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Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1898, 5 September 1874, Page 3

The late Mr Robert Freeland, of Gryft'e Castle, Bridge of Weir, cottonspinner, has bequeathed legacies to religious and charitable institutions, and to his servants, amounting to upwards of L 40,000. Several revolts among the peasantry of North Prussia have taken place, owing to a change in the local Government. The troop 3 were called out, and came into collision with the people. Serious trouble is expected. The Agent- General of South Australia is to receive in future LIOOO a year free of income-tax instead of the L9OO to which he has been hitherto restricted. • His staff is also to receive reinforcements, an assistant being appointed at LSOO a year, and a clerk at a moderate salary. Both of these offices are to be filled up from Adelaide without delay.. The post of Assistant Agent-General has been bestowed upon Mr Samuel Deering, one of the best officers in the service. He relinquishes the position of secretary to the Commissioner of Crown Lands, worth L6OO a year, in order that he may revisit tbe mother country. Mr Dutton has long complained, on patriotic grounds, of the smallness of his salary and of his establishment in London, and this sudden outburst of legislative liberality will certainly embarrass him by depriving him of a good ground of grievance. The increases proposed by the Government in the salaries of civil servants as a whole are being freely assented to by the Assembly.