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Palmerston : Saturday, June 16.
Messrs. Millar Broa, barque " Armistice "
has been beached near Cook's Jetty for
repairs.
The Port Darwin Rifle Club will meet at
their range this afternoon for practice at
200 and 300 yards.
We understand that Messrs. P. R. Allen
&, Go. have again secured, the contract for
the supply of stores to Government depart-
ments.' ' The contract terminates June 30th,
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By the "Tsinan,'? Dr. Wood and Mr.
C. G. Millar returned to Port Dar-
win ; we feel : sure that we express the
feelings of readers when we say that we are
glad to welcome them back. ' '
.Among the cargo per s.s. "Menmuir'?'
there are a quantity of iron, poles and other
telegraph material for the transfer of the
Une to the railway, and a quantity of bridge
work, &c, for Messrs. Millar Bros.::
"By the "Menmuir " the E. S.;'& A. C.
Bank have shipped 444 bags, containing
about 22 tons of tin ore,"to^Messrs.';Hussey^
and Vivian, ' Swansea, for treatment and
sale. This parcel is from the Bynoe Harbour
properties, held' by Knight «and others,
and is'shipped on their account:
< The Post-Office authorities have been ad-
vised that the contract steamer " Catter-
thun" left Hongkong for Port Darwin and
other Australian ports on the 9th inst. The
agents, however, are advised of her sailing'
oh the 11th, and desire us to state, that she
Will not leave here before the 20th inst.
Mr. Knight, the Deputy Returning Officer
for the Northern District of the Legislative
Council,1 has received notice that nominations
of candidates to supply the vacancy caused
by the tesignation of Mr. .W. Wadham, will
be received, on Wednesday, June 27th, and
that if more candidates are nominated than
there are vacancies, further proceedings will
be adjourned till Wednesday, July 11th,
when.tHe election:will takle; place. '['
A Committee meeting of the N. T. Racing
Club was held at ^e Termmu8 Hotel on,
Saturday evening last, when J. T. Whelan's
tender tp prepare the courge for £18 was
accepted. :? 1 The resolution passed on May
17th, fixing the top weight for the cup at
list, was rescinded, and the weights were
left, in the hands of the* handicapped The
booth and settling night were sold to W.*
Harrison for-£13. The meeting then ad
joiirned sine die.
Mr. E. 0. Robinson informs us that the
, Malays have had a very successful fishing
?season on the north coast ; eleven proas
' were engaged, and they are believed to have
averaged £1000 worth of trepang, tortoise
shell, etc.,: per proa. .This season,..strange,
to say, Trepang Bay, Port Essington, and
the neighbouhood of Croker Island, where
bêche-de-mer usually abound, are1almost
entirely bare of the fish. There have" been
various encounters between the Malays and
the mainland natives during the season.
One proa lost three men, and another proa
one man, at the hands of the aboriginals.
On Wednesday evening last a fracas,
occurred in the native camp on Lammeroö
Beach, during which Ned, who was1 suffer-
ing from the effects of liquor, speared Rowdy
in three places with a stone spear. Rowdy's
wounds, in both hands and° right arm, are
not very serious," and were dressed on Thursr
day morning by Doctor Wood. It is a pity
that the practice of supplying grog to aborigi-i
nais cannot be stopped by the -imposition of -
heavy penalties. It seems almost a mistake
to interfere with tribal customs, whether,
rites and ceremonies or offences andpenalties,
but every effort should be. used to discover
and punish persons, who, by supplying grog
to them, rob them of that control over their
passions that sobriety might enable them,
to exercise.
- Mr. Debross has finished1 his ¡contract for
the erection of the Roman Catholic Chapel
in Smith-street, in a "highly "creditable
manner, i Some tune ago.- Mr.* Debross was
asked for an estimate, and told the amount
of money available for the- purpose. He
prepared plans for a chapel to .seat 100
persons, measuring 19* 37ft. in the clear,
with an 8ft. verandah right around ; walls
13ft. 6in. from floor to wall plate, and a
gable roof with a further elevation of 10 feet
to the ridge. The walls to be of pine hoards
let into grooves in cypress pine studs ; floor
and verandah to be cemented. Roof to be
galvanised iron ; a vestry 12 x 8 to be built
at the S»E. end under the verandah. Doors
to be 7 + 3ft. Gin., with the upper half louvred
and lighted with six windows each 5+3,
with gothic tops filled in with coloure/d
"lass. Mr. Debross estimated that a build-'
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ing according to the above specifications
could be erected for £300. Tenders were
advertised for, but the lowest tenderer (a
Chinaman) was £85 above the estimate. M/r.
