NEW SOUTH WALES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXII, Issue 66, 15 September 1906, Page 9

NEW SOUTH WALES.

On Wednesday, sth met., a speculator took deliveiy of 3200 sheep off sher.rs at Collarcnebii, New, South Wales, and the next a, thousand perished from wot <uid cold. Mining mon at Broken Hill are watching closely the progress of events in connection with the Newcastle coal trouble. They have been endeavouring to prepare for an emergency by laying in stocKs of coal, but have failed in Ibis effort. No mine, except the Proprietary, has enough coal to keep it Rojjig for more than a month. The Proprietary Mino has about two months' supply. Block 14 Mine last week managed to get nn extra 500 tons at 25s ■per ton. The mining managers havo considered the position in conference, but havt been unable to do anything to meet it. Thoy can only hope that the impending tinsis will be averted. A three-roomed weatherboard cottage, together with its contents, belonging to a farmer named Trompf, at " Middle Creek, New South Wales, was burned on the 29th inst. Trompf was away, and his wife had gone to her mother's place neai by, leaving her baby asleep in the house. She took her little boy with her, and he t.aw the fire while, at his grandmother's-, Smoke Was then coming out of the roof. Mrs. Trompf hastened across the paddock, and, rushinjj into the burning house, rescued her bat>y just as the roof fell in. Tho laxity of the marriage law in New South> Wales was severely commented on by Mr. Justice Simpson in tho Divorce Court od the 15th inst. One petitioner admitted that &he was married when 17 years of age, and had G\vorn, at her husband's instigation, that 6he was over 21. Anothor woman told a strange story of a surprise visit to a minister's house, where she ; was mairied mucn against her will under a threat of violence by her husoand. His Honour said the law was more lax here than in any other British community. It was certainly more lax than in England and some other States, of the Commonwealth. People could get married in ten minutes without any previous notice, and they could go co matrimonial agencieji and get married nt any hour of the night. Ho would, in the second case, refer the > evidence to tho Attorney-General. After a good deal of anxious negotiation (says the Svdnoy Morning Herald), it is understood that tho Government has at Inst arrived nt a satisfactory arrangement concerning the lease of Cranbrook, Rose Bay, the residenco of his Excellency the State Governor. Sir John See, wlien Premier, secured tho property at a rental of £400 per annum, but tho lease is on the poini. ot expiry, and it was teared thut difficulty would bo experienced in arranging another lease. Thfc correspondence has, however, resulted in the Government sacuring the residence for a further term of five years, it is believed, at an annual rent of slightly over £1000. The. lease embodies) a clause which gives the Government the right to purchase at a reasonablo figure during the currency of the lease. Whether or not the

good deal upon the Federal occupancy of Government Houso. An Albury telegram of the 30th ult. records an extraordinary misadventure at Talmalmo, Upper Murray. > A young fellow named Ernest Martin lost his life, and his companion, John Johansen, had his thigh broken through a fall into an unknown cave. The men were out rabbiting on tho Corryong-road, and were dinging out a burrow in limestone formation, when suddenly the ground gave way, throwing them through into a huge vault or cave about twenty feet in deptn. •Martin was pitched on his head, and broke his neck. His companion was more fortunate, but he fractured his thiprh. Fortunately he was able to send his dog back to their camp with his neckerchief tied round It, and a search party went out at once, and guided by tho dog, succeeded in" locating tho cave. They had no ropes, but with straps, belts, and braces they made a rope, and a man went down and rescued Johansen from his position. Then he brought Martin's body up.