BRISBANE.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1496, 26 November 1874, Page 2

BRISBANE.

November 20.

Supreme Court.—ln the case of J. E. Manning v. Corser, Maryborough, to recoTer £350—one month's rent of the Lord Ashley a verdict was given for defendant—The Government Resident at Somerset reports the despatch of a boat's crew to the scene of the wreck of the barque Batavia, coal-laden from Newcastle. They found her at Stephen's Island, in such a position as to lead to suspicion that the veasel was purposely stranded, it is completely gutted of stores, and there are no papers or documents.—The Marshal of the Vice-Admiralty Court has formally attached the Margaret Jane, schooner, for a breach of the Labour Act.—Twenty-eight thousand acres of the Darling Downs selections have been proclaimed to be absolutely forfeited, on the ground tha!; thjy were fraudulently acquired. — The bootmakers' strike has terminated, the men resuming -work on the employers' terms. P. P. Lousom was drowned by upsetting of a boat." The drought continues, and is causing greafc losses in stock and crops. Welcome rains are now falling. —An inquiry is being held into alleged immoral conduct of the officers of the immigrant ship Suffolk. There are seventeen chargps against the captain of the ship Suffolk, chiefly of immorality.—Mr. Stewart, a partner in the firm of Mackenzie Brothers, Gairlock, had his right hand blown off whilo fishing with dynamite. —Harrison, a wharf labourer, was killed through some bag 3of maize falling upon him, —The result of the trial which settled the , shoemakers' strike was, that a man, with1 the aid of a sole sewing-machine, made eight' pair gent's elastic-side boots in two hours and forty minutes. A representative of the Men's Union made the same number of boots, pegged by han'i, in three hours and foriythree minutes, which is considered the smartest work on record.