Debross thereupon undertook to carry dut
the work for the amount of his estimate, and
has, after about a month's work, turned/out
tlie most ecclesiastical looking edifice in
Palmerston. The woodwork has been'var-
nished, and with the ornamented principals,
makes the interior a very neat little chapel.
A bell-cote is built on the veranda» over the
front door, and erelqng we way t/ipect to
hear the call to matins or vesper/a sounding
from another " church-going ftell," which
erstwhile did duty as ship's bell on the
missionary vessel " Ellangowan^»
The quarterly meeting of the Palmerston
Licensing Bench was held on Tuesday last,
when all the applications, particulars of
which will be found in the Government
Gazette column, were granted. Mrs. Ryan
lodged the plans for a new hotel to be
erected on allotment 523 Smith-street, near
the Commercial Bank, and known as Griffiths'.
The plans are for a two-storey stone building,
which will, when erected, be an ornament to
the town.
An unusual spectacle was witnessed on Ji.
Tuesday morning last. r A Chinaman was
brought into the township with his hands
tied behind him, and a rope attached. One
of his captors walked in front leading him,
while ^he other brought up the rear. It
appears that for some time Sing Whon, a
Chinese laborer, has noticed that his rice
was being stolen, but without being able tq
detect the thief ; a watch was set, and Mat
Snu, perhaps rendered overbold by bia
previous success, fell into it with the result
above stated. He was brought before the
magistrate on Tuesday, and sentenced tq
three months imprisonment with hard labour.
At the general conference of the Wesleyan '.
Church in Australasia, that has just finished
its session in Melbonrne, it was decided to
send a Chinese missionary to the Chinese in.
the Northern Territory, as soon as possible.^
He will be a Chinese convert, whq wjll not t
only be able to preach the gospel to his
fellow countrymen'in their own tongue buj;''
will also call to his aid a personal knoWRtîge
of Chinese manners,' customs, and literature.
There is plenty of scope for such s teacher,
and it is to be hoped -that4ns efforts will
tend to the improvement of the habits and
morals of those he teaches and preaches to.
- We regret to have to report the death of
another well-knpwn Territorial^ Mr.'/Harry
Gosse, who arrived in the Territory in
August, 1880. Thç ^egraphed, information)
to hand if necesearily" brief- f from" it we
gather that aboulPtHe end of last móqfh Mr.'*
Gosse got astray fróni Delamere head station."
Thorough search was made;by the station)
hands, "assisted by natives, but* without;
-finding the^anderer,firotU Monday last^
when his remains jfrere found about four
miles north of Deiarhere. Mr. (Soase Fas a
son, we believe thcr_f¡hírd, of the: late Dr.
tVm. Gosse, of Adelaide, and a brother-in?
law of the Hon. Alexander Hayy M^Lp;
' The meeting in the Tow« Bfall, oh Mon-
day evening laati on the 1 Local. Müitery
Force question, turned out'.a success, al:
though at first, probably' owing to the
differences' in time between £hV different
clocks, and consequent late arrivals, it
threatened to collapse for want' pf support.
By 8.30 there was an attendance > of about
40 persons, and a few more came in later.
After a long conversational discussion, it'
was ultimately decided, to forma Volunteer
Force, and that the Company would be con-
sidered formed when 60' men -had been en-
rolled. The Chairman ; (Afrl Parsons), on
behalf of the Government, undertook to
have some slips printed, detailing the regu-
lations, etc., under which1 men^-WOuld be
enrolled, and to have them distributed to .
proposing volunteers. It was decided/tq
have a meeting for enrolling members at 8.3Q<v t
p.m. on Monday nexfy in the Town HalL
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