AUSTRALIAN.

Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9432, 2 June 1896, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

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MEA.GHER STRUCK OFF THE

BOLLS. Sydney, June 1. Meagher, in showing cause why he should not be disrobed, took up the position that he could not violate the confidence o£ a client, and that he had paid dearly for any error of judgment he may have made. He submitted that if it was an error he was forced into it, or otherwise he would have put himself in the unenviable position of divulging the sacred confidence of a client. The Full Court struck Meagher off the rolls. The Chief Justice pointed out that Meagher had not taken his partner into his confidence. Had he done so it was probable that the firm would have remained quiescent in the matter of agitating for Dean's release, and left it to the public. As a matter of fact Meagher made a deliberate misstatement to his partner by affirming Dean's innocence. Looking for a motive the Judge said he could not assume for one moment that Meagher •had sympathised with the criminal, but thought he was prompted by a feeling of selfglorification. I THE MISSING DETECTIVE. Sydney, June 1. The police searched the Taluue for Kh'by without success, although it is alleged that they found traces that a man had been secreted aboard. GOLD DISCOVERY. Thursday Island, June 1. Rich alluvial gold has been discovered at Port Moresby in New Guinea. FATAL ACCIDENT. Melbouene, June 1. Mr Charles Robinson aud his wife, while driving over a railway crossing at Natimuk, were caught by the train and the buggy was smashed and both were killed. THE CYANIDE PROCESS. The Australian Gold Recovery Company recently sought for an amendment of their patent in Victoria to limit its use to diluted solutions of cyanogen. This proposed amendment is believed to be prompted by the English appeal decision. The Government opposed the amendment, and after an exhaustive argument the Commissioner of Patents decided to refuse the application for the amendment, i THE McPHEE ROBBERY. Melbourne, June 1. Robert Butler has been arrested on suspicion of being concerned in the McPhee robbery. The accused was sentenced at Dunedin, in 1880, to eighteen years' penal servitude for burglary and ten years for sacrilege. When leaving the Court the prisoner caught sight of a female relative and has acted hysterically ever since, butting his head against the walls of his cell.