NEW SOUTH WALES.

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1898, 5 September 1874, Page 2

NEW SOUTH WALES.

A man named Ireland has been found at Paddington with his throat cat. , He i 8 reported to be a wealthy miser. Mdlle. Jenny Claus appeared at the Victoria Theatre on Saturday, and received a perfect ovation. The selection from I Lombardi was enthusiastically encored. "There is a skeleton in every house" is a proverb which has had a literal interpretation given to it at 221 Castlereagh street, a lodging house kept by a Mr Thompson, who last week opened a, box which had been left with him by a mjin and a woman twelve months .ago, and found inside, to his horror, the "skeleton of a child. The remains were taken to the Central Police Station, and examined by Dr Egan, who,, however, was unable to say whether the child had been born alive. Let no man in future, says the " Ovens and Murray Advertiser," returning to England from Australia to take up property to which he is. justly entitled, ever breath the name "Wagga Wagga';" _A bricklayer named Scott, well-known in Beech worth, and the whole of tHis district for many years, and\ occasionally in the course of hi 3 trade sojourning in the town which is. so intimately connected with the most wonderful claim the. world has yet heard, was informed some months ago; by letters from England that he had become entitled to considerable property. .People, even men, change in twenty years. They get fat, or they get grey, or they grow :a •beard, or indulge, in a moustache, their accents, their language, {their manners becoming totally altered, but. above all, they may have been in Wagga Wagga. Mr „ Scott on his arrival amongst, his; expectant relatives had unhappily' undergone nearly all three changes— especially as he had grown, fat rand had been at Wagga. He was inßmedia.tely questioned as to whether he knew anything of that world-renowned town, and on answering in the affirmative, was told he wW"6tily a claimant," and that he must "try>'it on " elsewhere. In downright earnest Mr Scott's identity was challenged, and. he has been obliged to send back to" Australia for photographs, letters, and other dbcuments and proofs that he is himself . . ; , ... Eden, Aug. 27. The steamer Je.ddajh:put into Eden this morning with her : fore compartment on fire. She' was taken alongside the jetty, and carried away a portion of the strucr ture. Very prompt measures have been adopted to subdue the flames, with hopes of success. : ' Sydney, Aug. 27. Serious complications have arisen through the absence of the representative of the American Government here, there being no one to certify to documents going by the Calif ornian mail ; but the Governor has removed the difficulty by provisionally recognising Mr J. H. Williams as commercial agent. It ii expected that. Mr Adamson will recommend to the Governor the appointment of a provisional consul..^

appointment provisional [ A great fire occurred at Newcastle tliis - morning. Gardiner's draper's shop ancl I Woods Brothers' wholesale grocery stores, j were burnt to the ground.; The lossais i L 20,000, and the property was only/in- , sured for L 6500 in the Victoriaoffice^and L 3500 in the Liverpool, London, and > Globe office, s L 323,305 worth of tin has been ex- • ported hence since Ist January. r A Fiji letter says that Mr G. A. Woods • left Kandavau for England per Mikado!? • August 28. .; The fire on board the steamer'Jeddah was extinguished by scuttling the fore compartment. The work of stopping the holes was then commenced, preliminary to pumping her dry. Mr Harrison, mail contractor at Murrurindi, has been found drowned in a wate-hole. ' 'S At a general meeting of the Intercolonial Race Committee held to-day, a committee was appointed to receive the Victorian crew, and it was resolved to request the presence of Sir Hercules and Laliy Robinson. ' ' r !