INTERCOLONIAL.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 82, 9 January 1896, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

Sydhbt, January 1. The Colonial Secretary has ; Written to the Governments of the various j colonies, excepting those of Western Australia and New Zealand* inviting a conference of. commandants, to meet here -on the 20th inst, to decide upon, a uniform rifle for the oblonies represented atjthe conference.- . T ''-■ ,-.>*, Sheridan was executed this.- morning, death being instantaneous, .^he. coodemned .man was remarkably -=cppl and composed. He made no statement. . Yesterday the heat. at. Ungfrie registered 125deg., and-at'Cobar-.l2odeg. today. In many of the couatry distnets' bn«h fires are already raging in alldirections. . ' '' ' ■"'- --■ ' ' Bbisbase, January 7. An old man named Siraylha's.-.been arrested for the murder oFa/blacic boy. The aeeufed admitted: that- ha shot the boy beoause he, stole His beef arid fowls. He burned the body owing to the smell attracting ..dingoes, 'which'; howled dismally. ' ;' The gold raturns for the^past year show a decrease of fifty-two\ thousaud ounces. . y ■ '"'_'■'" MeibotJbnb,' January 8. The insolvency record . fort tho past year shows the debts to have,' amounted to L 3. 311,000, compared withiL3,4B3,ooo for tbe preoeeding year. The assets were ;•- L 1,606,000 against L 1,625,000. : ■-■' - •-. . Pbeth, January 1. ■ Intense heat continues. la some places, the thermometer registered 116 deg. in the shade. Two- more deaths from sunstroke are recorded. Hobabt, January 7. A special session of Parliament to deal with the Federal Enabling Sill has opened. ■ •■'- .