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NEWS AND NOTES.

IN another column appears the announcement
of a patriotic concert for Queen's Birth-
day, under the direction of Mr. Julius Here.
An excellent programme of national music
has been arranged, fuller particulars of
which will appear in to-morrow's issue.

THE first of the series of assembly dances
organised in Fremantle, and similar in
arrangement to the pleasant dances held hurt
year, will take place next Friday evening in

the Town Hall. We are informed that intending
visitors may obtain tickets from the
hon. secretary, Mr. E. Graham Price.

ANOTHER small-pox patient was removed to
the Subiaco encampment yesterday. This
was Mrs. Owen, residing in Lamb-street, who
had been ill for nine or ten days, at her
house in Lamb-street The case is a very
mild one, Mrs. Owen being almost convales-
cent. There were six children in the house,
all of whom had been revaccinated. Yester-
day Mr. Owen was also re-vaccinated, and
the house was thoroughly fumigated.

A CORRESPONDENT writes to us as follows:
For the last week or so there has been wandering
about in an awful state of starvation,
and is at the present time lying in a dying
state near Bulwer-street. I cannot say who
is the present owner of the horse, but surely
he ought to be taught the way to treat an
animal when it had earned its master a living,
and that it should not be turned out to die.
The horse is now to be seen in a block
opposite Mr. E. Keane's residence, between
Randell and Bulwer streets.

THE Volunteer corps of Perth, Fremantle and
Guildford, will parade in review, order on Wednesday
the 24th inst., at 11.1 a.m., on
the New Recreation Ground, Perth. h Each
men of the Infantry corps will be furnished
with three rounds of blank ammunition, under
corps arrangements. The Metropolitan
Rifles will furnish a Guard of, Honour for
His Excellency the Governor's levee, consisting
of all available men, under the corns
mind of a captain with their band.

A MELBOURNE correspondent writes-Mr"
heard recently that a young dramatist from
Western Australia, Mr. Herman Mandelstam,
had been successful in inducing one of our
leading theatrical managers to stage a piece
of his. The rumour is confirmed, and it is
understood that Mr. Bland Holt is now
arranging for the production of " The High-
way of Life," written by the young westerner.
I hear also that some leading amateurs are
rehearsing a one act play, written by Mr.
Mandelstam, and in which the author has
given his artistic fancy full liberty. It is to
be the principal feature at a fashionable
entertainment to be given in aid of the Melbourne
Woman's Hospital in a few weeks

time.

AT the conclusion of the meeting of the
Local Board of Health last evening, attention
was drawn by one of the councillors to the
use of the name Subiaco for the fever encampment.
This, it appears, has caused
some annoyance to residents of the locality
and owners of property in the neighbourhood.
What renders the sense of injury greater is-
the fact that Subiaco is a complete misnomer
for the encampment, which is sufficiently
removed as to be altogether outside the
boundaries of that suburb. Cr. McKernan,
who, by request, brought the matter before
the board, said the name of "Sylvan" had
been suggested for the encampment. The

suggestion was received with some amuse- '
ment, most of those present evidently possessing
insufficient imagination to enable them
to associate such a poetic name with
such an Jinpoetio complaint as small-pox
The matter is, however, to come up at the
next meeting, and perhaps, by that time.

