COLONIAL CLIPPINGS.

Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 69, 24 March 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)

COLONIAL CLIPPINGS.

Apeculiar strike occurred at Lambton, near Newcastle, the other day, when the sale of the new Larabton estate was opposed by a number of persons, including miners, who considered that the sale would materially injure their interests as holders of expired leases in the locality. Intending buyers who arrived on the scene by train from Newcastle were received with groans and hoots ; and Mr. G. E. Dibbs, M.L.A., who was amongst the passengers, was hooted and insulted. When the auctioneer | began to put up the lots the mob rushed the booth, and the scene became one of confusion. After two lots had been disposed of the auction had to be stopped for fear of loss of life. The ringleaders will be prosecuted. It appears from the Sydney Freeman's Journal that Father Huggard, who has been committed for trial for abducting a girl who was attending the conventual school at Bourke, N.S.W., received his exeat prior to the occurrence. The Freeman's Journal, which condemns his conduct severely, adds that his action does not therefore compromise the Church. The Argus declares that "the popularity of the Church of England in Victoria is due in great measure to the enlightened teaching which Bishop Moorhouse has inaugurated." The younger generation jpf the colonists — the moneyed kind — are described by Mr. Froude as "vain, ignorant, underbred, without dignity, without courtesy, and with a conceit which is unbounded." Mr. Stewart, a member of the New South Wales Legislature, has a strong dislike to play-acting, and recently moved, " That in the opinion

I of this House no lessons on playacting should be administered, and no dramatic exhibition or performance should be permitted in any school under the Minister of Public Instruction." The motion was rejected without much debate. The WaipawaMail of 16th March says: — A passenger by the 'train yesterday evening saw three smart " gentlemen fleece two boobies of £6 between Napier and Hastings. An interesting game called the " three card trick" was the cause of the money being circulated. The passenger pointed out the sharpers to the police; they had three friends, making six in all, but as he did not wish to give evidence, they were not prosecuted. In these days of civilisation, it is simply astounding that young men should allow themselves to be inveigled into playing at cards with strangers in railway carnages. The Exhibition complaints were not ill-founded, says the Napier Telegraph. Mr. Adanison, of Hastings, sent tM-ee cases to the Wellington ExMbition containing hives and tins of honey. Two cases only have been returned to Mm, and in these the hives are partially smashed, while the honey tins are battered in in their sides, and are useless. The Secretary of the Exhibition says the honey was sampled; that is undoubted, for no less than 62lbs were consumed in the sampling. Mr. Adamson expected compensation for the loss and damage done, but as a matter of course has got no redress.