CABLEGRAMS.

Western Star, Issue 2003, 13 April 1895, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

EIOMK AND FOREIGN " I'RKSS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAMS. London Lord Brassry lias been created G.C.M.G. At a meeting of North Crcoius mine shareholders the chairman said the reports of the temporary manager did not confirm the statements in the prospectus, and they were now awaiting independent testimony as to the value of the mine.

The vote of thanks to the retiring Speaker was carried unanimously, the Irish party joining in the eulogies. Conntess Russell, during her evidence in an application for restoration of conjugal rights, apologised for the charges against Roberts in connection with her husband made twelve months ago. Lord Fingal has wired to his attorney that he has no suspicion that the Londonderry mine is swindle and that terms advantagecjß to the shareholders have already been made regarding seven-tenths of the vendors' profits and he hoped that the Australian holders of the remaininc three-tenths would act similarly. The profit on the sale of the mine would, he thought, be £350,000. Mr David Murray has given £2OO to the Bimetallic League guarantee fund.

It is officially announced that Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton has been appointed Governor of South Australia. The Budget will be delivered ou 2nd May.

Should the Parnellite party support Sir M W Ridley for the Speakership the Government will expect a raajority.

Several free libraries in the United -Hates are destroying the works of Oscar Wilde.

It is said that unless an indemnity is paid Great Britain will soize the Nicaraguan Customs until the claim is liquidated. It is believed that the United States Government acquiesces. The offers of several Indian princes to assist in suppressing Umrakhau in Chitral haye been partially accepted. The Japanese authorities have seized at Taku the British steamer Yink Sang, which-is alleged to . have been carrying arms for the Chinese. The evidence collected by the commission to inquire into the Armenian atrocities confirm the published accounts of the brutality of the Turkish sol-liery v INTERCOLONIAL. - t , Melbouene. The Argus has a severe article on the jury in the Dean poisoning case » as being brow beaten into finding a verdict of guilty, and says it is very remarkable that Macauley's words describing Judge Jeffrey's brutal conduct at the trial of Alice Lisle exactly fits the present case, and the parallel between the closing scenes o£ both trials may bring home to Judge Windeyei-'s mind that a judge is grossly transgressing his duty when he employs any kind of coercion to force a verdict. ; , The Full Court; has ordered the Eloward-Smith Co to pay £3058, being the expense incurred by_the Government in removing, the wreck of the steamer Gambier from the fairway in Port Phillip. The company defended the action on the ground that having handed over the wreck to the underwriters they were not liable.

Sydney.

Much attention has been drawn to the case of Dean, sentenced to death for attempting to poison his wife. The chief attention has been through Judge Windeyex's direction to the jury. The latter, after eight hours' deliberation, not having arrived at a verdict, the Judge .informed them that the issue was so clear that he thought he must have failed to make himself plain, and added that if they did not arrive at a verdict they would be locked up from Saturday night until Monday morning. The jury thereupon returned in seven minutes with a verdict of " Guilty," with a recommendation to mercy. The Daily Telegraph in reviewing the case says public opinion, expressed through the usual channels, utterly fails to support either the responsible verdict of the jury or the remarks of* the judge, who declared himself-as satisfied that Dean had committed the crime as if he had seen him with his own eyes. The paper considers that the jury's verdict was literally, taken out of the judge's mouth. Further developments have taken place as regards the New A ustralia project, Casey, one of the pro-, moters, states that when Head, tary of the old association, peared he left Thomas Hall in charge of the Sydney, office wit'i a power of attorney to deal with the property of the association. A few days a«*o Casey ascertained that the keys of the office were lying in a labour newspaper office addressed t> him. He thereupon visited Head's office accompanied by a solicitor, when they discovered nothing but an empty safe; all the property, books, records, deeds and securities were mi.ssing. Before Head disappeared he supplied Casey with an approximate statement from which it appearnd that the assets of the association exceeded the liabilities by £3OOO. This included the value of the barque Royal Tar, landed property, bank scrip, office fitting?, and other items Casey says tm had ' negotiations with Head *r.e handing i over the property to him as represen?. tative of the new association, but no, agreement was arrived at, Head re» maining in possession? When <ha latter disappeared Casey says he had. no idea where the property or deeds had gone, and adds that it was im 3 possible to ascertain the value as he

never had been allowed to examine the books of the association.