INTERCOLONIAL.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 14, 1 August 1895, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

Stdhet, July 30. '. The Premier proposes to take up the -work wbere it was left off bi fire the dissolution. He intends to immediately make appointments to the Legislative ■Council. The session, which is expected to bo shoit, will be chit fly devoted to financial-questions. News ha. been received ofa sensational tragedy at. Paita, New Caledonia. A convict named Piercourf, employed on Madame Fricotto's stalior, baying been discharged for some offence, procured some dynamite cartridges and placed' them in tho lady's bed when she was' asleep. Her body was blown to fragments, and her daughter, seven years old, wag seriously injured. Piercourt afterwards committed suicide by blowing his own head to pieoes with another cartridge, Mr Ferguson theElD.radoh.ro, has been awarded a certificate of bravery by the Deputy of Mines. Shearing in tbo western sheds of New South Wales bas begun. At Mungie station tbe shearers refused loi per 100 and struck, but afterwards accepted the offer and started quie'ly. This is taken as an indication that there will be little trouble with the union this year. Brisbane, July 30. Tho Government bacteriologist has dis covered that a number, of fowls in Brisbane aro dying of .chicken cholera. The discovery is considered important, as it removes one ofthe chief objections to the late Intercolonial R ibbit Commission of the dissemination of chicken cholera microbes for tbe purpose of rabbit extermination. The. Government are having a report made' on the discovery with a view of the possible employment of tho di<easo to prevent the spread of rabbits fn ths colony.