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GENERAL NEWS.
TO-DAY'S ANNIVERSARY.
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.
Died 25th. July, 1834.
Thoughts put on paper are nothing
more than footsteps in the sand; you sea
the way the man has gone, bait to know
what he saw. on his walk you want his
eyes/’—Schopenhauer.
I iieard Coleridge I could not
have* been more delighted if I had heard
the music of the spheres. Poetry and
Philosophy had met together. • Truth
and Genius had embraced under the eye,
and with the sanction, of Religion. ’
Hazlitt.
The Agricultural and Pastoral Society
will meet t(iis morning.
Hurling-ajucL football wilbbe the double
attraction, at the Eastern Oral'this after
noon. ,
To-dny’s senior football match will be
between Ballarat and South Ballarat.
The half-yearly meeting of the Cres
vriclc branch of the Aimers’ Association
will be held this evening.
" ill-. Kingston, Federal Minister of Cus
toms, has resigned his portfolio,-owing
to a-disagreement with his colleagues.
On Thursday the s.s. Snevic took away
3C4 adult passengers, mostly for South
Africa.
Rabbits are being despatched to Sydney
from the German ton railway station to
the value of .£lOO weekly. "
Robert Kirby, an old resident of
Greenock, S.A., was found dead in an
iron, tank on. Thursday morning.
The'N.Z. House of Representatives has
by 34 vote? to 14 negatived the Totalisa
tor Abolition Bill.
Efforts are being made to establish
freezing works at Junee, N.S.W., for tho
exportation of rabbits.
Mr Arthur French and a companion
caught in two days this week 168 bream,-
weighing 106 lb, in the Tambo River,
Gippsland.
Seven hundred applications have been
received for the 107 allotments recently
thrown open for selection in the FuTnina
district.
• Austria is the only empire in the world
which has never had colonies, or even
trans-marine possessions, in any quarter
of the globe.
The Sydney Labor Council has decided
to ask the Premier to introduce a measure,
in the present session to make eight hours
a legal day’s work throughout the state.
The annual report of the N.S.W. In
spector-General of the Insane shows that
on 31st December last there were 4687
insane persons in New South Wales, as
against 4-188 at the end of the previous
year.
About forty persons who figure in the
British baronetage list are said to be
unable to prove their titles, and fresh
efforts are being made by baronets of es
tablished lineage to 'discredit their
claims.
A petition to tho Parlaiment of New-
Zealand dealing with the subject of the
scarcity of domestic servants, and pray
ing that steps may be taken to relieve it
by assisted immigration, is being widely
signed by the lathes of CbOk County (Po
verty Bay).
A remarkable coincidence occurred at
an inquest on tlio body of a woman at the
Lena oil Hospital recently. Three of the
jurymen were named Bird; the foreman
selected was Mr Peacock, a fifth was call
ed Caige, and another was Mr Perch.
At the Palmerston (Gippsland) Police
Court,; Peter Sager, of Toora, was fined
£l5, with =£3 6s costs, for tho destruction,
of deer on Snake Island.
During tho progress of a cricket match
between Grace Plains and Alallala, S.A.,
on Thursday, Air George Broster, while
patting for Grace Plains," turned a ball
on his right leg, which was unguarded.
The result was that he fractured his leg
between the knee and ankle.
By the simple expedient of putting by
all the farthings that came into their pos
session, a number of ladies have been,
enabled in one year to forward ,£B3 ro
All- Thomas .HCTmes, the police court mis
sionary, in aid of his Home of Rest for
Poor Women at Walton. England.
Mr L. R. Carter, of Scale Park! Chines,
has lost 20 pi-ize sheep, valued at JEI23,
during the last,few days by the ravages
of vagrant dogs. The - sheep included 14
rams and 6 merino ewes. Air Carter has
sustained great and repeated losses from
this cause within recent years.
Alount Sangay is the most active vol
cano in Die world. It is situated in Ecu
ador, is 17,120 feet in height, and has been
in constant activity since 1728. The
sounds of its eruptions are sometimes
heard in Quito, 150 miles distant, and
once 267 reports were counted in one
hour.
In a public park at Calcutta are seve
ral birds of the adjutant species. They
are the storks of the East Indies, and
average about 6 feat in height. These
birds parade in a stately way, and at a.
distance look so much like soldiers that
strangers often mistake them for grena
diers. * -
. The N.S.W. Alines Department has is
sued a return which shows that the value
of the silver, copper, tin, and coal ex
ported from the state during the half
year ended the 30th June was .£1,897,708.
This is an increase of -£159,419 compared
with the same period of last year.
. Almost the entire wheat product of the
north-eastern United States is now
ground into flour in. Minneapolis, and the
figures tell a wonderful story of the flour
trade. Statistics compiled by the “North
Western Miller” show the consumption
of. wheat by tho western mills last year
to have been Dearly 148,000,000 bushels,
which was ground into 34,135,000 barrels
of flour.
The aggregate sum paid by the banks
of issue in Victoria to the State Govern
ment in respect of note tax on their cir
culation during the six months ended
30th June. 1903, was .£9367 8s 6d, as
against .£9160 5s 9d for the previous six
months, and ,£9517 3s lid for the corre
sponding six months of 1902.
In New Zealand the increase in bank
deposits has been extraordinarily large,
■amounting for the last twelvo months to
no less than .£2.252.925, of which .£703,50S
is to be credited to Government deposits,
and the balance of ,£1,550,117 to other de
posits. The largo increase of neaxly
.£lOO,OOO in notes in circulation also testi-
to the prosperity’of. New Zealand. "
The unfortunate, mail George Thomp
son, who fell dowiP rhe stone steps at the
Ovens District Hospital while in an enil
eptie fit) suocumbed to his injuries. De
ceased \yas" educated at the Sydney Uni
versity.: Some years ago while playing
football, he was severely kicked about the
head, since which time he had been sub
ject to fits. ' ; ,
Alembers of a. “church gang” of burg
lars are making visitations*, to the
suburban parishes,"several robberies from
vicarages having tat on place within the
past few days. It is surmised that the
gang, having secured a copy of the dio
cesan list of confirmation services, have
assumed that all.the inmates of the vicar
ages would be present in the church on.
the occasions of " the episcopal visita
tions.
_On Thursday the most disastrous fire in
Natimuk that lias taken place for years
occurred in the" Heart of the town, when
the large ironmongery and furniture
slums of Mr Henry Bousfield wore, with,
their contents, completely destroyed. The
fire broke out about 4 o’clock, and is sup
posed to have been caused by an explo
sion of methylated spirits.
- Arrangements have been made by the
Queensland Naval Commandant to de
spatch a steam launch to Cape Aloreton.
•with some officers of the Naval Brigade,
with the view cf ascertaining. the best
site for a temporary wireless telegraphic
station at the Cape. It is proposed to
carry out experiments to establish com
munication with the city by means of
Ala.rconi’s system.
During Thursday afternoon James
Hughes and a. party of men on the back
beach, between Ryo and Sorrento, had
the uovel_ exu-wienco cf beaching a gas
buoy. No. 12 buoy got away from her
moorings in the West Channel tho pre
vious night.. One of the party swam out
a quarter of a. mile through the breakers
to attach roprs. After several attempts
had been made the party succeeded in
beaching the buoy, after working for
about eight-hours.
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