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'AUSTRALASIAN ITEIMS.
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MEW SOUTH WALES.
SYDNEY.
AN address was given at Windsor on
Friday night by Mr. T. Rose, M.P.,
in reply to statements recently made
by the Premier. He reviewed and
contradicted many of the statements
made by the Premier, and at the con
clusion of his address the following
motion was put :-" That in the
opinion of this meeting the electors of
the Hawkesbury have no longer any
confidence in the Reid Ministry."
This was carried unanimously.
The dead body of a man, about 65
years of age, has been found in Oakey
Creek, Hillgrove. The only clue to
his name is a miner's right, iNo. 95,
issued to J. Russell by the Labour
Bureau. An inquest was held, and a
verdict was returned that he died of
debility and exposure.
A painful gun accident befell young
Protheroe, son of Mr. William Pro
theroe, of Goree Station, while out
shooting on Friday. His gun burst,
and shattered his left hand. He was
taken to the Narrandera Hospital, and
it was found necessary to amputate
his arm. He is progressing favour
ably.
At the inquest on the deaths of Un
win and Butler, at West Wyalong,
the jury found that the deceased came
to their death by an accidental ex
plosion in an old hole at the Prince of
Wales mine. The jury further found
that there was no evidence of culpable
negligence, but added a rider recom
mending that stricter supervision be
maintained by mining managers over
men, and that in exploding charges a
primer should be used.
At the Cootamundra Quarter Ses
sions Antoni Melzer, for sheep-steal.
ing, was sentenced to two years' im
prisonment. Ex-constable Connolly,
of Wyalong, for breaking a man's
arm while under arrest, was sentenced
to three years' imprisonment. Wil
liam Henry Talbot, for horse-stealing,
was sentenced to two years. William
Henry Robinson, Arthur Lynch, and
George Kiernan were acquitted on a
charge of robbery and assault. Jimmy
Ah Ling was acquitted on a charge of
incendiarism.
The Forster mills are kept very
busy sending timber to Sydney. On
Friday the Shannon and the Ability,
and on Saturday the Forest Queen,
the Active, the Annie, the Favourite,
and the Stanley left loaded with tim
ber; and the steamer Sarah Fenwick,
besides a large supply of farm pro
duce, took a quantity of timber for
Sydney.
On Friday night the railway medi
cal oficer, Dr. F. P. M. Woodward,
visited Bathurst to hold an examina
tion for membership of the Railway
Ambulance Corps. There were nine
candidates, all of whom passed in a
highly satisfactory manner. The fol
lowing men passed the first examina
tion for certificates entitling them to
render the necessary first aid in the
case of accidents :-Locomotive De
partment- J. Blackburn, J. G. Reid,
H. Shute, J. Baines, G. H. Newman,
F. Tucker, J. Traynor. Permanent
Way: R. Dowling (civilian, not em
ployed in the service), O. Smith.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
on Saturday night to break into Mr.
T. Hosking's general store, Bromide
street, Broken Hill. An entrance
was attempted by inserting an iron
bar in three different places. There
was about £100 in the safe in the
shop at the time.
At an early hour on Sunday morn
ing the bar of the Pig and Whistle
Hotel, Bromide-street, Broken Hill,
was entered by pressing open a win
dow with an iron gad. Nothing is
missing. It is thought the object of
the entry was to remove the safe.
At meetings held at Bega and Mo
gilla, of suppliers to the New South
Wales Creamery and Butter Company,
to consider the reports of Messrs.
Stilles and Robinson, the delegates
who recently visited Sydney to attend
a conference there, motions were car
ried in favour of the export scheme
lately inaugurated by the company.
Suppliers coming under this scheme
receive a first payment of 2td per gal
lon for all milk of standard test de
livered during the export season, and
at the end of that period, or earlier if
workable, an additional and final pay
ment will be made to them dependent
on the prices realised in London.
Inquiries at the Blackheath Post
Office for land tax appeal forms are
answered by the tender of notices of
objection instead of the forms inquired
for. The excessive valuations made
by the assessors in the locality render
anyattemptatnegotiationupon thebasis
offered under the latter form abortive,
an appeal being inevitable under exiet
ing conditions.
A young man named Alfred Lay
burn met with a very serious accident
on Friday at the reservoir of the Lynd
hurst Goldmining Company, Carcoar.
He was wheeling a barrel of concrete
on the top of the reservoir, when the
wheel of the barrow went over the
edge of the tramway, thereby causing
Layburn to fall a distance of between
30ft and 40ft.into the rocky bed of the
Belubula River. Dr. E. Hawthorne
was soon in attendance, and discovered
severe wounds to the head and nume
rous bruises over the body.
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