AUSTRALIAN.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 44685, 21 July 1906, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, July 20.

A telephone boy who sent a message from Flemington on Saturday altered the Footscray Steeplechase winner from Error to Blue Jacket, and the tote shops paid bets on it. The boy confessed that a man formerly employed in the Postal Department had induced him to send the wrong name, promising him £'20. When he met the man to receive the money he was told that somebody had made trouble, and the boy could not have it.

The horse Windy, which was recently sold, goes to India, but he will be raced in Melbourne first.

A bootmaker named Petersen, has been bequeathed £40,000 by a brother, a resident of Denmark.

The Morayshire had a tempestuous voyage.

Freemantle, July 20.

Arrived — R.M.S. Orotava. Passeagers for Now Zealand are: Messrs Heaton, Hunter and wife, and infant,

Sydney, July 20.

Over one hundred stovemakers employed by Metfeers and Company, Newtown. have struck as a protest against, the introduction of piece instead of day work.

The thermometer at Sydney this morning registered 29, the lowest July reading for eleven years. In the higher surburbs exposed water was thickly coated with ice.

Of 1219 candidates for the University examinations 845 passed.

The Magistrate decided in connection with the "two-up school" prosecution that the military reserve was not a "place" under the Gambling Suppression Act. ,