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^'-;QUEENSLANP,^;.:-'';;.;'
' /BRISBANE. Mat','20...
The, new regulations for. the Polynesian,
labour trade were passed by the Executive
Council this morning. The instructions to
Government agents practically remain the'
same as before, but agents are enjoined to
enforce. the regulations unhesitatingly. \;
[From another source we learn that the
schooner May, which has been fitting, up at
Bundaberg in anticipation of a renewal;
of the South Sea Island trade, has been
? licensed by the Government, and it is un-.
.dorstood that she will sail next week to
recruit labour for ^he plantations.] r ? '''' ?'
'- '?'???? ' : BEISBANE,Mat21? :.!
| Hop Kee, the Chinaman who. ^was. sen-
tenoed to .death- at j. the last Eockhampton
. Asaizes, fpr^the.mUrder of a fellow country
man named' Lee 'Yin g,- at Mount Morgan; ?
?has been reprieved. The' sentence has
been commuted tp- two 'years' penal servi-'
''tude. ?'?''?'?'''?'' ?'''??'?'' ''??''. ... '. 'I' .;-'''';
: . . , .,..- , BKISBANE, Mat, 24.' ,
' A 'telegram from Cdoktb'irn .Btates, that .
Captain .Hanrickson, of the bark Elizabeth,
bound from Hamburg' for Sydney, with 10 '
?f ('the''. crew,' were picked up by the s.s.
Victoria yesterday morning near Claremont
Island* lightship, and Mfc for the, south
to-day.' Captain Henriokson reports that
? the' ship, struck . tin a rock about 600 miles
north-west of Eockhampton. He remained
on board for seven days, and , then ? con
struoted a boat with the bulwaikB of the:
.vessel. The bark broke up, and -the, occu-1
, pants' drifted about for 15 days in this open
bout; before l»eing picked, up. ?' '
-?' :? '.'.. '? ' ' ?' ?'' '; ' BEISBANE; MAxiS. ..'
.. His Excellency! the Governor (General
Sir Henry W. Norman) gave an offioial
dinner last night in honour of her Majesty's
birthday.' ? ?' -' v '? ' '? ? : ? : ?
The .Eev. Eobert .Hartley, ;: Primitive
Methodist minister?-' 'and ' a ,; very old;
colonist, died at.Epckhampton tp,-diy. ' He
arrived in Queensland. 27 years ? ago'. . ..', . ?
'' iDiiring the 'voyage of the bark Scottish .
,Lass from Glasgow. (February 8)' to. ? Bris- ?
bane,-, while:going'. at the rate^ of thirteen
.knots, she struck a large whale. ? The bark
sustained some ?da'mage''below'; the1 'water
line from' the force.'of the1 collision.'' ','' V „'.'.'
??'? During Mocday night a cabin j'boy^ on'
board the schooner Kitty Belle, at Thurs-.
day Island, was murdered. There was
nothing.. during; the night to arouse, sus
pioion.and nothing was suspected, till the
lad was missing next morning. The cook'
.was arrested in connection with the affair,
and on his bunk being searched a horrible
- discovery was made, the details of which it
: is impossible to particularise. Portions of
the .missing lad's, body. w^re ..found, the
tragedy resembling in some -respects the
Wbitechapel murders.. A further search
revealed some blood-stained clothes belong-'
ing to the accused man. ' ; ' ' '' ?'
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