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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1315, 13 May 1897, Page 21

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London, May 10. The capital of £350,000. of Millars’ Karri and Jarrah Forests Company, formed for the developing of the Westralian timber trade, has hqen over-subscribed. Mr R. W. Richards, Sydney’s City Surveyor, who recently' visited the principal Continental cities, states that the abattoirs at Berlin are the finest model establishments o.f the kind he has seen. The street cleaning is splendidly carried out, but costly. Electric lighting on the Continent is not making progress. The incandescent system is regarded as satisfactory. With regard to electric trams, he found the accumulator system a costly one, and not likely to supersede the system of overhead wires for tramcars. The authorities of Hamburg desire to procure Australian sleepers at 4s 6d. The municipal engineer at Paris is negotiating for the supply of hard wood for street paving purposes. New York, May 10. By a fire on board" the Mallory Line steamer Leona, on the voyage from New York to Galveston, Texas, 13 persons were suffocated. The officers, with loaded revolvers in their hands, compelled 18 stokers who attempted to desert the burning vessel to resume work. Brisbane, May 10. The Government bacteriologist reports that the results of the tick inoculation experiments show that the inoculation diminishes the susceptibility of the disease in adult animals. He believes that if the animals were inoculated at their birth they would be free from the disease, and.

that the micro-organism of the tick fever finds a permanent home in the blood of cattl© and that, once infected, they will infallibly transmit the organisms to their progeny. He is confident that he is on the right track to make the Australian cattle free fr©m the tick fever. Sydney, May 11. The Butler case has assumed a new phase. Counsel on behalf of Butler has applied to the Full Court for a rule nisi, calling on the proprietors of two morning and two evening- newspapers to show cause why writsof attachment should notissue for contempt of Court for publishing on April 28th remarks, statements and illustrations in reference to the murders with which Butler is charged. In his affidavit Butler submitted that the action of the newspapers was calculated to interfere with the course of justice, and prejudice the public against him. The Chief Justice said that anything calculated to interfere with the course of justice could not be published, but so much good sense and regard for the administration of justice had been shown by the press that he did not think lie need make any order in regatd to that. The rule was granted subject to an affidavit being filed that the committal of Butler took place on April 27th, and was mado returnable on Thursday. A fire rtTamworth destroyed a hotel, the public hall and several business places. The damage is estimated at from ,£15,000 to £20,000. Mr Brunker has been appointed Acting Colonial Treasurer during Mr Reid’s absence in England-. A milk-cart capsized at Newcastle, and a man named Cronin and a boy named Fallen were killed. The fourth child of the Roberts family, who was rescued from a burning house on Monday, is dead. Cooper was the name of the rescuer who perished. Adelaide, May 11. Parliament meets on June 10th. The Treasurer hopes to announce a surplus of at least £20,000 on the year’s operations. Per nr, May 11. Mr H. B. Lefroy has accepted the new portfolio of Education. This makes the sixth portfolio in the Ministry.