AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Post, Volume XLVI, Issue 21, 25 July 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

« | UNITXD PEIBS ASSOCIATION. I Sydney, 24th July. An important point was decided in the Full Court to-day by five Judges to two, the effeot of tne judgment being that silence on the port of a prisoner can be commented on, and used as evidence against him. Newcastle, 24th July. Tho Marine Board has called on Captain Thorpe, of the steamer Elingannfo, and Mr. Lewis, the second officer, to show cause why tho collision with the schooner Guiding Star which was cut in two, should not be attributod to their want of vigilance.

Latest Intelligence. (Eeoeivea July 25, 11.10 a.m.) SrDNJtr, Thi« Day. The Marino Board has found that the steamer Hilda, which struok a reef off Fort Hackling-, was lost through the default of Captain PhiUipson, who has been requested to show oanse why his certificate be not suspended. Melbourne, This Dat. The Chamber of Commerce has resolved against the imposition of the primago duties and Income Tax as proposed by the Govern- : mont, and that the oourse demanded by '■ public polioy is » reduction of the oxpendi- : ture to the level of the national income. Thursday Island, This Dat. ' Tho steamor Chingtu has arrived from ! Hong Kong with Wo cases of small-pox on ! board.

A groat oletrmjc salo of puflttlnm. *0., at T. Ballioffer'f, Wilhi-itreot, is unnonnctxl. Th» KonmnonMs of the ulc U usurod by the hot that Mr. B«lliuger it bound to (riro up the prombu within a few week*, they having betn told to the Doited Itrmen' AUteno* for «§OOO.