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.'?NEWS OF TEE DAY.

FROH one of our cablegrams of this morning it «auld appear that Juaneo is anxious to renow nego. Lons with Great Britain for a commercial treaty,

i to this end has ollcrod to abato still further hor Landa in regard to duties upon woollen goode. It waa on tlio question of tho dutioa to bo imposed

cotton and woollen goods that differences aroso on L «art of the commissioners which ultimately led to ?te utter collapBe o£ the negotiations; andas Franco ihowa a willingness to mako further concessions, «eine the importance of tho English market to her, tho matter may again he relogated to a commission »presenting tho two POWOIB, with a better result than More, The news from Ireland is still of a dis icounHng character. Fifteen members of a new mK°society, calling themselves "The Marauders," Hivo been "arrested. They wero betrayed by their header, who lately fell into tho hands of tho police. At fcork á largo seizure of arms and dynamite has boen Bide. A lettor in tho Times proposes the registration of colonial stock, as a now fixed investment, AVith legard to onoof the leading measures to ho submitted k the Imperial Government to Parliament in tho comin" session, that for tho adoption of a modified ifortn °of tho clôture for preventing obstruction, it '.ppeara tho Cabinet is divided upon it, and that it Ivas only decided to place it upon the programmo by a

-very narrow majority.

WE yesterday announced tho arrival of the Pacific Hail Company's steamship Zcalandia at Auckland vyith the English mails via San Francisco to Docenibor 1. Through Router's agency wo have received the Zealandia's passongcr list, as follows :-Mr. and Mrs. White, ¡Mrs. Head, lîov, - Boyeo, Messrs. Mandel, ïroude, Jonf>3, Mr. and Mrs. Marks, and Miss Hastings. The two passengers 6uOVring from smallpox wero landed at Auckland. From our own correspondent wo learn that the Zoahmdia is to sail for Sydnoy at daylight this (Thursday) morning. Sbo may therefore bo aspected hero on Monday morning.

Sir. Jons ROBEIWVJOX, accompanied hy Mr. John Davies and the lion. S. II. Terry, left by ordinary train last night for Wallerawang, mt route to Mudgee.

THE first of tho railway locomotives mado by the Atlas Engineering Company, under a contract to supply the Government with dS onginss, was sucoosefully tested yeaterday on tho line between Redfern station god Parramatta. In tho course q£ somo remarks mado .at the luncheon on the occasion by the Commisuionor of IUihuys, he stated that he anticipated that the Waneing of our railway returns for last year would «bow a profit o£ considerably more than 4 per cent, apon the capital expended, and ho would be very much astonished if tho returns did not reach 5 per cent.

THE election of a member of the Legislative As- sembly to represent tho district of Redfern and to fill tho vacancy caused by the appointment of the lion. ,T. ißutherland to the Legislative Council, took place yos iterday, when Mr. F. A. "Wright was returnod by a majority of 885 votes. Mr. Wright polled 1701 and

Mr. Williamson 819 votes.

TUB Hon. Sir. G. W. Allen, Speaker of the Logis dativo Assembly, has mado the following arrangements for the election of a member to serve in tho Legislative Assembly of New South Wales, for the electoral, dis- trict of Tenterfield, in the room of Mr. John Dillon re aigncd:-Place of nomination, Tenterfield; date of wit, STonday, 9th January, 1882 ; dato of nomination, ¡May, 27th January; polling day, Monday, Oth Feb- ruary; return of writ, Monday, 20th February,

There is nothing fresh to report in the way of smallpox so far as Sydney is concerned. The report of the Board of Health for yesterday states.-" The following patients were visited by the Government   medical staff on the 10th instant, and are reported as progressing favourably :-Elizabeth Henna, Glebe street, Glebe; Henry Horsey, '145, Livorpool-streot ;

¡and Albert Sinclair, 58, Duke-street, Woolloomooloo.

Mrs. Palmer gave birth to a male child on the morning ,cf the 10th instant ; the child is healthy, and they aro loth doing well. The medical auporintendont o£ tho Coast Hospital and Sanatorium reports that Mrs. Yates passed a good night, and is now out of danger. Clara and Albert Corderoy aro improving, and were allowed apfo? a couple o£ 'hours to-day. All other patients sis nearly well. All inmates of the Sanatorium are in l^ood health, with the exception of Thomas Lambert, mentioned last night, and he ia the same aBthon reported. Tho following persons were released from the Sana- torium this afternoon-Alice Sadler, Winifred Kennedy, and Elizabeth McGee, of 23, Charles-streot ;   Louisa Cox and Captain Dalton's infant, of 42, Forbes street. The house of Mr. Soulby, of 11, Church-street,

Pyrmont, was released this afternoon."

