Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Monday 24 July 1899, page 4


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MONDAY, JULY 12, 1899.

Fine weather is expected to prevail during the next twenty-four hours.

The polling in connection with the return of a member of the Legislative Assembly for the electoral district of Brisbane South took place on Saturday, when on the first count Mr. Turley had a majority of 9 votes.

The election proved very exciting ; each candidate polled 1168 votes in South Brisbane, and at Rockhampton Mr. Turley secured by votes, while none were recorded

for Mr. Jones.

The International football match, England v. Australia, was won on Saturday by the Englishmen by 11 to nil. The

attendance was the largest known on

a Queensland football field namely, about

15,000.

The Land Court appeal cases (South-

western) come before the Supreme Court

to-day.

A man died suddenly at a hotel in South Brisbane on Saturday.

Mr. Blocksidge has been elected unop-posed to fill the aldermanic seat rendered vacant by the death of Mr. Luya.

The Premier and party left Bowen yesterday afternoon for Townsville.

While at Bowen, Mr. Dickson received a deputation with regard to the railway extension to the 17-mile peg.

The steamer Denton Grange has left Bowen with 700 tons of frozen meat.

The Christian Brothers are about to open a school at Charters Towers, and £197 was

collected in half-an-hour to provide a resi-

dence for them.

The amount of salvage to be paid to the Union Company for the towage of the disabled Steamer Perthshire to Sydney has been fixed by mutual agreement at £5000.

An address from the Queensland engineers has been presented to Mr. John Blair, chief

engineer of the Perthshire.

The match between the Australian cricketers and W. G. Grace's eleven, played at the Crystal Palace, resulted in a draw.

The Australians scored 361 in their first

innings, and being 130 behind, had to follow

on.

In their second innings the Australians had lost three wickets for 119 runs when

time was called.

A presentation is to be made to Howell, in recognition of his great feat in taking

the ten Surrey wickets in May last for 28

runs.

With regard to the proposal for the coinage of silver by the colonial mints, the British Treasury authorities are unable to formulate conditions until the colonies have settled whether all the mints, or only one, are to coin silver, and other difficulties have

been overcome.

An explosion occurred on board the torpedo hat destroyer Bullfinch while she was making her steam trials, eight men being killed and six others injured.

The famous Muckross Estate in Ireland, which includes the principal portion of the Lakes of Killarney, has been purchased by Mr. Gallagher, a Dublin tobacconist, for

£85,000.

Fifty families have been rendered home-less by a fire at High Wycombe, in England.

In the international university sports in England, Oxford and Cambridge beat Hall

and Harvard (America by five events to

four.

Speaking at a meeting of the Eastern Telegraph Company, the Marquis of Tweeddale further explained the attitude of the company towards the proposed Pacific cable.

At the Peace Conference the British and American delegates voted' in favour of the use of asphyxiating shells and expanding bullets in war, but they were opposed by the representatives of all the other Powers.

In the Canadian House of Commons a resolution, proposed by Sir Charles Tupper, urging that efforts should be made to secure preferential treatment for Canadian produce in the English markets was rejected by 77

votes to 41.

The British authorities are continuing their precautionary preparations in view of the situation in the Transvaal, and eleven batteries of artillery are now in readiness at Woolwich for despatch to South Africa.

The steamer Konig has sailed from Naples with a large cargo of rifles, ammunition, and mules for the Transvaal.

Mr. Schreiner, the Cape Premier, has telegraphed to President Kruger, exhorting him

not to yield any further.

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THE SOUTH BRISBANE ELECTION.

Mr. Turley's election on Saturday' must the regarded as a distinct victory for Federation. The challenge thrown out by Messrs. Stephens and Jones leaves us no other conclusion. When Mr. Jones was asked at his first meeting what federation had to do with the Sea b. Brisbane election, She said clearly and emphatically that it had everything to do with the election. Not only did the candidate who considered he was standing in the Government interest

argue that union was the burning ques- {

lion-the out issue of importance but

the sponsor announced that he had

dared the Premier to endorse a federal candidate. Cr. 'Stephens stood before the South. Brisbane electors, therefore,

as pledged to light the Commonwealth

Bill with any and every weapon to this I

hand, and Mr. Jones was not ashamed to confess to a similar unreasoning bitterness. It was to he war to the knife. Die candidate for the suffrages of the South Brisbane electors would

not even promise that he would how to the will of the majority. We may assume that (had Mr. Jones been elected

he and his colleague would have named

pered the "Government at every turn and the tactics pursued during the opening session of the present Parliament would have been unblushingly continued in the coming session if the Commonwealth Bill had to he endorsed. What would their support of the Government have been worth on such conditions V Would it not have been manifestly unfair to Mr". Dickson

give him a double dose of Mr. W. ?Stephens-for that us what the election of Mr. Jones meant V But the pity of the whole thing is that there was no need to raise the federal issue in the shape it was raised. Federation as a vital question is with the people for decision not with Parliament. Both Houses have dealt "with the essentials by passing into Ifealbling Hill, and had Messrs. Stephens a and Jones been content to state that they were prepared to luoAV to the will of One majority, as lawabiding iBritous, though opposed to the Commonwealth Bill, the way would have been open for a compromise. But nothing would satisfy Mr. stephens except £10 extreme of' ferocious opposition, and upon his head must rest the whole responsibility of' a seat lost to the Government. His idea evidently was to walk into the assembly with Mr. Jones on his arm and dare Mr. Dickson once again to he true to the cause of union. Apparently, too, he (believed that South Brisbane was so strongly anti-federal as to make his role of swashbuckler an acceptable one to the electors. The result was that some Kio verminen t supporters declined to vote at all, a number of others voted for federation in the person of Mr. Turley, and of the rest many east their votes for Mr. Jones under protest. A cursory glance at the number of votes, cast shows as much, for (Mr. Jones polled 270 votes less than air. Stephens did at the last election, notwithstanding the intense interest taken in the present contest, while Mr. Turley polled practically the same strs before. looked

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victory- should encourage (Mr. Dickson. The(jPr>înièr will see that in what was supposed to turn hot-bed of provincialism the people take broad views and endorse his advocacy of the Commonwealth Bill, he must realise now that federation is the question of the hour, and that as he puts forth all his strength to achieve it he will be supported and encouraged. The enemies of. union boldly called for Sir. Jones's return on the ground that it would represent a first deadly blow at federation. The Premier has been "held up to derision for the course he has adopted and the fight he is making. Very well, the South Brisbane electors have practically called upon him to go right ahead, and the colony as a whole is undoubtedly

with (him.