Northern Territory Times and Gazette (Darwin, NT : 1873 - 1927), Thursday 14 August 1913, page 7


NEWS & NOTES

A very fine assortment of Jewellery,

imported direct f rom> London, now ¡ open At A. E. Jolly and Co's.

Wanted to purchase a Portable forge. Apply, stating price, to McNulty, care of E. V. V. Brown.

It is reported that work will short!y be recommenced on the old Ironblow mine at Yam Creek, but wc know no details.

The Federal SS Stuart left Darwin for Borrolcola on Thursday afternoon last, with the members of the N T. Railways Commission on board. Also a considerable quantity of cargo-and

coal.

An escaped aboriginal prisoner named Binghie, who got away from Fannie Bay early in the year, »va? brought ia by M.C McDonald by Tuesday's train. There is said to now be only cne escapee from the .Fannie Bay retreat still wandering-the bush in freedom, an aboriginal named Biily.

Two noticeaole shocks of earth-quake were experienced recently in Darwin, each occurring in the early morning hours: The fiist occurred, on the morning* of Monday, 4th, the other on the morning of Thursday," 7th inst. The vibration was strong er.oi-gh to cause iron houses to tremble and rattle.

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There is some ia!k c1 steps being taken to raise capital for the pros-pecting of a big iron blow formation about i£ miles from Brock's Creek. This outcrops for about i860 feet, shows stains of copper, and an author-itative opinion bas oeen expressed that the lode may contain good metal in the sulphide zone.

The ss Monto! o arrived from Singa-pore on Thursday morning, and re-sumed her voyage southward early on Friday morning. « (There weie two European passengers inwards, adn the cargo included 150 tons of Japanese coal said to be for the use of th.3 Federal Govt, ss Stuart. Nine E_o«'pean passengers were booked outwards and* öo tons cargo.

The proposal to open the Panama Canal to the world's traffic in Janu-ary, 1915. still stands, despite recent slides which haye much delayed the work. These slides have been recur-ring with sinister frequency during the past few months, and are causing anxious misgivings in the Unite«! States as elsewhere in the engineering World. The theory that the water, when let in, will hold up the banks at the Culebra Cul is being regarded .with greater doubt, notwithstanding the blind confidence in the soundness of this theory manifested by the Canal 'Administration. Only last month a fresh slide was reported at Cucaracha ¡which filled the cut to the 67 feet

level.

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Carl Liuderoph, mining prospector, of Victoria River, who lias been com-mitted for trial on a serious charge

in connection «with the alleged* illtreatment and^ su1-sequent death of an aboriginal was brought down by Tues-day's train by M.-C. C. McDonald, having travelled in overland from the

Victoria River district.

A correspondent writes calling at-tention to the vast improvement that fnight easily be effected in the effi-ciency of the light at Point Emery by substituting a brilliant acetylene for the dim kerosene at present in use He argues that a small 5-light Sun ' generator p'aced at tne f jot of the ¡ tower, and which might Vc easily pro' tected from the weather by a few

sheets of galvanised iror>, would supj ply all the gas required to keep one I brillant liight burning for 12 hours ;

. that it would be far less trouble to

( keep ia order; and would be far and

away more eff«-ctive than the present arrangement. This light would cost . little if any more than kerosene,

whilst it wo»j*d *hov a brilliant light cîcarïy visible mil\s bc»ond the radius , of the latter.

Mr. W. McGregor, the erratic cotw jpoMtor who walked across Australia a few years ago from south' to north and from east to west, and an exten-sive account of whose adventures was accepted and published in the Sydney Evening News, turned up suddenly, at this office on Thursday morning last looking in much better feather than when he landed in Dai win from his long tramp overland. He came down in the ss "Mon'.oro from Singa-pore. Since leaving here he has ap-parently rolled around the. greater part of the universe, having 'roamea.thro igh and worked in England, Europe, Af-rica, Egypt, Sou'h America, and vari-ous other places. The old proverb re the rolling stone apparently applies in Mr. McGregor's case. He has gathered a vast store of varied ex-periences, but little cash. He is stay-ing in (this tropical paradise for a time, and is anxious for employment.

H.E. Dr. Gilruth is making a fly-ing trip fto the interesting country about the Flora Fa'Is, which has been spoken of so highly by some of the witnesses examined recently before the

N T. Railways Commission. He is ! understood to have travelled out from Pine Creek by motor car, and is ex-pected back in Darwin about Friday

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Late exchanges s^ate that the Co>k Government had same d.fficu'ty in fill-ing the position of Speaker in the

Federal Parliament carrying a salary , of £1500 a year, not to mentlo?. tha

honour of the position. Rep. McDnn- ' aid was reported to have declined it, and Bruce Smith explained in a speech

of some length that his freedom was J

dearer io "im than such a billet ' Elliotl-Johnsoi was finally e'ected on the motion of Co'.' Rylie seconded by

! Irvine.

