes' to. the extent of two per cent. A later telegram from Adelaide dated 12th. says :— The report of the Defence Com mittee'ls now published. It recommends a small paid militia, 'with an auxiliary volunteer force, and artillery from England. '■ The publicans of Adelaide are endeavouring to start a brewery company. Railway Accident at Adijjwide. 