We are informed that the Board of Health, after  

careful examination of tho quarantine station by its medical members, has certified to the Colonial

Treasurer that the passengers of the steamship Garonne may with safety, as regards their health, be landed at the station and housed in the buildings provided for them in the healthy ground. The board has also certified that all small-pox   patients have been removed both from the   quarantine station and the ship Faraway and transferred to the Coast Hospital at Little Bay.   Arrangements havo been made both by the agents of the steamer and the Government for the

comfort of the passengers when landed, and a medical nan has been appointed to toke oharge. It is confi- dently expected by the boaid that no complaints will brise under the improved management at the station. ¡Every faoility will bo afforded lor tho dischargo of the

í»rgo of the Garonne, which, under certain restrictions for the preservation of the publio health, will be per- mitted to be landed in lightors while tho ship is in quarantine, thus avoiding delay to tho consignees. A telegramhas been received from the Victorian authorities intimating that the Garonne left Melbourne with a modified bill of health, and without any known disease Km board, and after a thoiough cleansing of the hospital M other parts of tho ship whore patients had boen touted, Under these circumstances it is not improb- able that the ptogross of the disenso may bo arrested, Wd the visit of the Garonne to this port not bo pro jdnctivo of tho seiious consequences that were at first Mutcipated. The Garonno is expected to arrive this «norning. She will at once go into quarantine.

' Mr. It, H, BtrnsETT, who since Soptembor, 1878> pas filled the position of locomotive engineer in the department of Public Works, has finally resigned his

¡appointment.

As inquiry into the circumstancos connected with joe wrecks the etsarner Wotonga, on the morning of «he _nd instant, was commenced yesterday by the .Hanno Board. The captain and tho chief officer wqro (examined '> but °s their evidenoe was contradictory, and K, jM"monT o£ the second mate-who is at present at Port Macquarie-ia required, the further hearing of jina caso was postponed until Monday next at 2.15 p.m. fino board asked that in the meantime the evidence {already taken should not be published.

THE practice of people getting out of tram cars, and «wn out of railway carriages, whilst in motion is one inat ia always attended with a great deal of dangor. a low weeks ago a passenger named M. E. Meyers quitted a tram car whilst it was in motion, and re- ceived some injuries of a rather severe nature. Yes- terday he waB brought bof ore the Water Police Court on a charge of leaving the tram whilst it waa in motion,

«id was finod 40s.

Ju?2..3*8* n' Pa*Mr,Bon,of Miller's Point, gave an

»»resting and eloquent lecture on the evils of in. »mperance and the necessity of total abstinence, in the MwTamperance Hall, PitMw* last night Thara

»Malarge attendance.

rwíiI\TtÍDB,°r£ the Aït Society of New South Comll nw« M°?day evenin6 last' Mr- EdT"d th7mlu '??' PMaldiDg. it -was resolved to invite

KA ïid in by th6 l8t o£ Mftynext desis^ «m A,,^,W-hlte "atw medium fora Pâture of ïeAftT BUbjeok- A Promium °£ twenty Edi J be award<>* for BU<* dcsiSias maybe S to «,!UltabJ° .*" 'cP«ion for présenta Won ;" Bubacn°«n> to the society's next art «Sion to r^n ^ith tb0 third annual wZviiiî,l)0.»laeld *» Ootob«r next. The *WtM? sel6cto4 *» 1» fiw ptoperty of tho society.

Mr. Glarson having tendered his resignation as honorary secretary, and as some difficulty has been experienced for a long time pnst in getting the secretarial dutioB satisfactorily performed, it was determined to appoint Mr. Gooroo Read as clerk, to attend to tho detail busi- ness of tho society, at a small remuneration; and Mr. James Dalgarno, of the committee, lia-. unde>r this arrangement consented to dovoto as much t'me as ho can spare to the performance of the duties of honorary secretary. It is bohoved that this chango will secure a moro prompt attention to tho business of the society than it has hitherto been possible to secure. Mr. Smedley, architect of this city, .and an exhi- bitor of many pictures at the last Exhibition, has ac- cepted a seat on tho committee in lieu of Mr. Thomas Phillips, deceased. Parliament having voted £2i)0 in aid of tho society, it waa rosolvod that application should at once bu made io the Minister for Education to enable the nmount to be available for the society's use. It is intondpd to utili-0 the room at the Garden Palaco for the benofit of'the members as early as po'siMo, some proposals on ,the subject having already been discussed by tho committee.

