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INTERCOLONIAL.

Melboubne, September 19. The Treasurer's Budget last year estimated the deficit at £112,500, 'but later payments have reduced it t0'L77,000. . A disputed will case, which has been before the court for some days, had a somewhat sensational ending yesterday. The will was alleged to be a forgery, and counsel for tho caveatrix sprung a surprise on the propounded of the will. A witness named Cameron was busily denying , a statement that he had approached various persons with instructions to forge the will, when counsel produced the actual person who drew up the document. Cameron then confessed the will to be a forgery, and was committed for trial on the charge of perjury ; and, with another witness, was further committed on a charge -of 'conspiracy to utter a forged •will. Madame Simonsen, well known on the operatic stage in the colonies, died suddenly ; aged 61. Sydney, September 19. A highly important development has taken place in connection with the Government artesian boring in dry country. "At a depth of 1800 ft a boro in the "Wilcannia District struck a splendid supply of fresh water, the flow being a million and a-half gallons daily. Experts claim that tho discharge of certain fossils from the bore .establishes an important geological fact, Srijit water does not come /from cretaceous rpc&s, but from underlying triassic or Jurassic beds. Mr Thomas Buckland, for many years president of tho Bank of New South ■'- Wales, is dead. Ho was well known in t connection with pastoral pursuits-in Wellington in his early years. The relief party .wore not able to get to the scene of the massacre of Baron von Norbeck and others to recover the bodies '■ owing to the bad weather and their inability to secure guides. Adelaide, September 21. A Mrs Boots left three young children in a tent near Cockburn. The lump upset and all were bnrned to death. The steamer TYamnes, bound to Westralia, was caught in a heavy gale. The shaft broke and 25 out of 48 horses aboard were most severely, and the others fatally, injured. - -

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