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Melbourne, May 12.
An important will case is being
tried. Captain Haines left £12,000
to the Oolac Ladies Benevolent Society
and Susannah Knowley, his next of
kin, claims the money on the grounds
that the Society has eeaseel to exist.
Judgment was reserved.
Mr. Charles Elliott, skarebroker,
has filed his schedule. His liabilities
are over a quarter of a million ster-
ling.
J. Warren, an extensive exporter of
butter, has commenced a libel action
against the Minister for Agriculture,
for saying that Warren's butter was
unfit for human consumption.
There is a general strike of pressers
in the tailoring trade, consequent on
reductions caused by the new tariff.
Adelaide, May 12.
News has been received from Mr.
Christie. He announces his arrival at
Colombo, where he has lectured on the
subject of the settlement of Anglo-
Indians in Australia to an appreciative
audience.
The P. & O. steamer Paramatta has
sailed for Albany. Passengers for
Western Australia : Mr. and Mrs.
Hassell and two children, Mr. Schu
macher, and Miss Canning.
Melbourne, May 13.
The Government has given notice to
eighty officers in the Railway Depart
ment, over 65 years of age, that their
services will be dispensed with. The
Secretary of Railways, Mr. Labouchere
who is over that age, will, however, be
retained for the present, hut the En-
gineer-in-Chief, who is a sexagenarian,
goes. Some of these dismissals involve
circuniotances of especial hardship.
The Victorian Parliament was open
ed by His Excellency the Governor
yesterday. Mr. Bent, who was elected
Speaker on the voices, was congratu
lated by the Governor. His Excel
lency's speech contains no points of
public interest beyond an allusion to
the death of the Duke of Clarence,
and a statement that measures would
be taken to relieve the distress among
the working classes. The Hon. Duncan
Gillies leads tho Opposition.
Auckland, May 13
The Government propose to shortly
th'-ow open large areas of land in the
South Island, for selection and pur
chase.
Sydney, May 13.
Mrs. Mary Michael has commenced
an action for divorce against her hus
band, Carl Mielmel, for adultery and
cruelty. Much interest is taken in
! the case, as the parties are both well
; known. The husband held a good
position at one time under Government.
The wife says that he brutally ill-used
her over a series of years, frequently
knocking her down.
Adelaide, May- 13.
Yesterday Mr. Tow ton's horses were
offered at auction. The Perth Cup
winucr, The Duke, by Wellington-
Beeswax, was disposed of for £200,
while the liurdle-racer, Strike, bj
Strike Again- Gulnare, was knocked
down at £250. Wandering Willie
was withdrawn, and will accompany
Scarpia to Western Australia.
The shareniarket is firmer, but trans
actions ai'0 piaetically confined to
Broken Hills, which closed at £5 7s.
Melbourne, May 14.
Charles Ernest Clarke, sliarebroker,
has been arrested on a warrant charging
him with conspiring with Taylor, late
manager of the Land Credit Bank, now
in gaol, to defraud that institution of
£37,000. It is alleged that the swindle
has keen going on for years, Clarke's
overdraft gradually mounting up, -Tay
lor meanwhile falsifying the bank books
so as to hoodw ink the directors. The
auditors also could not detect the frauds
because, pursuant to ordinary banking
practice, they were prevented from
seeing any books or entries- likely to
lead to a discovery of malpractices.
Brisbane, May 14.
Great distress prevails amongst the
unemployed. Mr. Tozer, Colonial
Secretary, says that the men must
either go on the land or leave the
colony, as borrowed money for great
public works is no longer available.
Auckland, May 14.
The New Zealand Trust and Agency
Company have withdrawn a large
amount of their capital for England,
consequent on their objection to the
taxation policy of the Government.
Adelaide, May 14.
The Sliaremarket is rather firmer.
Brokens are £5 Ss. But little is doing
in other stocks.
The South Australian sailed to-day
for Fremantie. Passengers : — Mr. and
Mrs. Plane, Mis? Jean Campbell, Mrs.
Saddler, Mrs. Jones, Mrs. Hutchinson,
Messrs. C. 'Hewitt, Warnock, Simons,
! Stockier, Treloar, Biftlott, Gardner,
Keegan, Angel, Sand over, Espie, Kidd,
Todd, Willis, Jenkins, Hurst, Fisher,
Davies, Anderson. Foster, Fredericks,
Bampton, Cohen, Marshall, Wilson, C.