OUR Moss Yale correspondent writes:-"The fact that tho Government havo purchased ' Hillview,' lato tho residence of R. P. Richardson, Esq., of Sutton Forest, as a summer residence for the present and future governors, is causing considerable commotion amongst tho landed propi ¡elora in and around Moss Vule and Sutton Forest. Tho property con- sists of 117 acres, the grounds immediately around tho residenco being planted with choice and woll-grown ornamental treos, and being a high hill, a grand view is obtained of the country around ; £G000 was the price paid, and it is authoritatively statod that a considerable sum will he expended in erecting a suitable residence on the sito of the present ono. In the meantime it is rumoured that the residence of Mr. A. Tange, in the same neighbourhood, will ho leased as a temporary residenco until the new one is completed. Sineo this purchase several Sydney gen- tlemen havo been inspecting properties in the locality with a view to purchasing ; and on Monday last the Hon. AV. B. Dallev purchased Rookmoor, the property of Mr. P. M. Giles, p£ Sutton Forest." .

A conREsro>-Dr.NT, who signs himself " Neptune," writes as follows :-" Some years ago the! public had an opportunity on,-Saturday afternoons of taking a cheap and exceedingly pleasant trip outside itho Heads. Of late these opportunities have not boen available. Would it not pay to run one of the company's boats, say, from half-past 2 until 0, at a charge of 2s. 6d. for each passenger ? Many would cheerfully pay this,and the trip would 1» enjoyed vastly." '

AN autograph letter of Dr. John Kitto, the author of "The Lost Senses," addressed to Dr. Ryland, of Northampton, has boon presented by Mr. John Plummer to the Sydney Institution for tho Deaf, Dumb, and Blind.

THE birds of Australia havo cortainly never had a bettor delineator than Mr. Novillo Cayley, aevoral of whose pictures wo havo already had occasion to notice, and now Mr. Cayley has finished another pair of water colour paintings which show his work at its best. In the first is seen a kookaburra, or laughing jackass, perched on the highest branch of a withered treo, nnd sharply outlined against a cloud-flecked Sky. In ita beak tho bird holdB a writhing centipode, and the burnish of the insect's 6caly joints is paiDted with no le6S accuracy than the delicately tinted plumago of his captor. The poso of tho bird is finely characteristic, and the introduc- tion of the dead branch does away with tho noeessity for a foreground, so that there is nothing to distract attention from the subject. The other picture bhows a falcon perched on a rocky point beside a lake, and holding in one of its talonB a dead robin. In this, too, the bush work is unusually good, and both the hawk and the robin are perfectly painted. The piotures aro on view at Messrs. Nicholson and Ashcrberg'e music warehouse, George-street.

Tnn building which was partially destroyed by fire in Eli/abeth-slreot on Tuesday night is insured in the Australian Mutual office. This uro, as several others have done, mado apparent a very serious defect in regard to the water supply, which the civic authorities will do wall to pay attention to. It seems that thero was some delay in getting the first engine that arrived to work because tho liremen could not find the plug connecting with the water main, Formerly tho various plugs in the city wore indicated by marks on houses opposite to them, so that firemen could in tho shortest space of time ascertain their whereabouts. But (heso indications have ceased to be made of late. The placing of au index on thokeibätono or on the buildings opposite to a plug seems to bo a very simple matter, and if attended to would piobably, by enabling firemon to got more quickly to work, eave much destruction of property. Another ob.taolo to the proper working of the No. 2 Company's engine on Tuesday night arose through the plug being so near to the tramline. The men, conse- quently, could work only on one side of the engine, and thus it worked with a diminished motive power. The engine that arrived third at the scene of the fire was the No. 2 Brigade's, from the George-street Markets, not the Haymarket. The No. 2 Y. F. 0. had no engine in Phillip-street, and of course it was not their engine that took so long to got to work and then directod a stream of .water in the wrong diiection.

Tun dead body of William John Bond, who resided with his son William Bond, landlord of the Captain Cook hotol, Kent-street North, was found yesterday morning, at about 2 o'clock, floating ia tho water at Towns' AVharf, off Kent-btreet north. He was last seen alive at the wharf at 10 o'dook on the previous oven ing. The deceased was a native of London, and 62 1 years of ago.

