BRIEF MENTION.

Evening Star, Issue 8789, 1 April 1892, Page 4

BRIEF MENTION.

At tho criminal sittings at Melbourne on March 16 Robert Eelfit pleaded guilty to bigamy, having been married to Mary Jane Reaburn by N. Kinsman, at Fitzroy, on June 30, ISSS, his wife Louisa Elizabeth "Belfit (»le Smith), whom he had married at Pal mors ton, New Zoaland, on Marsh 6, 18S2, boing Btill alive. At the Sydney Central Police Court lately a man named William Smith was fined L2O, or six months'imprisonment, on two charges of posting circulars relating to sweeps, without having the printer's name and address upon them. Dr Crowther, the Hobart medico who was charged with illegal practices, is satisfied that tho prosecution will end in a fiasco, and he proposes to give a complimentary dinner to the police, in consideration of their " beautifully bungling the case" Mr William Loo Ching, said to be the oldest Chinaman in Australia, and a colonist of fifty-one years' standing, exhorts hia Sydney compatriots to drop their faction fends, and quarrel, if quarrel they must, only with Europeans. Edward Buxtou, a miner, was fined LlO, in default four months' imprisonment, in the Newcastle Police Court lately on a charge of fraudulently appropriating L 5 lGs Id, collected by hia lodge for the relief of a widow and family. Canadian sealers claim from the United States a sum of half a million dollars as damages owiug to their extended exclusion from the Behring Sea, pending a settlement of die dispute, Russia has informed the German Government that ehe has no intention of attacking Germany, and that the movement of troops towards the frontier is only a measure of precaution. The United States have paid an indemnity of 100 000 franca to Italy for the lynching of Sicilians, who were alleged to be members of the Mafia Society, in the New Orleans Gaol. The Government decrereitis only paid as evidence of friendship, not as an admission of liability

R-.waeb.al has been arrested in Paris on suspicion of being the author of the last Anarchist outrages. The Mariposa, from San Francuco via Auckland bus arrived from Sydney. Owing to unfaborable weather she was hove-to for fifty hours. A neiv trial of the action the Commissioner of Customs v. Sharland and Co. is to be applied for. The suggestion that the dispute regarding the champion whaleboat race should be referred to the New Zealand Rowing Association will not be acted upon, and the notion by the Waitemata Boatiug Club for the recovery of the first prize will therefore proceed. The Wellington Chambor of Commerce declined to give their patronage to a large meeting of the Railway League to be held here in a few days, on the ground that it was a political matter. Silver has risen jd per oz. The American visible supply of wheat is 61.600.0C0 bushels. Mr Austen Chamberlain, son of the Right Hon. J, Chamberlain, has been returned unopposed for tho Worcester seat in the House of Commons, rendered vacant owing to the expulsion of Mr G. W. Hastings, convicted and sentenced on a charge of fraud.

Mr H. Bottomley denies that he was tho vendor of the Hansard Union Company, but admits he was proprietor of the company, and that the not profit was L 15.000, not L 90.000.

Ovving to the large influx of Anarchists expelled from France, the police in London are taking great precautions to prevent them landing in England. The tiiil of six of the prisoners arrested in Walsall on suspicion of being connected with \n Anarchist plot is proceeding. Sir Richard \Yeb3ter, Attorney General, in opening the case, declared that the prisoners projected horrible atrocities.

At the wool auctions in London on Wednesday there was good competition, and opening prices were maintained ; crosß-breda were slightly cheaper, and coarse sorts were vt par to >.-l per lb lower than the prices obtained last aeries.