INTERCOLONIAL.

Mataura Ensign, Issue 215, 14 November 1896, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

Brisbane, November 12. The three supposed French escapees, who were recently iJni^sfced, escaped from Cooktown lock-up by cutting through the floor. * An Englishman, Victor Parr, ran amuck, at Toowomba. He fired a revolver to the right and left at folk, but missed his mark every time, although a constable had an exceedingly narrow escape. When the police eventually captured the man, he placed the revolver to his own head and blew out his brains. ' t,~ Perth, November 12. An immense reef formation, besides good gold, nickel and cobalt, has been struck in the Empress of Coolgardie mine. Hobaht, November 12. A fishing boat capsized in the Derwent, and two men, Young and Bucher, were drowned. Sydney, November 12. Dr Wyatt Gill, one of the pioneer missionaries of the London Missionary Society in the South Seas, is dead. The Assembly have decided in favor of holding an international exhibition in 1899." The Premier estimated the net cost to the colony at between £100,000 ,- and ,£125,000; Mrs McTavish : ■ " Hech me ! Mrs McNab, but yir lookin' sair forfoughten." Mrs McNab : " An 1 nae wunner. Polishin' that furniture for twa hale days ; an' it's no a bit nicer." Mrs McTavish : " Hoots, wummin ! use McKenzie's Polish. A bit dicht ower wi' a saft rag an' yir furaiture^s polished like new ! Government House haWt."— [Advt.] ■•..,.-■■■•'.■■■.■- - . . - - % ■■