At an enthusiastic meeting held in Town Hall on the 4th inst., it was de-cided to formi a Workers" Amus?ment

Club, the first object being to obtain j funds to buy instruments to start, a Brass Band. Mr. R. C. Lister was

appointed Chairman with Mr. J. King j Secretary, and Mr. R. M. Balding ¡ Assistant Secretary; Mr. Berghoeffer J was elected Treasurer. It was re- _ solved to write H.E. the Administra- | tor, asking him to act as Patron to the ¡ Club; also that Mr. C. J. Kirkland ( fae asked to accept the position of

President, and Mr, W. C. P. Bell , that of Vice-President. After dis- i cussion ir was decided to hold a con- j cert at an early date, and the com!- < mitree was inundated with offers of as-sistance. The members are now en-

gaged in çictive- rehearsals for tftis j performance. ¡

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urgical Supply House, Brisbane, We have been requested by Mes-dames Woigai and Wither Jen to rec-tify an omission in the reference in last issue of the farewell afternoon tea and presentation to Mrs, C. L. Strang-man. These ladies, on behalf of the women of Darwin, wish to publicly thank Miss Mattie Robe ts for th_ brave and zea'ous and tactful way in which she carried cu,t ( he too often 'dis-tasteful task of collecting subscriptions m connection with this demonstration.

Capt. Lewis succeeded in carrying off the prire offered by the \oministrator in a (»on-hnadicap- contest on the Palmerston Rifle Range on Saturday afternoon last. The conditions were io shots and 2 sighters, the distance 500 yards. The atmospheric condi-tions were not of the best. The win-ner scored 44, the other best scores being L. Williams 43, and IT. Po:f 43 Mr. Burgoyne, the well-known crack rifle shot, fired over the range with the others just by way ot keeping his hand and eye in, and compiled 45.

Mr. Tatlock describes the remark-able effects of a &tortn on the Douglas, as seen by hhn recently A strip for fully hal/ a 'mile wide and for an un-known number of miles in length, is cleared as if by a huge scythe-the /imber, many f>f the trees being of large sue, being snapped o'ff like so many straws. This storm muct hv» occurred some time during the latter end of last wet season. A complete track half a (mile wide, is cut through the bush for as far as the eye can see.

The District Council has just let

rather a big contract for the| widening and metalling of about 4 chains of that important artery of local traffic, Bennett-street. The contract includes the breaking of some 300 yards of road meta1, which is badly needed for the repair of other streets. It is a question for the serious consideration r'f the City Fathers, in view of the j amount of work that is lo-ming in the j near future as absolutely imperative)

whether the installing of a mechanical ' rock breaker, run by power, would

not be a ¡^avable investment in the inj terests of the ratepayers. ,

¡ Over 12,000 irade unionists atten-ded the funeral of tharse killed in the

( rorsnl Johannesburg riots. Thî So' c'alist wreath was insciibed-"In mem-

ory of our rnarivrs who were foully , murdered in co'd blood by the capi, taiist class." The militavv foyers emI ployed in quelling tha disorder con>

'piiscd 730 Hussars and Dragoons, ; 2400 Scots Fusiliers, Bedfords, and j Sou'h Stafford« hires, and 3000 police.

1 The rioters included numbers of "half; cv^e" rn^a .«=. There are over 200,! r-oo ratives on the Rand, among whom

the r'^'ing raided great mrest. If ! 'be f»*horities ha'! n^t fken n riç"?.ermitCKf s:at«"l indctril '.Me horror?

! would probably ,have been recrded. j From one ntining compound 1500 na-

tives broke loose, armed with pick

handles.

r "Shellback" writes: "In view of I $he tremendous expenditure of pub-

lic money that'has been taking place in this Territory during the past 12 or 18 months, is it not a disgraoelul {¡act that there ts not a single spot all lound the harbour foreshore where one can land horn or embark on a boat at low water tides without wad-ing through a sea of mud or scramb-ling over acres ot coral reef or oyster strewn rocks. The old Gulnare Jetty used to be a convenience of sorts in this connection, but the Gulnare Jetty» like the majority of old Territorians, is practically, a wreck. The boat steps at the Railway Pier was designed to meet this difficulty, and with ordinary care and supervision might do so. But the present condition of these steps-, fiom high water to low water mark, is a disgrace to whoever is respon-sible. - I had occasion to land there the other day at low water, and for the greater part of the distance the ; s'eps and 'handrail are coated with

accumulated masses of marine growth which render them positively danger-ous. Why have they been allowed to get into such a condition? Once* cleaned, a day orNtwo's attention in each month would keep them clean. I trust the responsible authorities will make a ,'note of this piotest, and put a man or men »n to chip these steps during the approaching spring tides."

The following note, received in a private letter from Java bv ss Mon» toro on 7th inst, and dated Buitenzorg, July 24, contains a more optim! istic opinion regarding the s.tuation i in Java than that contained in a com1 nuuication from another Javanese cor

resj.»or dent published in this paper a few weeks ago, in which a possible 1 revolutionary rising among the native

.population, due ito the machinations of a Stciety known as the Sarikat is-lam, was referred to. It may be re-marked that this latest correspondent is an Australian who has resided for many years in Java, that he has an in-timate knowledge of "native character and the conditions in Java, and- that his opinion on this question should ! therefore possess more than ordinary ¡value. He writes: "Re the question

! of a possible repetition of the horro/s "* ! of the-Indian Mutiny in Java, there , is, in my opinion, not the slightest ¡ foundation for such a "rumeur. The j note in your paper from a Javanese , correspondent is the «fVnt I (hffve heard' of it. In fart it is quite impossible , for such a thing to happen, because I the natives have no leaders and no

¡ firearms. What chiefs there are are . under the strictest supervision. They

cannot leave their own territories with-out the permission of the Goverr.or.! General% and wherever thuy may go j they are under the watchful eyes- of putch officials specially detailed for that service. Any serious rising un-der the conditions prevailing here is,

in my opinion, all moonshine." ,