AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CXXIII, Issue 16034, 14 September 1912, Page 11

AUSTRALIA.

United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—CopyrightGOVERNMENT HOUSE. SYDNEY. September 13. A meeting of the Citizens’ Committee decided to organise a united protest of city and country against the State Government’s proposal to evict Lord Denman from Government House. Three citizens undertook to pay tho £7OOO rent, or whatever is required, for two years, the balance of Lord Denman’s term, but subsequently withdrew the offer. THE COAL VEND. In the Coal Vend appeal case the address of Mr Wise, counsel for respondent, which has already lasted sis days, is unfinished. PROMPT ACTION. A resident in Dnrlinghurst, hearing a burglar in his house, waited at the entrance and knocked him senseless, and then handed him over to the police. MADAME KIRKBY LUNN. At Madame Kirkby Lunn’s opening concert she had an enthusiastic reception and a crowded house. CHIDLEY’S RELEASE APPLIED FOR. Chidley’s friends have applied for his release, guaranteeing that he will not lecture to the public. It is probable that the application will shortly be granted. FAT CATTLE. Tho scarcity of fat cattle is increasing. Prices in Sydney and Melbourne yesterday wero the highest for years, breaker operating in the city. A SUSPICIOUS ACTION. A well-dressed man, claiming to be an insurance inspector, was allowed by a suburban postmaster to inspect the rear premises of tho office, Going out later, tho postmaster discovered the visitor sketching the rear premises of the branch of the Commercial Bank next door. The visitor mumbled an excuse and decamped. The police believe that the description of the man tallies with that of a supposed safebreaker operating in the clay. AN INTERESTING RELIC. Collectors hitherto have been able to locate only fivo out of six of Lord Nelson’s sea-chests. Mr Alfred Pease has handed the sixth to the Australian Historical Society. It was left with Mr Pease’s father by Captain Barlow, whose widow married Earl Nelson, the only surviving brother of the hero. THE ORIGIN OF LIFE. Professor Haswell disagrees with Professor Schaefer’s opinions as to the origin of life. He states that as far as experience extends a living thing originates only from a living thing. Nothing is known about tho physical and chemical agencies by which most of the essential processes of life nro carried on. They are totally unlike anything operating in the sphero of non-living matter. BURGLARIES IN MELBOURNE. MELBOURNE, September 13. Burglars are active in the city. A hotel and two houses were robbed on Wednesday night, and two shops were attempted.. TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILWAY. By special train, Lord Denman, Mr Fisher and many legislators departed last night for Port Augusta, where Lord Denman to-morrow will turn the first sod of tho transcontinental railway.