NEW SOUTH WALES.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIII, Issue 129, 1 June 1907, Page 9

NEW SOUTH WALES.

A gror-er in examination in tho Sydney Bankruptcy Court Attributed 'his misfortune tij bad debts and being compelled to use coupons ov.ing to other grocers in Balmain doing soa Coupons, he had s?id, cost him 5 per cent, of his profits. Still another political party (says ai Sydney paper) is to be formed. Its leader will bo Mr.- O Sullivan, exMinister for Works. Mr. O'Snllivan intimates his resignation from tha remnant of the Progressive Tarty, and his intention is to organise a now party, which will work in sympathy with the Labour Party. It is to have tho title of "National Democratic Association." Professor David, of the University of Sydney, and his assistants and students in tho department of geology, have bwn for a considerable time engaged in working out the sequence of the coal teams in tho Hunter River district, a. task begun by tho Professor under other auspices twenty-three years ago, and the result (according to "the Daily Telegraph) is a positive conclusion that theic are moro workable- ssama than has been supposed, nnd that, consequently, New South Wales has a much greater wealth of natural resources in coal than she has hitherto boon credited with. Mr. E. F. Pittman, in "The Mineral Resources of New South Wales," estimated that tho avjilablc coal supply of tho State Was 100,000,000,000 tons. How much has to be added to those figuros to erp"ess tho quantity now believed to be within working distance of tho siii'faco has not yet been stated, but the addition is very large. Amidst the millions of sheep that pa&s through tho Hoincbu&h fat stock saleyards in the course of a fow years (says tho Sydney Herald) there is an occasional freak, and the moat romarknblo of its kind was seen on 22nd May, when a morino with four horns was penned. Tho animnl presented a moft peculiar appearance, and was more suitable for a. zoo or garden of varieties than a fat stock market ; and, judging by the price realised, it may find its way to some ehow-plncc before it leuehes the slaugh-ter-yard. Two honio sprang upwards from the head, not unlike an Ayrshire's, while the other two twisted down, somewhat after tho fashion of a bonr's tusks. Spirited competition took the price up to £3, nt which it was knocked down to a suburban butcher ; in tho ordinary courso of things ite price would have been about 16«. (Four-horned rams aro by no means so rare in colonial (locks as our contemporary seems to suppose. This featmo is characteristic of a bread of Syrian sheep.) Nearly a month ago one Ethel May It iky shot nt and wounded her husband, William Kiley, at Circular Quay. She subsequently shot herself, and died in tho hospital. It was stated ut the timo that domestic unhappincss had led" tip to tho shooting, and this «ns borne out by tho evidence ;tt tha inquest. Tho couple had boon married eight years, and things wont wrong from tho stait. t According to the testimony of MrH. ;j

Eliza Gardiner (the late Mrs. Eiley's mother), Riley was cruel to his wife. Ho kept company with other women, ' and remonstrance on the part of Mrs. Riley was met with blows. Mrs. Riley was fond of her husband notwithstanding all this, for when her mother tallied of divorce, and offered to supply the necessary funds, her daughter replied that nothing but 'death would part her from him. Riley, >r> his evidence, admitted that his married life had not been happy, bnt he dsnicd that ho had ever ill-treated his wife, who had a bad temper. Ho stated that before leaving for work on the morning of tho shooting th2i-o had been a quarrel. It was apparent from what then passed that tho husband and wife were on very bad .terms indeed. On the 23rd May tiior© were gathered at the Linnean Hall, Elizabeth Bay, many of the leading scientific men of Sydney to celebrate the bicentenary of the great forerunner oj nature-study, •Carl yon Linne, more popularly known by the n-une of Linnaeus. The feature of the proceedings was the admirably ! concise papers that had heen prepared ' to explain something of the life and ' work of the Swedish naturalist. To ! the preparation, of these addresses much '| research has been devoted. It was announced that Dr. Hill, Professor of Zoology^ in tho University College of London, had been asked to represent tho Stuto at the historic gathering that was being held at the University of Upsala, in Sweden, on 23rd and 24th Slay. There was an abundance- of material for expansion in the addresses, but any te-ndoncy towards undue- verbosity was checked by tho declaration of the chairman, Mr. A. H. S. Lucas, M.A., B.Sc, that each speaker would be limited to ten minutes. Amongst the visitors were the Consulsfor Sweden and Denmark and Professor Jordan, of California. Professor David said that the first work of the Linriean Socity was the catching of fish ; now it was the catching of men. Professor Jordan, in a succinct address, said that the ultimate teaching of science was to make us live in remembrance that God was all around us. The Consul for Sweden deliver a poetical and fervent, address, which was one of the oratorical events of the evening. Professor David Starr Jordan, of tho Leland Stanford University of the United States, at present visiting Australia, has delivered the first of -a series of lectures at tho great hall of the Sydney University, Sir Stanford M'Launn, Chancellor, presiding. The hall was filled to overflowing. Th« lecture which was remarkably fine, was entitled "The Call of the Twentieth Century." A shocking lift accident occurred on the 23rd May at the Hotel Arcadia, Pitt-street, Sydney, which resulted in the death of Rebecca Sherlock, aged 36, a resident of Leicester-street, Paddington, who was einplovcd as a waitress at ' tho hotel. Tho lift boy, Alfred Kingman, residing at 23 Catherine-street, Forest Lodge, sustained a fracture oft tho left arm and injuries to one of his , feet. With the exception of the lift , boy there was no person who actually , witnessed the accidsnt, but from the in: vostigatioii3 made Dy the police it would seem that the deceased was on her way to tho top floor in connection with her dutias as bedroom waitress. In hei hurry to get insido tho lift she tripped, ' and in falling threw her entire weight { on the guide rope, which was the only , thing at hand io grusp. The lift having j ths break thus suddenly released, shot ■ upwards. The woman, half in and half \ out of the lift, tried to soize the door of the moving cage, but being unable to retain her hold she screamed and fell through the well to the basement, a dibtance of nearly sixty feet. She was unconscious but stilt breathing when as- | si3tance arrived, but died almost im- . mediataly. The working of ths lift ' was tested after the accident, and it was found to be in good order. i A married woman named Mary Ann Dryden lately died by a strange mis- i adventura at her home, Wallsencl, New South Wales. Shs was a strong healthy woman, but occasionally took quinine powders. She was sitting, sewing, when the rosr, and took one of the powders. Resuming her work, sho began talking to her youngest child, two years old, when she was seized with acute internal pains and went into convulsions. Her husband asked what was tlie matter, and she replied that she had only a, quinine pow- I dor, indicating the packet. She died a few minutes after tho doctor came. Tht powder turned out to be hydrochlorate of strychnine, and some of the poison was found in her ttomach. The polico are trying to find where and how tho fatal mistake was made.