Australian.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 5603, 14 August 1889, Page 3

Australian.

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M_x_)otn_N"K, August 8

Tho marblo man now on exhibition here is the subject of an interpleader issue in the Supreme Court. Execution was issued last week against the exhibit on account of a debt of £347 owing by Mr. H. Stockdalo to Matthew Nathan and Co., of Sydney. In tho course of tho evidence it was shown that the marble man was purchased from Mr. Sola of Cowflat, New South Wales, for _;500, by Mr. F. Buchanan, a squatter, and Mr. C. Purnell, both of Sydnoy. The case was adjourned to allow Sir. Buchanan to produco tho receipt of the purchase.

Victor yon Shult/, the defaulting manager of the Asbestos Manufacturing Company, bus been arrested. Ho had a bottlo of laudanum in his pocket, and it is presumed that he intended to destroy himself if caught. Tho bags containing sovereigns discovered at Williamstewn have beon indentifiod as those stolen from the Oriont Company's steamer Iberia. Tho gold will now bo delivered to the company. Francis Wisdom Desailly, ono of tho pioneers of Victoria, died to-day. He took a prominent part in the agitation for the separation of Riveriua from New South Wales and the annexation of that district to Victoria. Tho first concert of the new Victorian orchestra, which has been organised on a national basis, partially by public subscriptions and partly by Government subsidy, was a grand success. Mr Hamilton Clarke, the conductor, who was brought out from England, met with a great reception. Mrs Fleming, keeper of a rather fashionable boarding-house, is charged with infanticide. The evidence disclosed the fact that the child in respect to which the chargo is made was born alive, but wa« strangled.

Sydney, August 8. Tho Assembly last night passed an address to the Queen praying that constitutional government bo granted to Western Australia without delay.

The Now South Wales Waterloo Cup was won by Rambler, Folly being the ruuuorup.

HoflAUi, August 8. Tho fruit importers and growers havo forwarded to the Premier of Victoria copies of a resolution carried by theru at v meeting protesting against tho increase of the duty on fruit imported into that colony.

Mr Shoobridge, a fruit grower of Tasmania, who has been to England to loam the latest and most improved methods of preserving and packing Australian fruit for tho Home market, has returned. If<> states that Australian fruit compares favor.ibly with the fruit exported from America and other places, but tho great secret of successfully forwarding South Australian and Victorian fruit is to send the first crops ; late crops were too soft, and could not stand tho long voyage.