SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 125, 29 May 1888, Page 2

SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

CONSCIENCE MONEY. COMPETITION BETWEEN THE SEXES. Adelaide, 23rd May, The Colonial Treasurer has reoeived. by the Melbourne mail Yiotorian postal notes for £2 3s 6d, with a slip in a lady's writing stating th^t the amount is oonsoienoe money from "R." This is the first remittance of the kind Mr. Playford has received. The delegates to the Trades and Labour Council from the South Australian Tailors' Association complainod at a meeting of the council that members were suffering from a grievance that threatened to, assume large proportions, viz., the employment of very large number. Bof wx>men. in the trade. They stated that only two Adelaide firms made a ppjnt of employing men, and that unless Borne decisive aation was taken at once there would be few men employed in Adelaide. The delegates from the different societies were instructed to lay the names of the offending firms before' their members, and urge the latter to deal only with those houses where men weTe employed. NEW 80UTS WALES. A MIRACULOUS ESCAPE. PECULIAR EXPOSURE OP A MINER'S CRIME. MR. JOHN TAIT'S SPORTING CAREER. ' i Std^b?, 28rd May. A girl, ; aged 14, nanied .Hetty Aitken, while travelling in a train in t the Blue Mountaind, was leaning out of the carriage window when- the dqor'gaye way, and she fell out ana -rolled' down the steep embankment. On being pioked up, she was foundto be badly cut and bruised,' and ausering from the shook, bnt she was nojt seriously injured. ' , ' ' ■<' ■ Some of; the jewellery stolen, from Worgan's Bhob at Penrith' threa "months' ago, when booty valued at nearly JB2OOO was carried; osvhaa been found in the possession I of a {pan named Samuel Deans, alias Jacob Bavieß, who U oharged with complicity in the theft, ; for which four persons are, sow serving long sentences. ' ' The aboriginal Thomas Drnitt, who was condemned to death for oriminal assault, and is at present waiting the extreme penalty of the law in Wagga Gaol, does, not appear in! any way affected by the determination of- the Exeoutive to eajry out 'the sentence. Frpm what dan, oe ascertained, it seems" that he v about 35 years of age, and came from, Pilliga station, where he iad been employed,' taking tfee name of his employer.' Ttte. ia a favourable speoimen of. Australian, black, showing more Ijh^n the ordinary intelligence. After being sentenced to death he turned Protsstant, haying preyiop^y stated that he held no particular oreed> He teems to fully comprehend \he nature of the sentence. A oase of Hiuoh interest has been heard at Milpvinka, whioh reveals the fact that a nugget weighing 12oz was found at the Monnt Crown mine in the latter end of last February by a man named Oscar Landbu.Tg, a Dane, who concealed the discovery front his mate, William Murray, but Bj^bse^nently made a confession to one of kia oountrymen named John Blougheit. When. Bloughest remonstrated with Ljmdburg for being dishonest to hip mate, who had treated him with exceptional kindness, Landburg threaK ened to split Blongheßt's head with a tomahawk, and then out. his own. throat. Bloughest laid an information against Landburg, who was arrested, and the nugjet/ww discovered buried a fewinohes in ground under Landburg's bed. The prisoner was sentonoed to four mqntlfB 1 imprisonment in Wiloannia Gaol. the hearing of the case Murray produced six other nuggets, whidfy Ue alleged had been taken opt of ''the same ground and within , a few feet of where prisoner obtained the [ 12oz qugget. After the case had been dis- ; posed of, the purloined nugget was sold for and the proceeds were divided between Murray and the prisoner. The sporting community lately sustained a severe shock when it became kno^n that Mr. John Tait, the well-known sportsman, had died suddenly while opming- tp Sydney from his residency at Petersham. Wh»n taken ill in, the train he was convoyed to the P^Uj.oe Alfred Hospital, but Ijef orehe reached 1 there life was extinct, Although apparently in robust health, the deceased gentleman was tronbled wjth keajt disease, which L« relatiyea expected would carry him off suddenly. Sfr . Tait was bom at Melrose, near Edinburgh, in. 1B&. He was liberally educated, and beoawe .a jeweller. Going to Tasmania, in 1830, he opened shop in Hobart, and was elected Alderman of that city. In 1847 he came to New South Wales, and kept an hotel at Hnntley afterward* removing to Bathurst, where he coiwtpßced one of the most successful and hogjoaraUle racing careers ever recorded, ia. the annals of the turf. He was xtefl, kio.wn. *n private life for his kin,dlinesA, generosity, ana. courtesy. H.q foveß a grown up fonily.