some of our readers will be able to assist in
the bestowal of a name which, while it may
not be so poetic as " Sylvan," will not be so
misleading as "Subiaco," nor yet so unhappily
suggestive as "Variola."
THE preliminary inquiry into the wreck of
the full-rigged iron ship Ulidia, which struck on
the outer northern edge of the Straggler j
Rocks, about midway between Rottnest and
Fremantle, on the morning of the 18th inst., was
opened yesterday, at the Harbour Master's
Office, Fremantle. The Court consisted of Mr.
Clayton T. Mason, JP-, Collector of I
Customs, and Captain Russell, J.P., Chief
Harbour Master. There were s JJ ven witnesses
examined, namely, Captain J. McAdam, the
first and second mates, the carpenter, helms
man, donkeyman, and leads-man. The evidence,
so far as the immediate cause of the
disaster is concerned, seems to be very con- j
sistent, almost all of the witnesses ascribing
the fact of the ship missing stays to the
existence of unlooked for force in the southerly current
assisted by the ship not having sum
< cient wind to place her more-under control. The
< captain and officers consider that 1,000 tons
of ballast was ample for the ship, and the
mate believes that the accident might have
happened if she had 2,000 tons aboard. The
first and second mates admit, under examination
by the court, that had the starboard
anchor been let go when the ship was brought
head to wind, she would have come round and
answered her helm, as there was less way on
her then than when the anchor was let go.
The decision of the court will be given this
afternoon, at 3 o'clock.
SHORTLY after a quarter-past six last evening,
Messrs. King and R. P. Brown' reported
at the Central Police Station that a fire had
broken out in the People's Cash Store, in
- Barrack-street, which is kept by Messrs.
Yell 9 Therm. The fire-bell was rung in.
' mediately, and in a very short space of time
a large crowd collected, and there were
nearly a dozen firemen on the spot with their
" hose, which they had connected with the
nearest fire-plug- In the meanwhile, how.
sever, constables had been despatched to the
building, and they, finding the front door
looked, went round to the back of the premises,
and with several other men effected
an entrance there by forcing open the back
door. Upon entering the shop, they found
the fire burning behind the counter, and that
a part of the fittings, together with some
groceries and other goods in packets, were
alight. A few buckets of water thrown upon
the flames were sufficient to extinguish them,
i and by the time the. Metropolitan Fire
Brigade arrived there was no need for their
services. The origin of the fire is unknown.
Some matches were among the burning
goods, but no connection between them and
the origin of the fire was traced. The proprietors
of the store state that when they
closed at about five minutes after six everything
was, apparently, all tight. The stock
and fittings were insured for 3500, and the
damage done is estimated at about £7.
THE Melbourne Argus of the 13th dust,
states The West Australian wines sent
over to the late Wine, Fruit, and Grain Ex
exhibition were submitted to the judgment of
well-known Victorian experts at the Exhibition
cellars, this being the first occasion on
which they were so submitted in bulk to critical
judgment. In a great many instances it
was that wines naturally promising
been badly treated, while in others the
rowers had, somewhat unwisely, and in
order to meet an uneducated taste, sought to
apply supposed natural deficiencies by heavy
fortification. The opinion of most of the
judges present was that the wines had been
matured in. imported sherry casks in
which considerably more than the legs
had been left. "Most of the light wines bad
I a strong sherry character in flavour, while
many were noticeable for a very decided
muscat bouquet. At the close of the tasting,
however, both Mr. B. H. Caughey, the president
of the Wine Association, and Mr. H. M.
Gooch, a member of that body and a leading
judge, were able to assure Mr. Jacoby, the
representative of the West Australian
growers, that many of the growers had the
right soil and the right vines, and were
working on the light lines in order to
secure an eventual success with natural
wines, and urged West Australian growers
to depend more on natural qualities,
and to avoid as far as possible aiming at'
what are called " commercial wines." Probably
the best of the samples shown were
those from Houghton Vineyard, owned by
Mr. Ferguson's persevering grower, who
was said to have gained all he knew from
actual experience. One of his light wines
a Verdeilho would have taken high points
anywhere. Others of Mr. Ferguson's wines
were highly thought of, as it was considered
that the possibilities of certain success were
prominent y present. Two young heavy
clarets by this grower were considered sound
and promising wines, and would have
pleased those who like tannin or a weedy
flavour. A light wine of exquisite bouquet,
considered very valuable for blending, was
grown by Mr. Henty, Cobham (sic); and
other promising; wines by Mr. Easton, of
Fremantle, and Mr Fauntleroy, of Red Cliff.
Mc Jacoby, on behalf of the West Australian
vignerons, thanked those present for
their opinions, and said he was sure all they
had said upon the subject, whether in praise
or blame, would be esteemed of value in
Western Australia.
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