INTERCOLONIAL.

Evening Post, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1897, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

The Public Works Committee of the New South Wales Parliament has adopted the proposal against erecting new Parliament Buildings, but favouring the Government Architect's scheme for alterations to the present Houses at a cost of £15,000. The Hoffman Brick Company, Melbourne, bas announced to its employe's, unsolicited, that it will give them a rise in wage* equal to 10 per cent. The gold export of Westralia for the first 11 months of the year exceeded 600,0000z, as against 281,2630z for the whole of last year. Miss Ethel Haydon, the well-known Victorian actresi and singer, has been engaged as principal girl for the coming pantomime at the Prince of Wales's Theatre, Manchester. At Adelaide, William Martin, the American cyclist, has been awarded £50 damages against the South Australian Advertiser, which published an account of an alleged fight. At the Paddington (Sydney) Tolice Court, Joseph Fitzgibbon, a commercial traveller, was fined £300, or 12 months' imprisonment, for the illicit distillation of spirits. Miss Edwards, Superintendent of the Working and Factory Girls' Club at Sydney, states that sweating prevails in the city to a greater eiteut now than ever before. It is stated by one who has just returned from a European trip that the capital necessary for the construction of a tunnel between Sydney and North Shore is readily forthcoming. Artesian water has been struck at Warren (N.S.W.) yielding 1,500,000 gallons per day. Another new North German Lloyd mail steamer, the Bremen, of 11,000 tons, is now in Australian waters. Miss Elsie Hall, the young Australian pianist who«e doings in Europe have frequently been recorded by cable, has just returned to the colonies.