Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Thursday 12 June 1884, page 5


The seat of the local board of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, rendered vacant by the resignation of the Hon. Jas. F. Garrick, consequent upon his departure for England, has been offered to, and accepted by, Mr Graham L. Hart, of the firm of Hart, Mein, and Flower, solicitors of this city. Mr. Hart's long residence in Brisbane, and the apprecia-tion in which he is held by so many, both in and out of the colony, combined with his well-known business capacity, eminently fit him for the office of director on the board of the Queensland branch of this old-established and prosperous society.

RIFLE clubs are increasing in our midst, or bid fair to do so. All interested in the forma-tion of an Irish rifle club are requested to attend a meeting which is to be held at the Imperial Hotel on Saturday evening.

The following adjudications were made in Chambers yesterday, before Mr Justice Hard-ing - William Geering, of Roma, plasterer ; Carl Otto Sjoberg, of Kingsborough, miner ; W. R Lawson, of Charters Towers, publican ; William Mclntosh, of Charters Towers, engine

driver.

A notification signed by the Hon. R B Sheridan, and dated 11th instant, announces that the requirement of a special endorsement on correspondence for and from the United Kingdom and the Continent of Europe has been withdrawn, and all mail matter posted without special superscription and obviously intended to go by the first steamer will be so sent with-out regard to the route or line of packets em-ployed. Correspondence will be sent via Torres Straits, unless otherwise specially marked, when mails by the other routes close on the

same day.

A MEETING of the members of the Anglo-Queensland Football Association was held at the Queen's Hotel on Tuesday night last, at which a good proportion of members at-tended. Mr. Wearne was voted to the chair. After the confirmation of the minutes of the previous meeting, it was decided that a selection committee of three should select the teams for all club matches ; that the captain (Mr. Princeps) and the honorary secretary (Mr Sharp) should be empowered by the club to deal with the representatives of other clubs of the association with regard to arrangement of matches during the ensuing season. It is understood that matches on Queen's Park will be fixed by drawing lots as usual. Six new members were proposed and unanimously elected. A moonlight practice match for this (Thursday) evening was arranged with the Rangers' Club, which should prove very interesting, if only for its novelty. The meet-ing terminated with a vote of thanks to the

chairman

In the Supreme Court in Chambers yester-day morning, before his Honour Mr Justice Harding, in the matter of Stansfield v. Herberton Tin Smelting Company, an interpleader summons, the Sherilf renewed application. Mr. Lilley, for claimant, applied for a winding up order. Order made for goods to be sold and money to be paid into court, to be recovered at Townsville Circuit Court. In the matter of the Kilkivan Extended Tunnelling Company. This was an application for an order against the persons on list of contributors to enforce calls. Order accordingly ; further proceedings adjourned until 30th July. Similar applications were made in the matters of the West Coast Long Tunnel Company and No. 3 West Coast Long Tunnel Company, and similar orders were made. In the matter of Martin Keogh, Mr Flower applied to have the amount of the sureties decreased by one-half, and an order was made that the bond of the administratrix would be allowed in the amount of £2600, and the bond of the London Guarantee and Accident Society as surety for £1300. In the matter of Edwards v. Pill and another, Mr Chambers applied for judgment ; order accordingly. In the estate of Thomas Machel, of Brisbane, Mr Durvall, curator, applied for an order to administer ; order accordingly.

A private letter received in Melbourne from the Most Rev. Dr. McEvilly, Archbishop of Tuam, contains the following reference to the new Roman Catholic Primate of Sydney -" God has blessed your country by providing an admirable Archbishop No better selection could be made. I am very sorry the Irish Church is losing such a pillar as the Bishop of Ossory. He will be an irreparable loss at our episcopal meetings Deeply versed in all kinds of learning — sacred and profane, ancient and modern — honest to a degree almost approach-ing to bluntness, Irish to the backbone, no man living can love Ireland and her sons at home and abroad with more intense, self-sacrificing, unselfish love. Such is Dr. Moran, who is to leave us on 28th June. We lose him, you have him ; may God bless his labours. If you lost a great Archbishop, you have got a most worthy successor."

