AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXII, Issue 3066, 10 January 1894, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Royal visit.

Sydney, January 8. — Beid, leader of the Opposition, commenting on the i invitation to the Duke and Duchess '. of York characterised as infamous the proposal to spend vast sums of money in the entertainment which mi^ht be devoted to the starving people in the colony! extraordinary downpour. Sydney, Januaiy &— A water-spout burst in the Cooma district. At Cobungdon station ten and a half inches of rain fell in twenty minutes. Burled alive. Sydney, January 9.— A heavjr subsidence has occurred at the Proprietary Mine at Broken Hill in the southern portion. The men had left the mine, out two, named Jones and Richardson, went in again to fetch some tools, when a mass of earth fell and they were buried. It will be fully two days before they can be dug out, and there is no hope of saving them. The NTairnsblse. Sydney, Januaiy 9.—The whole of the Nairnshires cargo Will have to be discharged to allow of a complete survey of the vessel being made. IhTrs Knorr. Sydney, Januaiy 9. — Jones, assistant hangman, will probably undertake Mrs Knorr's execution. Only the Press and gaol officials will be present. A petition for a commutation bf the sentence willbe presented by Marshall Lyle, barrister. Baby farming case. Melbourne, January 8. — Mrs Knorr has confessed to a number of other crimes than those for which she was tried, but her confession is not to be made public until after the execution. , At the inquest on Jones, the hang- ; man, his wife stated that he had said ; that he would commit suicide sooner , than hang a woman, the witness her- , self threatened to leave him if he did . the work. An awkward mistake. » Brisbane, January 9.— The Colonial l Treasurer intimates that by a clerical error in the figures issued at the end of the year, instead of a credit balance { of £10,700 there should have been a . debt balance of £79,900.

■ yy j The steamer Jeannie} of the Arctic whaling fleet, which has just arrived at , San Francisco, reports that the steam j whaler Newport passed last Winter in the Herschel Islands, and, aided by a sea " particularly free from ice, worked her ' north thisSirammer in pursuit lof whales as far as 84deg, or withiu six degrees of the ■ North Pole. This is the most northerly i point that man has ever reached. The 5 ship was unable to proceed further; but , it is believed that, had the Newport,* been y supplied with dogs and sleds, the Pole could easily have been reached over the i ice. j [• —- l!o take the advertisement out of the j- paper during the so-called dull season is t about as bad as to stop feeding the horse because the present weather is unsuitable | for using him. The Auckland Herald says:— Strong ' complaints have been made to us of the ' killing of sheep and bullocks on the ■* Kotorua railway, at a place beyond J Morrinsville. The line is here quite I exposed, and cattle and sheep are > peculiarly apt to stray onto it. A few days ago five bullocks were killed. A neighbouring landholder found that he was several hundreds short in his count ■ of sheep, and the only conclusion he i could come to was that they had been : killed by the engine, and considerately . buried by the railway men in order to £ save irritation. This question of fencing the railway line is an old one, which has caused much complaint. The rail--1 way authorities are not legally liable to f fence, but we think that at a place > which has been found much exposed to the incursions of animals grazing in the surrounding country, the railway <• authorities should offer to contribute ' partof the expense. As a matter of ' fact, although in most oases the animals '■ are killed and there is an end of it, 1 there is very considerable danger to ' human life in such collisions. ■ \ The Customs duty paid on parcels hf | post shows a steady increase, the amount . having swollen from £1701 in 1889, to £5279 last j ear. The petition against Stout still hangs fire. The Returning Officer has not , retured frem his holiday. Some people say the matter is likely to 'fizzle' out. A woman who was travelling on the Manchester railway swallowed her false teeth in a fainting fit She was put under an operation and the teeth were ! recovered, but she died in a few hours. The accumulation of frozen meat in Victoria will shortly be rapidly reduced and shipped to the London markets, vessels being now available. The Waikato took 15,000 carcasesfrom the Newport Freezing Works, and this steamer will be followed by the Hornby Grange, which also leaves. Melbourne for London freighted with carcases. An interesting question as to the interpretation of a certain clause in the Bankruptcy Act cropped up at a meeting to the creditors of John Brodie, merchant, late of Palmeraton North. Clause 95 lays it down that for the purpose of a quorum three creditors must be present or represented, but according to the rules appended to the Act each creditors represented by a proxy shall be counted separately for the purpose of makiiig a quorum, * 'though the person acting as Sroxy be the same for two or more creitors." This, it was contended, would enable a single creditor, providing he held two proxies, to form a quorum, and in fact, though only two creditors were present, the meeting was held, one of them, Mr E. B. Brown, holding proxies ffSL&t least half a dozen creditors.—- Times. They have a derby over in Persia. A number of men enter their horses and deposit the entrance fees with the Shah, the race is then run, after which the Shah takes possession of the winner, and sticks to all the entrance money. There is a business-like simplicity about sport in Persia which speaks for itself . k^ - .