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ODDS AHD EíáOS. .
?Destructive fire <it Hons.
Light showers have b^eu falliug tile last foi
«lays.
Showery weather continues on the nort
.coast.
Time for sugar rebite applications has bee
..extended till September 30
Kenuiffs.' trial postponed until November an
will theu be bearii ut Brisbane.
Dr. Lang, niffragan iii.shop of Stepney, bf
. declined the See ot Melbourne.
The ease Wilsou v. Matu 1 Lifo Insurant:
. Coy. lt is reported ha» b-eii settled.
Victorian 3 per cent. Government bonds ai
. now being sold over the counter ut £111.
Funeral procession of thu late Mr A. A
. O'Flynn the largest eivr witnessed here.
Cane owners must make application for rt
.-bate duty within a mundi of b.. imf «eut to mill:
Good ranis have fallen over Western India
. saving the crops »u l diveitmg au immédiat
.famiuY.
A bullock from Tenterfield mule i."0 5-, bein]
.the highest price ever paid for a ba Huck ai
Homebush.
Mr. Arthur Quintal, the eldest member of tb
/Pitcairn community at Norfolk Island, died oi
the 20th instant.
Mr. O'Sullivan states that in view of the re
trenchment proposal.] of the G ivj-'i'iiuieut the
: road vote will be cut down.
The general manager i.f tho Colonial Sugar re
.fining Company, Mr Knox, says that cune cut
ting rates could nut be advanced.
Tue Inter-Slate Labor conference will be op
-.-t led in Syduey ou November -it, when six dele
...Jitea from euch State will attend.
A deputation bus been promised by thc
Queensland Premier that ho would introduce ti
. bill extending the fiuuchisr to women.
A stutue tu the memory of the late Premier,
.. Mr. Byrnes, wus iinvei'' . in Brisbane on Friday
. by Sir fleury Chermsid . .i« Goveitier.
Jack Hing, a Chinam ai, died ut Tingha from
the bite of a Ueuth ¡allier. He walked to bia
j home, two mile» ..istant, after being bitten.
Tho British War Office ts experimenting on it
new la-pounder field gnu, which promises to be
superior to that pussesse I by any other Power.
David Matheson (08> wus caught in some
belting at a tulmer/ut Ulladulla on Thureday
. aud was .dashed to death against thu roof of u
building.
Seven days before tho disaster, John Morrison
. stated be went iu to the waste workings of the
Mount Kembla mine, and saw black damp, but
. did not report it.
The work of suppressing the fires on thosteain
. er Apurima. at Albany, proved diliicult. On
Friday evening the vessel had settled down on
. the harbor bottom.
Thu Treasurer, iu answer to Mi-. Uroughton,
said there was on June 30. 1111)2, at the credit ol'
the assurance fund under Hie lieu I Property
Act, £107.03* Os 0.1.
Chief Naval Carp-Miter Newham, stationed nt
-Garden Ldund, »tated that there was enough
ruum for 3000 men to marali on the iron deck ol'
the Drayton Grange.
Thu Dungog corr-spoil lent of a southern
paper says that of 2.'i.ou!) h end ot cat tie brought
to the Port .Stevens district 10,000 will have
died before tho spring.
Grab dredge cleaning the river below tho
N.C S N. Coy. wharf A number of stones have
been taken ont, being reniai ns of ballast cast
out by timber vessels in emly days.
The Mount Kembla colliery proprietors huvt)
recognised the bravery of .Messrs. A. Frost, jun.,
. J. Morrison, M. Frost, und D. Evans, rescuers,
by presenting them with gold pendants.
lu opening the Cape Parliament nu Wednes
day, the Governor announced 'he introduction
of indemnity bills, covering the proclamation
of martini law mut unauthorised expenditure.
Tue infant (laughter of Mr. J. J, Hobbins, of
Quorn, S.A. pulled a tub ol' boiling water over
herself while her motlier was washing, mid w is
so frightfully scalded that she died a IVw hours
. later:
At a meeting of the agricultural eociety nt
' Wollongong on Wednesday night a let ter was
received fruin the Attorney-General refusing
permission fur milling at the forthcoming
.bazaar.
"The Times" advises Sir E ltiiund Harton to
take a larger view ol the problema of Australian
politics, instancing the growing discontent in
. Queensland with the policy and conduct of the
i eilend Government.
' The Times' main'nins that, the nppoiutuiont
of a Colonial Commission, as required -hy tho
Afrikander Doini party, would ha a slight to
G rent Britain, since Lord Alveotone's Commis
sion has been uppoiuted.
A meeting of the Scottish Rifle Football Club
will be held in the Orderly room ut hnlE-past S
o'clock to-inorrow (Thnr day) evening. 2U.h
inst It is desired that every member should
attend as the businessis of importuner.
The Treasurer, in answer to Mr. KOSÜ in the
Assembly, said the mnoimts paid us interest on
the public debt for the punt , three years were
as follows :-Dining the year ended June 30.
1000, was £2.310.010; during the year einled
?lune 30. 1001. £2,.'M0.SIS; during the year ended j
June 30, 1002, £2,-100,71N.
At the Paddington Court, a limn iiuin"d
Stewart was proceeded against upon il charge I
of using water for other than domestic pur
poses, he not being entitled to do so. An in
spector of the board saw the water mulling ]
from the tap of the defendant's giirden.it lull
speed. Defendant was find £1, with costs.
Neil Johnson, the younger of tho two brothers
who were shot by Constable Ualltihrr ut Bur
wood on August 2, was on far improved on
Thursday as to be able to leave the hospital.
His brother Heury is still in the institution, but
is progressing steadily. Edmund Turner, who
was shot iu the foot on the sumo occasion, is
riso still un inmate of the hospital.
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