INTERCOLONIAL.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 214, 12 November 1896, Page 6

INTERCOLONIAL.

Adelaide, November 10. The first load of new'wheat sold at 5s 6d. The crop yielded five bushels per acre, but this is considered to be much the average. Heaping is becoming general throughout the colony, ond the crops in some districts are turning out better than was expected. Sydney, November 10. Dr Wynne, who has bean investigating the tick plague on behalf of tho Government there, has submitted his report, in which he states that the tick is infested with various parasites, hut the experiments failed to show the isolated particular parasite which produces Texas fever from the parasite itself. The latter, he says, merely acts as a vehicle for inoculating the animal with fever, and adds that there is now every probability, by subcutaneous injection, the constituents of which will shortly be published, that fatal effects will be prevented. Dr Wynne has recommended the Queensland Government to carry out experiments on a large scale, and, if effective, the remedy will be cheap and easy of application. In conclusion, he states that there is a great danger of the disease spreading into New South Wales, and fears that there will be greater mortality among the cattle in Queensland than there was last year. At the Band contest the championship was won by the Newton Band, the Hobart Garrison being second. It is understood that the winners will compete at the Wellington Exhibition contest. The Marine Board has deferred its decision regarding the wreck of the mission steamer, Euyspring. Melbourne, November 11. A divorce case, Lake v. Lake, in which ;£3OOO damages were claimed against the co-respondent, Short, has engaged the attention of the Court for some time. The Chief Justice dismissed the petition on the ground that the evidence suggested that the whole was a concoction. Brisbane, November 11. Battersby, member for Moreton, caused a painful scene in the Assembly by his persistent disorderly conduct, and was eventually suspended, the labor party, with three exceptions, voting against it. A letter from the Government Besident in Northern Territory has exploded the idea that ticks were introduced into the territory by buffaloes. These animals are found to be entirely free from the pest.