Tompson, Mulcahy, Campbell, Joyce,
Fry, H. S. Hawkins, McMillan, G.
Jones, W. Baker, M. Davies, F. W.
Harris (in saloon), and 68 in second
cabin.
Melbourne, May 12.
There is nothing fresh in connection
with Deeming, save that a great row
has arisen between Mr. Marshall Lyle,
and the Rev. H. F. Scott, Prison
Prison Chaplain. Mr. Scott complain
ed that Mr. Lyle, was trying to intro
duce a Wesleyan clergyman to Deem
ing, and called Lyle " a low mean cur."
Mr. Lyle admitted having endeavour
ed to secure the services of a Wesleyan
minister, as the prisoner claimed that
he had been a class leader in that
denomination, and had asserted Scott
had spoiled all his chances of appeal
by letting out his coniessiou. An
appeal to the Privy Council is now
unlikely.
The warrant for the execution of
Frederick Bailey Deeming, on the
23rd instant, was duly signed yester
day by Bis Excellency the Governor
(Lord Hopefcoun), the Chief Secretary,
Mr. McLean, as well as by the Under
Secretary, Mr. Wilson, and forwarded
to Sheriff Anderson.
The action of the Rev. H. F. Scott,
Chaplain of the Melbourne Gaol, in
revealing the confe- sion of Deeming to
j the Press h«s given much umbrage to
! Mr. Marshall Lyle, who considers that
Mr. Scott has gone outside his pro
vince in concerning himself about the
! prisoner's temporal affairs. The
rupture led to a very unpleasant, not
to say disgraceful scene, yesterday at
the gaol, in which both parties indulg
ed in mutual recriminations, Mr. Lyle
referring to Mr. Scott as a " fellow'
while the chaplain retaliated by desig
nating the solicitor as "a contemp
tible cad." Both sides have forward
ed statements of the affair to the Press
but they differ so Avidely as to totally
preclude the reader from reconciling
them satisfactorily. However, it is J
placed beyond doubt, that the first
act Avas committed by Mr. Lyle, who
attempted to get his. friend Dr.. Strong
to act as Deeming's spiritual adviser,
he claims, at the prisoner's own request,
although Mr. Scott denies, and states
that it Avas at Mr Lyle's instigation
a change was proposed. "You are con
tinually coming between me and my
client," said Mr. Marshall Lyle to
which the reverend gentleman made
answer that what with the Avay in
which Deeming . was pestered Avith
making Avills and assignments and
autobiographies and Avhat not, he had
never been able to talk seriously with
the condemned man as to his future
state.
Alluding to the attempt made to
turn Deeming against him, Dr. Scott
says, " I think it a most unwarrantable
piece of interference on Mr. .Lyle's
part and a contemptible attempt to
turn the prisoner against me. I have
my own view of Mr. Lyle's purpose,
but prefer at this stage to retain it,"
winding up with the remarkable asser
tion " 1 never in my experience knew
a prisoner under sentence of death so
disturbed and unsettled by his lawyer
as Deeming has been by Mr. Lyle."
The latter gentleman has retaliated by
addressing the following letter to
Sheriff Anderson under date 11th May :
" Dear Sir — I beg to draAv your atten
tion to statements of importance
purporting to be in the nature of a
confession of a prisoner, Avhich are
reproduced in the Melbourne papers as
coming out of the gaol through the
Rev. 's Mr Scott and Mr. Whitton. I
must point out that this is a breach of
the regulations as posted in the gaol.
The result of these regulations being
thus broken is that, as is stated in the
cable messages from London in to
night's press, the prisoner's appeal to
the Privy Council in London may fall
through and I fear must do so. feel
it my duty to protest against the inter
ference of the Rev, Mr. Scott in the
prisoner's temporal matters which in
no Avay pat take of the duties of the
Gaol Chaplain."
Meanwhile Deeming takes a morbid
interest in discussirg about the brains
of Guiteau and Schneider, and in spec
ulating whether his brain Avill prove
to have been similarly affected to
theirs, or exhibit another form of
disease entirely characteristic.
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