GENERAL SUMMARY.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 2993, 28 January 1881, Page 3

GENERAL SUMMARY.

Sydney, January 22

Owing to the difficulty of procuring news of the Conference, the Herald publishes a strong complaint this morniag. It says it seems curious that the representative of the Melbourne press should gain information of the proceedings of the Conference which is sternly denied to the Sydney press. At Temora a monster meeting of watermen and miners was held on Wednesday about the water supply. _ Inflamatory speeches were made, and it was threatened to take the dam by force. Ultimately it was agreed, if the high price was charged, the miners would go and take the water. The meeting condemned the action of the Warden in upholding a squatter, and giving him a verdict against the watermen.

The Conference yesterday had under consideration a telegram placed before them addressed to Lord Loftus by Sir A. Gordon, referring to the action of the Conference iv appointing a committee to inquire into his powers as High Commissioner, and stating that application should have been made to him. The Conference resolved to send a reply that it would be very ready to receive any in for mation Sir A. Gordon was prepared to furnish.

Melboene

A bush fire between Windermere and Smythesdale has destroyed £10,000 worth of property. Four Collingwood larrikins have been sentenced to three months imprisonment for assaulting a chinaman. Edward Barnes, employed in the Parliament library has been sentenced to three months imprisonment for indecency.

Detective Ward denies that Hart, who was arrested at Ectuina, is a brother to Steve Hart.

Brisbane

The case of criminal libel, Skenthorpe versus tbe editor of the Western Champion, was concluded on Thursday, the editor being committed for trial at the April session at Rockhampton. Witness deposed that Skenthorpe stated publicly that he found the telescope, diary, and compass, of Leichardt near Salt Creek under a corolibath tree on Herbert River. The relics, he said, were twenty inches under the ground. He also got Classon's diary from information received from the blacka.