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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Wholesale returns from Western Austra
lian goldfields set in.
Gold-seekers find that distant bills are not
so green after all.
Australian immigration to Sonth Africa
has almost ceased.
Victoria not such a bad place to live in
after all, notwithstanding depression.
Appeal being made on behalf of Greeks
rendered destitute by recent earthquakes.
General Ferron, formerly Governor of New
Caledonia, has died from the resnlts of an
accident at Lyons.'
Spanish troops are busy suppressing a
rising amonget the Maluy inhabitants of the
Philippine Islands.
The Argus correspondent gives sound
reasons for supposing that Sir Henry Loch
will not return to Cape Colony.
The unemployed sent from Melbourne on
free passes are suspected of numerous petty
burglaries at Bendigo.
Football premiership in Ballarat this year
likely to he keenly oontested. Sebastopol
isn’t out of it yet.
The Tariff Board will hold its last meet
ing for the taking of evidence next Friday.
Report in preparation.
On Sunday there-was a renewal of earth
quakes in Greece, the shacks beiug. most
severely-felt at Athens. . f**
The Adelaide Caledonian Society’s statue
of Robbie Burns, erected at North Terrace,
was unveiled on Saturday last.
The United States in expending £500,003
in the construction of 12 fast torpedo boat 9,
with.a speed of 25 knots.
, The comet discovered by a Sydney astro
nomer Eomo weeks ago has boeu observed at
the Greenwich Observatory.
Batter factories continue to prosper
throughout the colony, and seem to be
almost the only concerns paying dividends.
Many returned gold diggers from Cool
gardie say that they had nut earned a penny
since they left Victoria.
A warder at Darlinghurst (N.S.W.) Gaol
has been dismissed for smuggling letters and
dainties into prison for prisoners.
On Friday the Port Fairy Fishermen’s
Union forwarded 60 baskets of fish for the
unemployed at South Melbourne.
About a hundred permits were issued on
Monday by the New Sonth Wales Mines
Department to gold fossickers.
Rawei and his wife, Maori, evangelists, are
to be summonnd for charging for admission
to Sunday evening concerts at Castlemaine.
The total number of men available for
homo service (military) in Graat Britain is
332,000, and for service at home and abroad
662.000
Mr Warren, Australian manager of the
Eastern Extension Telegraph Company,
notifies that the duplicate Siogr.pore-Hong
Kong cable has been.successfully laid.
Mr Justice Willinms (England) is of
opinion that the auditors who examined the
books of the New Ztaland L. and M.A. Com
pany failed in their plainest duty.
At the instance of the mayor of Sonth
Melbourne, a committee has been farmed to
make special efforts to relieve distress during
the coming winter.
The Tasmanian Treasurer, Mr Fyab, will
deliver his financial statement on the even
ing of Parliament reassembling on 16 h'
May.
The Seamen’s Union cf New South Wales
has declared in favor of amalgamation with
the Senmen’* Union of Great Baitain and
the United States.
In Hyde Park, London, on May Day,
there was an angry demonstration against
the Anarchists, who were hustled by the
mob.
The Sheppartnn Agricultural Society, com
posed mostly of firmer?, has deolared in
favor of the stock tax, only six supporting its
abolition.
A man named Spargo, living at Castle
maine, was so savagely kicked by another
man whilst on his way home that his leg
was broken in several places.
Mr N. Fitzgerald, M.L.C., of Victoria, has
notified that he will gladly represent Tas
mania at the Ottawa Conference, as re
quested.
At a mooting of Sydney baukors on Mon
day proposals to reduce the rate of interest
nn deposits nml to differentiate between long
and short term deposits were made.
Mr Gladstone has written a letter to M.
Leon Lay, the eminent French economist, in
which ho deplores the waoing of the free
trade principle in France.
A lad named Michael Eugene Maloney,
whose parents reside at Williamstowii, was
drowned in the River Tarwin, near Meeni
yan, on Thursday.
The Chinese are becoming still mere
civilised. Four of them are charged with
stealing gas in Melbourne by attaching au
india-rubber lube to the main service pipe.
H.M.S. Penguin is about to take a line of
soundings from a point uorth of Brisbane tn
the Solomon Islands for the proposed Pacifio
cable.
The purchasers of the Albnry boiling
down works hnve commenced alterations to
enable them to carry on the fri zeu meat
trade there.
A committee has been formed in London
to indace the Government to invite the colo
nies to combine with Great Britain for tho
purposes of federal defence.
The turn of the tide. On Monday 100
disappointed gold seekers returned from
Western Australia by the Adelaide, and 50
by the Bulimba. Others are said to be on
the road home.
The town of Stephani, in Russia, having
been completely destroyed by fire, a cyclone
subsequently passed over the neighborhood
and totally wrecked all the furniture a-d
goods that had bten saved from the houses.
A coal famine exists in fhe states of Penn
sly vania Riul Illinois in cons-quence of the
protracted strike of coal miners. From the
same erase the factories in the state of
Missouri are on the point of closing.
The unveiling nf Sir George Grey’s monu
ment to the old Ngatiinauiapoto chief, Rewi,
took place at Kihikihi on the 23rd inst. in
the presence of a large gathering of Euro
peans and Maoris.
The Mayor of Melbourne doesn’t believe
in the advantages of opeo-air markets. He
regards the experience nf the middlemnn ne
a very decided advantage to the producer.
It has to be paid for, though.
Mrs Barlow, wife of a homestead lessee at;
Balranald (N.S. W.). was so severely burnt
through her dreps catching fire on Monday,
while she was engaged about her household
duties, that her life is despaired of.
The Queensland Chamber of Commerce on
Monday pneaed a resolution recommending
the Government to uee every endeavor to
encourage the Meseagrries Maritimes Com
pany to extend their trade to Queensland
ports.
A child 14 months old, named JohnsoD, at
Reedy Marsh, Tasmania, on Monday, when
playing in a yard fell on a nail pr<-j>ctirg
from a piece of wood. The ua2L4ntered the
child’s skull, and death was ahnoat instan
taneous,
The Ministpr of Railways, during hia visit
to the Beech Forest laßt week, ia reported to
have expressed himself as being favorable tn
a cheap narrow git-*ge line being provided
to open up the district, and promised to
bring the mattrr before the Cabinet.
A man named William Laurie was, on
Monday, injured by tho expioaiou of a
charge that had hung fi(e and he was re
lighting at the Eldorado mine, Wangsratta.
He may lose his eyesight, hut otherwise he
does not appear serir.udy injured.
A party of. seven persons were recently
exploring a cave near Gra'.z, in the Austrian
province of Styria, when the cave became
flooded. They were rescued at ths end nf
eight days, afier having undergone terrible
Bufferings and privations.
The resolutions passed at the mining con
ference at Derby (Ta».) have, in the main,
been endorsed by tho Secretary of Miue?,
who was present, and ate likely to lead to
practical remits. A tmre representative
conference will be held at Hobart in
November.
It is understood that Mr F. Madden,
M.L.A., who has marked off a seat on the
Ministerial benches, has accepted the invita
tion of the Gnvenim-nt to inovo the address
in reply to the Go-rruor’s speech at the
opening of Parliament. Tho seconder of the
address Ims not yet been decided upon.
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