AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XX, Issue 2755, 16 November 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

A director arrestedSydney, November 14. — Mr Addy, Managing Director of the British and New South Wales Investment Society, has been arrested at the instance of the liquidators on a charge of falsifying the bpoks and defrauding the Society out of £100. It is not known^ whether there are any more defalcations. Deaths from influenza. Sydney, November 14 — During ,t|ejfnjipiitfat p| October sixty deaths occ"u¥red f rdm influenza in JSew South Wales. No Russian Jews for Australia. ,]Vlelbotjbne, November 15. — Baron fiirsch has assured the Victorian AgeDt- General in London, that not one single Jewish immigraut would be sent to this colony, seeing it was iiulikely that they would be welcomed. Piiuishuient ot the Chinese rioters. Melbourne, November 15.— The Argus' special correspondent at Shanghai, wired yesterday that the have beheaded two of those taking part iv tjhe recent riot, jand bambooed others, but the actual leaders are screened. The latter today paid 10,000 taels iudemnity for the Wuhu outrages and 20,000 taels ,to th& f&miließ of the men murderad idiWohuhu.: Further rioting has taken place near Foochow. *" " I Rebels numbering 15,000, armed with repeating rifles, attacked" the town of Tchirie and defeated the Imperialists eyery where.

scf t|ish>4h ai^ r e#istic& # %rsli. M -rr. .■*=-"*£... -,-,:-i-, •■-"■ A LECTURE BY THE EEV. E. SqOTT WEST^' * j'- : /■ '-fc . On Eriday evening this welLknown lecturer delivered f his lecture; oq Scottish characteristics, in the Public Hall to a numerous audience. Mr West was very happy iv his delineations of Scottish c&araeterss such ,-< The Parson," "The Jfeadj^v ■;" The Scotchman making love," efc, and in dealing with the Scotch as a nation as well as individually, he referred imprefsively to their religious life and bravery, and. illustrated their contempt of titles in the abstract, by aQ eloquent recital of Burns's poem "A man's a man for a' that." The lecture was brightened with a vast fund of characteristic and numerous stories which kept the attention of the audience, and occasionally eonvuiaed them with laughter. During the evening songs were sung by Mrs fjundius, Miss Eobinson and Mr Jones, and the chair was ably filled Mr, Badger. At the conclusion of ilie lecture a vote of thanks to Mr West was carried vociferously, and the meeting was closed by the company Binding '.* A-uld lang ayae."