YESTERDAY’S CABLES

Southland Times, Issue 12768, 29 November 1893, Page 2

YESTERDAY’S CABLES

British and Foreign LONDON, Nov. 27. The net profits on the Chicago World’s Fair amounted to 1,800,000 dollars. Exhibitors sold L 2,000,000 worth of goods. Many deaths from influenza have occurred in Gsrmany, and many are ill in England. Frequent collisions between the strikers and freemen have occurred on the Lehigh (Pennsylvania) railway, and the military have been summoned to keep order. Australian ""SYDNEY, Nov. 28. Sir Geo. Dibbs announces that the Government intend to oppose the third reading of the Abolition of School Fees Bill, as they regard the measures in the light of an electioneering cry. He further declares that the Government do not intend to drop a single measure they have in hand, consequently, it will be impossible for the session to close before Christmas. The Government have decided to construct a tunnel through the Blue Mountains, at a cost of a quarter of a million, thus doing away with the celebrated great zigzag which, though a stupendous engineering feat, is the reverse of economical from a railway point of view. The Cabinet has considered the petition for the reprieve of Bertie Glasson, the Carcoar double murderer, which restates the plea of; insanity set up at the trial. Glasson adheres to the story he originally told the police that he was in the bank but that he was coerced to go there by others. The Cabinet has decided that it sees no cause to interfere with the sentence. The execution takes place to-morrow. Mr Barton emphatically declares that the Federation Fill will be introduced into the House of Assembly before the termination of the session. The Lambton coal mine is idle owing to the refusal of the wheelers to work, consequent on several of its members having been fined for a breach of the rules. In the face of the keen distress existing, the men affected show considerable irritation at the action of the wheelers. A meeting of the Butter Export Association has endorsed the suggestion that in view of the collapse of the London butter market, the pro rata charge (bonus ?) of a farthing per lb be increased to a halfpenny per lb. An analysis of the Cremorne (Sydney) coal shows that it is a good household coal and excellent for steaming purposes. A Chinaman who was a passenger by the mail train from Bourke, was robbed and thrown out of the carriage window. He was picked up insensib’e. Two arrests have been made. BRISBANE, Nov. 28. Much damage has been caused in the city by a hurricane. Nearly every window at Goodna was broken by hail, and crops in the district were severely damaged. MELBOURNE, Nov. 28. The intercolonial shooting match, which in future will be known as the Fedeial match, was won by Victoria with 1419 points, New South Wales 1415, South Australia 1397, Tasmania 1332, West Australia 1328. New Zealand and Queensland did not compete. Stack, of Sydney, made 49 out of a possible 50 at 500 yards range. The Minister of Trade and Customs is inquiring into the effect it would have on the revenue if the proposal to make Melbourne a free port of entry were carried out. Last year the pilotage, tonnage and dues on vesssls arriving in ballast was a trifle over i LI 000.

Justice Hood has granted an application to make a call in the Anglo-Australian Bink, though he said it was scarcely worth while making it as the liquidator stated he expected to get only L 275 out of a total liability of L 150,000. ADELAIDE, Nov. 28. The Government butter expert considers that there is little cause for apprehension of a collapse in the London market, and that if a fall occurs it will only be a slight one. Mr Woods, M L.A., has requested the police to investigate the bigamy charge against him. The authorities here are consequently communicating with the English authorities on the subject.

~ As a result) of a discussion in the House on the importation of Chinese, the Orient Co has decided to introduce no more Chinese passengers from Colombo. PERTH, Nov. 27. A police party has discovered magnificent pastoral country, well grassed, watered and timbered in the vicinity [of Osmond river. The blacks, it is stated, are the finest, physically, in the colony, but extremely hostile. A half-caste,-supposed to be a descendant of one of Leichhardt’s party was found in one of the tribes.