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NEWS AND NOTES. The Emperor of Austria died of inflam mation of the lungs on Wednesday. Sergeant White, of the Goulburn police force, has been transferred to Young. ' A proposal is on foot to start a poultry farm at Tumut, with a capital of £5000. Mr. W. E. Oldfield will hold a special horse and cattle sale on December 2. The tender of Mr. S. J. McAppion has been accepted for painting and repairs to the local hospital. Lecture by the.Rev.-David Allan in the Presbyterian Church next Wednesday evening. The proceeds from the recent sports at Hall, in aid of the Red Cross Fund, was £88-a handsome sum indeed. It has been decided to pospone the cele bration of Repatriation Day from Decem ber 15 to a date to be fixed. A petition is going round for signature praying that Parliament may be dissolved, and a general election take place. Mr. R. H. Hunt, of the Goulburn branch of the Bank of New South Wales, has been promoted to the Cobargo branch. The White Star Liner Britannic, 48,000 tons, hospital ship, has been tor pedoed and sunk in the Aegean Sea. There are 1100 survivors, and about 50 missing. The Federal Cabinet has decided that all men called up for compulsory military training, under the recent proclamation be released forthwith. A cabbage weighing 391bs is being ex hibited in the window of the Government Tourist Bureau. It was grown on a farm at Oaklands, near Urana. Thirty-eight persons, with names sug gesting alien decent, were at Junee, before two Justices of the Peace on Tuesday, de clared to be loyal subjects. Some Specials at Young's for to-morrow: Tussore Silks 1111 yard, White Calico 3/11 doz., white aprons 124, pillow cases 12Id. Big line of embroideries at 2/11 doz.*, A woman was fined £41101- at the Cen tral Police Court for attacking a police man with a hatpin in the Domain on Sun day. Furner Bros., auctioneers of Goulburn' will submit to auction at the Goulburn City Yards on Thursday, N.ovember 30, 150 extra good Berkshire pigs. In West Australia the bookmakers, who. were to cease operations on December 1, have been granted an extension of time till June 2. " The Birth of a Nation," coming to the Triumph Pictures on December 15 and 16, represents 5,000 scenes, 18,000 people, 3,000 horses, one gross of cats and a few monkeys. It cost £100,000 to produce. Sale of the late Mr. Wm. McCann's furniture and effects at 2 o'clock to-mor row afternoon. The sale will take place tin the stable yard at the rear of- Mr. Jno. Gale's residence. The girl (his promised wife) Les. Darcy left behind him, in West Maitland, isn t now envied by the other girls in that town. A very few weeks back Darcy might have raffled himself for a big sum. His stock is now at a heavy discount. It has been officially notified that in view of the fact that all exemption court proceedings have been abandoned, it will not now be necessary for persons who have been called upon to attend these courts to do so. The Gundagai Independent asserts that a " Hard-up Ball" given at Griffith was a great success. The-ladies wore dresses of bran-bags, the gents appeared without collars, the hall was decorated with chaff bags, and the ham sandwiches were made of brown paper. A South Coast lad writing to his father from France says : " Everyone I have spoken to from the 30th know the two Chapmans. The boys tell me they are the best liked officers in the Battalion and most efficient too-anyone of them would follow them to h-, if they would only say the word." Some of our soldiers abroad have been sending home to their relatives sprigs of a chestnut ttee which they say have been taken from the historic " spreading chest nut" mentioned in Longfellow's. poem, "The Village Blacksmith." Evidently someone has been getting hold of our boys by the "puttees" as by reference to a para graph elsewhere it will be gleaned that the tree has long since been destroyed. Mr. James, the new Minister for Public instruction, reached his 50th birthday a few days ago. He was born in this State, and is a son of the Rev. George James, a well-known Methodist minister. Mr. James had completed a quarter of a century's practice as a member of the N.S.W. Bar when he became' a Cabinet Minister. He secured his B.A. in 1888 at the Sydney University. In the District Court, the jury awarded Annie Gribble, of Annandale, £50 damages against Henry George Weine, a carter, who, it is stated, came along and started to remove portion of her washing from a line to allow a cart to pass. When she objected he seized her by the- throat, and also punched her face. Defendant said she rushed at him like a bullock, and all he did was to defend himself. Mrs. Norton's application for adequate provision to be made for her out of the estate of the late John Norton was con cluded on Monday. His Honor directed the trustees of the will to pay Mrs. Nor ton a lump sum of £1380 to liquidate debts incurred by her since her husband's death. The Court also ordered that Mrs. Norton be paid £25 a week and £3a week for the education of her son Ezra. This is a strange year as far as the weather is concerned. Residents of half a century and over say they never remem ber a November like this. Winter cold is with us when the spring is merging into summer. Yet it is not without precedent. We can remember a year when the cold was so intense at Christmas time that fires were necessary. Good seasons followed, and there is no doubt they will come again. The weather we are having now goes to prove that Clement Wragge was not far wrong when he forecasted good seasons from 1917. The late Mr. Patrick Coffey, whose tragic death wre reported in Tuesday's issue, was born in North Melbourne 45 years ago. When a mere youth he came to Captain's Flat, where he married Miss Pola on January 22nd, 1894. Mr. Cof fey's father conducted a bakery there. Having learnt the trade (with his brother William), the deceased continued to carry on his father's business very successfully until the copper mines petered out or closed down and the aminers left for other fields. Essentially a manof great business capacity, he launched out as a hotel keeper at Jembaicumbene, where he remained for a couple of years. Later oni he took pos. session of the Royal Hotel, Braidwood, Innumerable acts of kindness are placed to the credit of the deceased. An incident occurred quite recently at Braidwood, re calling how a man down on his luck years ago was assisted by Mr. Coffey. "Good day 1" said the stranger, as he brushed his way through a crowd in an hotel parlor. " Don't you know me P Well, you ought to, for many a loaf of bread I got from you at Captain's Flat, and never paid for it." This incident was typical of the de ceased. "Pat" was generous to a fault all the days of his lifo.