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NEWS OF THE DAY.
Local and General.
The weather is likely to be very unsettled
with more rain in all eastern districts of Qucens
Nearly £50 was paid at the Customs in Bris
bane yesterday as duty on imported butter.
Yesterday’s Civil Sittings of the Supreme
Court was occupied in the further hearing of
evidence in the contested will case Horsley and
another v. Dunlop.
The divorce suit Crocoinbc v. Crocombe was
partly heard in the Supreme Court yesterday
before MF. Justice Real, and was adjourned till
11th September next.
At. a meeting cf the Queensland National
Association yesterday Messrs. Macdonald
Paterson and Baynes were appointed trustees
of the Exhibition reserve.
A proposal for a summer show was considered
by the council of the National Association yes
terday.
A number of persons are out prospecting on
the Blackall Ranges and have obtained fair
results.
. At a meeting of old Grammar School boys
held last evening it was unanimously decided to
form a Past Grammar School cricket club. •
The funds of the Valley-Booroodabin Flood
Relief Fund, which were locked up in tho
Queensland National Bank have been released.
Councillor .Maguire has resigned his seat as
a member of the Toowong Shiro Council.
Accounts amounting to £128 is. lOd. were
passed for payment at Tuesday’s meeting of
the Toowong Shire Council.
The draft by-law relating to imposing tolls
on the River-road, Toowong, will bo submitted
for the favourableconsideration of the Governor
in-Council as soon as the council have em
bodied a few amendments made by the Depart
ment of Justice.
It is reported that 100 men are on the
Clohesy goldfield, and many applications for
claims have been made.
The vice-regal party after opening the show at
Bundabergreturned to Brisbane yesterday morn
ing. The wet weather maned the proceedings.
Sensational evidence was yesterday given in
tho case against Howard, charged with being
concerned in the explosion which occurred on
the Aramac recently. Accused was further re
manded.
At the Booroodabin Appeal Court held on
Tuesday numerous reductions were made, 226
being by consent.
A petition has been filed for the liquidation
of the estate of Robern Maguire, Toowong,
storekeeper, liabilities £2766.
An inquiry has been asked for by oficers
interested regarding certain statements made
in the annual report of Major-General Owen.
.Tho Queensland Rugby Union have decided
to play the series of matches with New South
Wales at the Exhibition Grounds instead of the
Union Grounds, as previously advertised.
Messrs. J. A. Smith, W. L. Nicklin, L. H.
Isles, and A. Warwick, four Brisbane cyclists,
left for Sydney yesterday to compete in the
championship meeting of the Sydney Bicycle
The heavy rain in south-eastern Queensland
on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning
gave rise in several places to apprehensions of
further floods.
The Adelaide Shipping Company have ceased
to make Bowen a port of cull.
Rain has been general throughout the colony,
the pastoral districts coming in for a good share
of the downpour, At Herberton the longest
drought ever experienced has at length broken
The central sugar mill extension scheme is
being taken up at Townsville by request from
Mackay, and a public meeting is to be con
The New South Wales football team left
Sydney for Brisbane by the express train last
evening.
The South Australian Government have
completed arrangements with New South
Wales for a parcels post between the two
colonies.
A. K. Moore, a clerk in the Lands and Titles
Ofice in South Australia, has been dismiosed
from the service for writing a letter in a news
paper reflecting on the Surveyor-General.
At a conference of mineowners in Sydney
yesterday it was decided to reduce the rate of
K deputation from the clothing trade in
Melbourne yesterday appealed to the Premier
to reduce the duty on woollen piece goods from
60 to 20 per cent.
The Union Steamship Company's crews in
New Zealand are accepting the reduced rate of
wages.
James Martin, a non-unionist employed on
the steamer Cintra, was brutally assaulted in
Sydney yesterday. * ।
The match Australians v. Second-class
Counties was continued on Tuesday. The Aus
tralians concluded their first innings for 143,
and the Englishmen in their second innings
scored I54,
Replying to a question in the House of Com
mons the I’ostmaster-General stated that the
acceptance of the suggestions adopted by the
Intercolonial Postal Conference in Brisbane
with regard to the Australian mails was still
undecided, as an important question was
involved.
Cardinal Moran will sail on his return to
Australia about the end of October.
A conference representing a quarter of a
million miners, exclusive of those of Scotland,
Northumberland, and Durham, is sitting in
London. The delegates representing those dis
tricts were expelled owing to the miners not
joining in the strike.
Owing to the scarcity of coal, caused by the
miners’ strike, the Midland Railway Company
are losing £10,000 per week, the Great Eastern
Railway Company £10,000, and the Great
Northern Railway Company £18,000.
The miners’ strike in the south of Wales is
drawing to a close, owing to the want of funds.
A thousand strikers attempted to enter the
Ebbw Valo collieries and overawe the miners
engaged there, but their designs were frustrated.
Cholera is still spreading in Russia, and
nearly 1000 deaths are reported weekly, chiefly
in Moscow.
Another death supposed to be from cholera
has been reported in London.
Tho division on the third reading of the
Home Rule Bill is to be taken in the House of
Commons on the 1st September, and the debate
on the bill will commence in the House of
Lords on the 11th.
The Vacation Judge in Londonhas sanctioned
the reconstruction scheme of Goldsbrough,
Mort, and Co.
Tho death is announced of tho Duke of Saxo
Coburg and Gotha. The Duke of Edinburgh
succeeds to the ducal throne, and thus becomes
a reigning German Prince.
Ten persons were drowned by the capsizing
of a yacht at Skegness, on the east coast of
England.
The native garrison at Kisinyu, on the
east coast of Africa, have revolted and killed the
British East Africa Company's superintendent.
The other oflicers escaped to the steamer Kenia,
but are reported to bo in a dangerous position.
The prospects of a speedy and unconditional
repeal of the Sherman Silver Act in America
are stated to be improving. |
Serious rioting has taken place in Vienna, 1
and many of the police were injured. I
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