TnitEE Chinese firemen of the steamship City of New York were brought up at the AArater Police Court yes- terday on a charge of having evaded the provisions' of the Chinese Restriction Act by landing in the colony

without paying the poll-tax of £10. The men'carno j ashore ia a boat on Tuesday evening, and landed at Dawo3 Point, when they were given into eustody by a Custom House officer. Each of the, offenders was adjudged to pay a fine of £10, and also an entranco fee of £10, and, in default, was ordered to be imprisoned

for twelve months.

SOME surprise (says the .¿trgus) was manifested in the bay on Monday morning at the non-appearance of tho ship Melanopo, from Liverpool, which was notified as having passed Capo Otway on Sunday afternoon, and which was èxpeotod to reach the anchorage at daybreak, A telegram from tho Heads, announcing that she was aground on tue Popo's Eye Bhoal, fully accounted for her not coming up. It was inferred from the intelli- gence received that eho would be got off eabily on tho next tide, but although two powerful tugs tried to move her, the effort was without any satis- factory result, and it is now evident that she will have to bo lightened of her oargo to some extent. The Melanope has been somewhat unfortunate in her enroor, having been dismasted on her first voyage. The Melanope, whioh is a vessel of 1086 tons, belongs to the same line as the Antiope, Caesiopo, Parthonope, Marpesia, and other ships, all of which are well known in this port. AVith regard to her present position, it may he mentioned that the Melanope was boarded by pilot Loissoan at half-past 9 p.m. on Sunday evening, with the wind easterly. She got through the Rip all right, and mado for the South Channel. On account of the strong tide the pilot decided on letting go the starboard anchor, and about 45 fathoms of ohain were paid out. Tho ship dragged, however, and parted this anchor before the port anchor could bo let go. The ship then took the ground on the port sido aft. Nothing further then could be done until daylight, when the captain signalled to Queenscliff for assistance. The services of the tugs Albatross and Roscuo were engaged, and at 3 p.m, they went to work to take advantage of tho tide. Tfro ship, however, was too hard and fast, and their united efforts were of no avail, The only course loft waa to lighten the ship, and the steam togs returned to the bay on Monday evoning for the purpose of towing down lighters to take, outotffgo. Captain Watson came up in the Alba- tross to make the necessary arrangements.

Tan Macleay ' Herald reports the death of a fino boy,'nine years old, son of Mr. Saunders, of Kinchela Creek. An elder brother, a boy 11 years of age, got possession of a gun that was standing in a bedroom and carried it outside to the rear of some banana trees ; he then placed the head of a lucifer match on the nipple, and drew the trigger so as to snap the match with the hammor ol the gun. On placing a second match and snapping it oil' in tho same mannor, the gun went off, the muzzle being pointed directly at the head of a younger brother, who was sitting on the ground

with his back against a water trough. 'One-half of the ' head of tho deceased was blown away, his brains being

scattered all about the ground and trough ; pieces of the bono were driven some distance away. Death was instantaneous. The gun was only charged wiLh powder and a larjre wad of brown paper ; it had been loaded Romo monthb and tho in&idu of the barrel was a good

deal rusted.

Tun Hobart correspondent of the LaunccUon Exam- iner reports that " Mr. A. E. Jamieson, coronor and warden of New Norfolk, was drowned nu December 28 in crossing the Derwent on his return from holding an inquest at Macquarie Plains. A boy was rowing him across tho river in a boat, hotwecn 4 and 5 o'clock, and when in midstream a severe squall struck them. Mr. Jamieson took off his overcoat, and jumped into the water, which was not too deep to provent him touching the bottom, although it was over his chest, lie hold on to tho boat for a littlo while, but tho enrrent was vory swift, and when he let go, he was carried down the stream. Mr. Jamieson wa» a

good swimmer, but the Btream was vory strong, with a rapid immediately below the scene of the fatal accident, and the boy saw him throw up his arms, and disappear. The lad managed to get ashore in the boat, but he was too much excited to bo able to give a clear account of tho lamentable 'occurrence. Tho body was found at noon.aboutSO yards from thespotwhcrothojquallcaught the boat. The deceased gentleman was 57 years of age, and was horn in tho Now Norfolk district, whore he has held the position of warden ever since tho establish- ment of municipal government."

WE learn from a New Zealand paper that at the inquest on the body of Mrs. Anthony, who was killed by the explosion of chemicals at Wellington, Dr. Diver's theory was that Mrs. Anthony was scraping out the mortar with some hard instrument, ' and so causod ignition and explosion. A vcrdiot was returned of "accidental death," and the following rider was added :-" That tho attention of Government be callod to tho fact of large quantities of dangerously explosive powder being mixed np in the city and sold without any steps being taken to regulato or limit such sale."

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