Please wait. Contacting image service... loading

Article text

FRANCE AND EGYPT.
CAIRO, April, 29.
It is announced that Nubar Pasha, Egyptian
Minister for Foreign Affairs, has apologised to M.
Lequex, French Charge de L'Agencie, Cairo, for  
the suppression of the Bosphore Egyptien. In
consequence of this apology the paper will resume    
publication.
To-day's issue of this journal printed with a gas
engine.
The Western channel at Sydney heads was closed
for navigation on Tuesday last and lines of torpedoes
will be laid down to protect the city and shipping.
The offer of the New South Wales contingent for
service in India, has been made by Government, and
pay guaranteed at present rate.
The board of Technical Education proposes to
provide scholarships for students who may dis-
tinguish themselves at the Metropolitan Industrial
Institute or its branch technical schools in the coun-
try districts, in order that such students may have
the advantage of the higher training of the Sydney
University.
With regard to the claim of the N.S.W. Government
against the Oriental Bank, instructions have been
received from the official Liquidator stating that the
full amount of principal, with a small sum in
interest, has been paid into the Treasury. The
Government, therefore, suffer no loss.
S. J. Henderson, of the Melbourne Cycling Club,
rode 100 miles on Saturday in 9 hours and 24½
minutes, that being the quickest time in which the
distance has been covered in this colony.
The People's Cyclopedia says the Russian public
debt in 1880 was £416,283,586, and her expenditure
exceeded the revenue by £6,714,682. The same
authority give the total of Russians only £22,100,000,
while Great Britain has £142,399,000, the popula-
tion of Russia being in the proportion of 2 to 1.
Mrs. E. R. Fillingham, relict of the late Rev.
Joseph Fillingham, at one time stationed at Grafton,
died recently at Paddington.
The New Zealand Government is arranging for
purchase of district railways, in accordance with
the act of last session. The Manuwatu (Wellington),
Rotorua (Auckland), and Asburton Forks (Canter-
bury) line have already been arranged for.
Bishop Redwood, Roman Catholic bishop of
Wellington, N.Z., left hurriedly in the Ruapheu for
Europe. The reason of his journey has not been
disclosed.
The telegram from the Soudan says that our
artillery corps in its present state is almost useless
and that a suggestion has been made that the guns
should be returned, and the men transformed into a
corps of mounted infantry.
It is very clear that if the main protection of the
Sydney harbour is to depend upon our scientific
knowledge of the manipulation of explosives, some
professional opinion quite outside that we possess
in the colony is desirable to assure us that those
who have to handle them for defensive purposes  
understand what they are about.
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF NEW SOUTH WALES.
-Congregational meetings of the members of the
Ulmarra and Grafton churches were held on Tues-
day last, at Ulmarra, at 2 p.m., and at Grafton at
7.30 p.m. The Rev. J. Burgess, M.A., interim Modera-
tor of the Presbytery, presided at each meeting, and
made a touching reference to the loss the church
has sustained that day in the death of Mr. J. M'Far-
lane, a member of the Ulmarra session. It was
resolved at both meetings that for the furtherance
of the Presbyterian cause in this Presbytery, lt was
advisable to sever the Ulmarra and Grafton charges,
and attach the former to a new charge to be formed
between those of Grafton and Rocky Mouth. The
members at Grafton considered their charge if effi-
ciently worked ought soon to be self-sustaining. A
committee of management was elected at Grafton,
and the question of building a new church was con-
sidered. It was the unanimous opinion of those
present that a new brick church should be erected,
and a resolution to this effect was adopted, em-
powering the committee to procure designs for a
building of this kind, suitable for present require-
ments, and that would admit of enlargement here-
after. The present expenditure is estimated to
exceed £1000. It was decided to introduce
" Church Praise," now being generally adopted by
Presbyterian Churches, a volume which contains,
in addition to the Psalms of David, a wider choice
of hymns that that found in the paraphrases. The
decision of the congregation will, we believe, meet
with the sanction of the Presbytery.
Oh ! mother, I have just heard that Mr Horwitz
has returned from Sydney, and the low prices he is
selling his new goods is something marvellous.-
ADV.
HALF-WAY HOUSE RACES.-The following are
the weights for the Bush Handicap, to be run on
25th May :-
Mr. Armstrong's Serf ..............9 0
P. Holland's Bandon Lass.........8 4
Small's Quickstep..................... 7 2
Patterson's Secundus............... 7 0
Armstrong's Holy Joe...............6 10
T. M'Fadden's Cambusean.......6 o
Nominations for Maiden Plate-
Cambuscan Secundus
My Queen Knight Errant Osman colt.
WONDERFUL BARGAINS IN FURNITURE.-The
auctioneer has been instructed to dispose of the
balance privately - W. Small, junior, Prince-street.
-ADV.
EMPLOYEE V. EMPLOYER.-A case having pecu-  
liar interest to employers was decided on Monday
in the Central Police Court, Sydney. It bears upon
the right of the employer to summarily dismiss an
employee should he refuse to do his duty, and be
simply liable for the pay due up to that time.
Mesrs. Lassetter and Co, were sued for one week's  
wages, and also another week's wages in lieu of
notice, by one of their hands, who relied upon a
a clause in his agreement which said that it could be
nullified by giving one week's work notice should he not
give satisfaction ; but the acting stipendiary magis-
trate pointed out that there was a previous clause
whereby the employee binds himself to do whatever
shall be required of him, and as in this particular
case the man positively refused to do certain work,
he had rendered himself liable to instant dismissal,
and to be paid only up to the actual time he had
worked. A sum in satisfaction of the claim had
been paid into court, and the decision was, there
fore, in favour of the employer, a verdict for the
defendant being given.-E. News.
Commpetition has cheapened the fares per coach
between Lismore and Ballina, it being now possible
to make thc trip for 5s in one coach, and 7s 6d. in
the other.
$