INTERCOLONIAL BREVITIES

Evening Post, Volume LX, Issue 114, 10 November 1900, Page 3 (Supplement)

INTERCOLONIAL BREVITIES

Jimmly Governor, the black outlaw, is to be tried in Sydney ou the x^th inst. Dr. Laure, after spending 32 years in Sydney, lias returned to Marseilles, France, his native place. Ac a iiesimc of the timber conference held in Sydney recently, the New South Wales Timbei" Industries' Association has been formed. Considerable damage to property; was !d;one as the resuV-t of the riot at the conclusion of ex-Priest Slattery's lecture in Brisbane a few days ago. In connection with the Commonwealth inaugural ceremonies it is proposed to collect £10,000 for .street decoration and £5000 for the relief of the poor. Applications have been lodged with tho Agent-General of Immigration at Fiji for the introduction of 2261 Indian coolies to arrive during.'nex*t year. A Chinaman who informed on a countryman for .sly-grog selling at Albury, N.S.W., said! he did so because he aid not want to see the Government cheated. At Birch's Creek "(Vic) recently a farmer named Charles Parsons was killing a pig, when his knife slipped up, and entered his nose, slitting it to the forehead. Grasshoppers aue doing., an enormous amount qf damage to crops in the northern part) of Soiith Australia, and have left no in most places where they have passed. Edward H. Miller, the Adelaide manager of Reuters Telegram Company, has been committed for trial on a' chai'ge of converting .to his own use £170, the property of the company. | A Sydney baker who was prosecuted for having in his possession a quantity of light-weight bread, was ordered to pay 53 for each ounce light, making the total amount of the/fine £42 10s. Th© t Statist' of tho West Australian Mines Department has prepared a return showing that the total, gold output to date from the East Ooolgardie goldfield has been 68 tons 19cwt 2qr. During September and Ootober £8200 in mioiuey orders and postal notes was sent from Adelaide to Tasmania, nearly all 'the money being forwarded in connection with racing consultations. * A Brisbane Shopkeeper was recently fined £75 andi nearly £11 costs, with the alternative o)f six months' imprisonment, for haying obscene photographs in his possession. The fine was paid. -The New >~outh Wales Alliance has issued! a manifesto claiming that the elec■tors shall have the opportunity by means of local and State option, of dealing with the question of the liquor traffic. v George Collins, a Bendigo bootmaker, committed suicide a few • days ago by throwing Ihiuiself dowia an abandoned shaft. Prior to doing so he had tied his handkerchief tightly over his eyes. •• The Government has placed four acres of land at Port Adelaide at the disposal of tho Eastern Extension' Telegraph Company, in connection with the cable the company, intend to lay from. South Africa to The Grange, near Glenelg. Mr. William. H. Hill, one of the pioneers of New South Wales, and who, in company with Mr. Allan Macpherson, was the last white man to see and speak with the much-lamented explorer, Leichhardt, died at his residence a fortnight ago. The New South Wales Government has about sixty men actively employed 1 in the barrack yard, Chancery-square, making poles, gas and electric light fittings, and other decorative contrivances for the Commonwealth celebrations. Two thousand flagpoles are being made. % The Queensland Postal Department has for the present decided to abandon the idea of utilising motor cars for the conveyance of mails in drought-stricken districts. Two experiment* have been made, but they show that the motors, as at present constiiUiCted, are totally unsuited for the purpose. At a largely-attended meeting of Norwegian citizens held at Sydney recently, it was resdlved to' cable to Christiania, iirgmg that a warship be sent to Sydney in time for the inauguration of the Commonwealth. It was also agreed ■fo cooperate in an "all nations" procession should this be decided upon. Michael Cleary, who arrived at Bethanga (Vie.) recently in search of work, committed suicide in a determined manner. He borrowed a razor from a man who was shaving himself, and .deliberately drew it across his own /throat. ■ He almost severed Ms head from ithe body, and' died in a few seconds. Cleary had been drinking heavily, but was quite sober when he took his own life. The Queen is, it appears, anxious to secure photographs of all colonial officers wiho have been killed in South Africa. The Lieutenarit-Governoil of /Victoria has received a despatch stating that the War Office had not tho addresses of the next ol kin to tyhom Her Majesty's wish could be communicated. Mr. Chamberlain therefore asked that the local military authorities should supply the necessary names and addresses. tond Hopetoun's private secretary says ■the Governor-General, Lady Hopetoun, and their two sons will join the R.M.S. Victoria at Colombo, arriving at Fremantle, W.A., on 3rd December. Lord and Lady Hopetoun will there embark on the Royal Arthur, and go direct to Sydney, where they are due on 10th December, their sona remaining ion the Victoria, which they will leave at Adelaide, and proceed to Sydney by express. Speaking at Adelaide a few days ago, Mr. Reid said — "In xwl the Victorian trade was double that of New South WaCes. In 1899 the New South v.ales trade was £54,000,000 against Victoria's £36,500,000. In 1871 the New South Wales shipping trade was only 145,000 tons .more than Victoria. In 1899 it was 1,650,000 tons more, despite the advantages of Victoria's geographical position. In New Soxith. Wales, dnstead of farmers being ruined by Freetrad'e, they put nearly twice as much land under cultivation. More men were working to-day in the factories of New South Wales than Victoria. There were more women at work in Victoria." Mrs. Wright, who shot her husband in Melbourne q, fortnight ago, in a statement to a press representative, said that she and her husband had a quarrel. She toiok up a handbell to ringif and thus quieten the disturbance. He struck her in the mouth, and she went into the bedroom and got the revolver, and coming back shot him in the passage, wfienco he staggered to the back yard and lay down. The revolver was kept to protect themselves from ' , larrikins, they having once' given evidence against a push, in Court. Wright's dying depositions have been taken. He said it was all his fault, and afterwards added that he did not! know whether his wife fired the revolver orj whether he shoved it. That wonderful monument of the benefits of Protection, the Maffra Beet Sv^gar Company, is likely to be a thing of Hie past. Thousands nave been lavished upon it by a paternal Government, but it failed. Mr. C. van De Velde has now come to a satisfactory arrangement -with a Belgian or European syndicate, the object of which is to take over the industry in Victoria, and which will purchase the assets of the Maffra Beet Sugar Company now in the hands of the Government. All private capital will be employed for land purchase, settlement, and factory working. The eight hours a day and six days a. week system will be enforced, as well aa a minimum wage. The whole arrangement depends, upon the question the duty of the Federal Government will levy upon outside supplies. It is not probable that much will be done until this is settled.