An occasional correspondent writing from Coomera, under date 9th instant, says -The roads of this division will compare very favour-ably with those of any other from Brisbane to Southport Some reaches of the road from the ferry to Pimpama, a distance of six miles, are equal to any road near Brisbane. But there are by-roads which require a good deal of work to make the settlers' homes comfort-ably accessible An important meeting of the board was held on Saturday last, when a spirit of revision, if not of reformation, appeared to have come over the members. Mr Lehey thought the present system of working with a party and one dray was disproportionate and occasioned loss Mr Cox thought the wages paid were high, but the most important busi-ness was introduced by the chairman, by read-ing a letter from the Rev. Isaac Harding, re-commending the board to raise a loan of £1000 to do the heavy portions of work in a thorough and permanent manner, so as to save the ever recurring waste of money in patching after every storm of rain. The pioject was, how-ever, after some discussion, relegated for further consideration at a future day. - Cane and grass are both growing, and the autumn is protracted into the usual period of winter, the temperature all night being that of the end of April and the beginning of May -We have no signs of an excess of labour, hav-ing no calls for several weeks past from swags-men going or returning from the Tweed, and good hands at felling scrub are in some places inquired for, but this is just the kind of hands that, as far as our experience goes, is never in excess -The sugar plantation at Nerang advertised for sale, complete with all the machinery, by Messrs Philpott, does not yet find a purchaser, and a larger establishment down the river, projected six months ago by a town syndicate with a proposal of expending £10,000, makes no show as yet ; while one of intermediate dimensions, six miles north, with sixty acres of very fine cane, is relegated to the feeding of cows, and in this case we are informed there is a block of 300 acres of land of equal adaptation for cane culture -Mr Dutton's and Mr Dickson's land theories are exciting much interest as extraordinary plunges into the untried and unknown regions of a political Hades, and it is surmised that men who are not bold enough to go on risking their all in the crippled industry of the sugar planter will hesitate before going into the balloon of such daring adventurers who talk of spending nine millions of borrowed money during their first ascent. But it may be that the excess of gas will waste itself at the stump, and that there may be less of it in Parliament.

Fresh tenders are invited for construction of jetties at Woody Point and Redcliffe

The annual meeting of the Ironclad Tin Mining Company is adjourned till Wednesday,

25th June

A public meeting is to be held in the Sunday school building, Kangaroo Point, to-morrow evening to consider the desirableness of estab-lishing a School of Arts.

The programme of the opening night of the Liliputian Opera Troupe at the Albert Hall

appears in our columns

Members of the Y.M.C.A. are invited to send suggestions for extension or improvement of the work to the Board of Management, who will attend this evening, between 8 and 9 o'clock, to hear suggestions or complaints.

An entertainment will be given in the Albert Hall this evening by Miss Kate Douglas, late of the Theatres Royal, Sydney and Melbourne, assisted by a number of lady amateurs. It will consist of a number of recitations, inter-spersed with vocal and instrumental selections.

WITTON. - John Cnmeron reports having sold the above property, of account of D C McConnel, Esq., for the sum of £6000. The area of the pro-perty is between 80 and 90 acres, and the sale com-prises the whole of this, and includes the house and other improvements. Mr Cameron also re-ports the sale of 33ft. frontage to Adelaide street,

running through to Burnett lane, next the Wes-

leyan Chapel, at £85 per foot.

The light at Cape Nelson lighthouse is to be shown for the first time on the 7th July next (says the Melbourne Argus). It is de-scribed as a first-order fixed light. The dioptric illuminating apparatus is elevated 250ft. above sea level, and will be visible in clear weather at a distance of nineteen nautical miles. The height of the stone tower is 79ft. A red light will be shown eastward over the Lawrence Rock, and another red light will be exhibited to the west over the southernmost point of Cape Bridgewater, while seawards white light will be displayed,

A new charging apparatus for blasting operations has been submitted to the Mines Department (says the Melbourne Argus). Mr William Grainger, inspector of mines, who reports upon it, says that it consists of a copper tube and ramrod. The former is inserted in the hole to be charged, and the ramrod is used as the ramrod of a gun. The powder is thus kept from the damp sides of the hole until the entire charge is in, and thus a frequent cause of accident is removed. The apparatus is said to be a great time-saver, and much less danger-ous to use than the old method. The cost is 80s., and the makers are Messrs Veale and

Thomas.

A cable message published a few days ago stated that a German sloop of war had arrived at Gibraltar, and was about to proceed with a gunboat to the west coast of Africa, for the purpose of taking possession of the port and bay of Angra Pequena, in Great Namaqua Land to the north-west of the Cape Colony. A recent number of the North German Gazette contains a semi-official communique to the effect that the object of Dr. Nachtigal's mission to the west coast of Africa is to gather materials for enabling the Imperial Government to es-tablish a proper consular representation in those regions, and meanwhile to protect and promote the interests of German subjects there. Dr. Buchner, the African traveller, has been attached to Dr. Nachtigal at the latter's own request, as also Herr Mobius, secretary to the German Consulate-general in London. At the same time the lmperial Government contem-plates establishing a permanent naval station in West Afrocan waters, and meanwhile the gunboat Move left Kiel on the 15th of April for Lisbon, there to take on board the Im-perial commissary (Dr. Nachtigal) and his assistants, and to convey them to their destina-tion, where it will remain to support them in

their task

A deputation from the Warwick Progress Committee, consisting of the chairman (Mr

Nunn), and Messrs Macansh, O'Sullivan, and Gibson, waited upon the Minister for Works on Friday evening (says the Warwick Argus) for the purpose of laying before him a copy of Mr Gibson's report on the country passed over by the party recently sent out to examine the Range at the head of Swan Creek. Mr

Nunn laid before the Minister a plan showing the course of the existing line from Emu Vale to Brisbane, the line surveyed via Cunning-ham's Gap to Rosevale, and also the route marked by the exploring party led by Mr Clinton, via Swan Creek towards Harrisville. He pointed out that the latter would be much the shorter route, and while bringing Warwick within ninety-six miles of Brisbane, would only require forty-two miles of line to be constructed. He said the Progress Committee did not desire to dictate as to which way the line should go, but only wished to assist in pointing out the shortest and the most direct route Mr Miles stated in reply that the line mentioned was necessary and must be constructed. He promised to send up surveyors to examine and report upon the route suggested by the com-mittee. The deputation having thanked the Minister, withdrew.

The death of Mrs Eva Marshall, the wife of Mr Fred. Marshall, the popular comedian, occurred at her lodgings, Jackson street, St Kilda, at 11 o'clock yesterday morning (says the Argus of 6th instant). Since her husband's illness Mrs Marshall, who has been his con-stant attendant, has suffered occasionally from neuralgia, headaches, and a slight derange-ment of the heart, but her indisposition never extended over any length of time nor occa-sioned alarm among hei friends. About three weeks ago, however, she contracted typhoid fever, and died yesterday at the early age of 32 years. A consultation was held between Drs.

Robertson and Neild a few days ago, when it was found that hemorrhage had supervened, and no hope was held out of recovery. The deceased was not well known on the stage, she having only played a few minor parts during the first season of the London Comedy Com-pany in Melbourne. Mr Marshall's position has been rendered all the more distressing by the loss of his wife It is felt by his medical advisers and his friends that unless means can be devised for providing him with a temporary home in the country this last blow will entirely destroy his mind The funds in hand have been nearly exhausted owing to the illness of Mrs Marshall, and unless the idea of sending the invalid into the country can be carried out without delay it will become necessary before long to obtain his admission to an asylum The condition of the sufferer is described as most pitiable and those who sympathise with him in his deep misery are asked to endeavour to alleviate the case as far as possible.

The following items are from New Cale-donian papers to 28th May -" A correspon-dent of the Néo Caledonien writes from Boulo-repari to complain of the wholesale cattle lifting which is being practised by the convicts in that neighbourhood On one occasion, as many as twelve of these desperadoes had rounded a herd of milch cows into a pond in his paddock, and were making off with two calves, when they were surprised towards midnight, and driven off ; but, on two subsequent occa-sions they were more successful. On the 23rd of May, a convict named Etcheverry, who was detected in the act of stealing a goat by War-der Arnaud, aimed a blow at him with an axe. The warder drew his revolver, and shot him. Although the man was mortally wounded, he sprang upon Arnaud in order to grapple with him, when the latter discharged a second barrel, and his assailant immediately fell.

He was removed to the military hospital, where he died shortly afterwards. In the camp on the island of Nou, on the 20th of May a convict named Bordj was killed by one of his fellow prisoners, and at Poembout, on the evening of the 4th ultimo, Warder Kavard shot a convict named Beaulieu, whom he had arrested in the house of a settler The shot, which proved fatal, was fired in self-defence, as the prisoner endeavoured to close with him. A military tribunal has passed a sentence of imprisonment for life upon Augrand, a convict implicated in the murder of two of his fellow prisoners ; but it is expected that the Council of Revision will order him to be executed. In that case observes the Néo Caledonian, with a touch of sardonic humour, " the fifth act of the tragedy will be played in the presence of Beelzebub, when all the ban and arrière ban of the infernal regions will be under arms in order to receive a new recruit." According to the same journal the Governor of New Cale-donia will take his departure from the island in the D'Estrees, and will visit the principal cities of Australia, Honolulu, and the United States on his way home.

The following item of news is from the San Francisco mail summary, dated from Harper, Kansas, 30th April -A courier, this evening, brings news of the daring attempt to rob the Medicine Valley Bank, at Medicine Lodge, thirty miles west of here, in which the cashier was killed and the president fatally wounded. At 10 o'clock this morning four men, armed with Winchester repeating rifles and revolvers, rode up to the bank. Two remained with the horses, while the others entered the building and demanded money. E W Payne, presi-dent, and George Guppert, cashier, were in the bank. They refused to comply, with the re-sult above stated. The marshal just then ap-peared, and opened fire on the men outside Citizens gathered rapidly, and the robbers, seeing the game was up, quickly mounted and galloped away without having secured their booty. Within ten minutes thirty men were in hot pursuit. Harper, Kansas, 1st May. - Swift retribution has overtaken the Medicine Lodge murderers and robbers. The posse in pursuit yesterday carne up with the robbers three miles from town, captured them after a brief struggle, brought the prisoners back to town, and lodged them in the cala-boose A crowd gathered at 10 p m and at tacked the building. One robber opened fire, whereupon the crowd riddled him with bullets. The remaining three were taken out, conducted to the edge of the town, and hanged. The ex-citement was intense. They refused to listen to the officers, who endeavoured to quiet them. One of the prisoners begged for mercy, but the others died game. The excitement increased when it was found that two of the robbers were Henry Brown and James Wheeler, Marshal and Assistant-Marshal of Caldwell. The other two — John Wesley and Henry Brown — were cowboys from the Seventy-five Range. All the men were well known here. Mr Payne, presi-

dent of the bank, is reported dying. A bullet entered his breast over the heart, and came out under the shoulder. Guppert, the cashier, was first shot in the back and then in the forehead. He died instantly.