General News June 1, 1895

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, JUNE 1, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING MAY 29.

Landslip at Broken Hill.

Victorian Parliament opened.

Heavy snow fall at Otago, N.Z.

Gold rush to the West Leichardt.

A Narrabri selector shoots himself.

Good prices offered at London wool sales.

Republic declared in the island of Formosa.

Premier of New Zealand refuses knighthood.

Secretary of State for the United States dies.

Australian tin quoted in London at £67 per ton.

Meat works at Mareeba in course of erection.

Reductions of rates on the Queensland railways.

No Birthday honours for the Queensland Fat Men.

A lunatic murders his wife in South Australia.

Successful agricultural show at Wellington Point.

Sydney milksellers fined for using too much water.

Reported rich discovery of gold at Montalbion.

Railway Hotel at Laidley burned to the ground.

Rumoured early dissolution of British Parliament.

Nugget weighing 196oz. Found at Marble Bar, W.A.

Oscar Wilde sentenced to two years' imprisonment.

Collision between a steamer and ketch at Sydney Heads.

Population of South Australia on March 1^st last was 347,065.

People of Toowoomba offer to pay Mrs. M'Naught's fine.

Italian general elections result in favour of the Government.

Drunken kanakas attack the white residents of Maryborough.

Discovery of alluvial wash near Jembaicumbene, N.S.W.

Victorian Government going to sell gunboats by public auction.

Michael Davitt lectures on the Labour question in Melbourne.

Two white men lynched in Illinois, U.S., for assault on a woman.

A silly parson in London advocates a holy war against the Turk.

English shipping companies raise the freight on cargo to Australia.

A little Gympie girl's clothes take fire and she dies from injuries.

Big fire near Woodstock impedes railway traffic for a short time.

Alfred Taylor, the associate of Oscar Wilde, sentenced to two years.

Emperor of China promises in future to pursue a policy of reform.

A Tasmanian mother drowns herself and seven month's old infant.

Cape Colony Government about to impose an import duty on frozen meat.

A miner named Manual King robbed of £321 in a Melbourne coffee palace.

Ex-secretary of the Queensland Club arrested on a charge of embezzlement.

Body of an unknown man found with his throat cut in West Australia.

One hundred and thirty men entombed in a West Virginia mine are rescued.

William Chisholm knocked down and killed by a railway train near Melbourne.

A coloured man savagely assaulted by Chinese in a Sydney gambling den.

Judge Molesworth sends a very warm letter to the Victorian Attorney-General.

Christchurch, N.Z., city rate collector gets two years in gaol for embezzlement.

Conflict between French troops and a number of people in French New Guinea.

Public meeting at Georgetown advocates the extension of a railway from Croydon.

Ex-clerk of the Calliope Divisional Board gets 17 months in gaol for embezzlement.

The Duke of Buckingham collides with another steamer in the English Channel.

Rockhampton again protests against the building of the Hughenden-Winton railway.

Owing to bad season in America prices in England for Australian wheat are on the rise.

French newspapers demanding that Great Britain evacuate the valley of the Upper Nile.

Florrie Morgan, aged 17, commits suicide at Windsor, N.S.W., by taking a dose of strychnine.

Early Closing Association hold a successful concert in the trades and Labour Hall, Brisbane.

English War office accept the tender of a Victorian firm for supply of Australian Brandy.

A town in Turkey destroyed by earthquake and a number of people killed and seriously injured.

A plague of mice doing much damage to the farmers in some parts of the Riverina, New South Wales.

Terrible boiler explosion on board a Danish torpedo boat; six men killed and a number of others injured.

Japanese of Thursday Island, headed by a brass band, pays their respect to the Government Residents.

A boy 14 years of age committed for trial at Dalby charged with putting an obstruction on the railway line.

Walter Besant (novelist), Henry Irving (actor), and W.H. Russell (war correspondent), created Knights.

A big N.S.W. canegrower says if the duties be abolished the sugar industry in that province will be extinct in 1899.

W. Robertson, B.A., secretary to the Queensland Civil Service Board, arrested on a charge of embezzlement.

John Stuart and Maurice Leahy arrested on a charge of stealing gold from the Queen Constance battery, Mareeba.

An Irish Justice of the peace, going to attend a court session in the County Cork, is fired upon by disguised men.

A lengthsman on a tricycle collides with another man on the Deep Creek railway bridge and both are seriously injured.

Bill introduced in English House of Commons providing for the appointment of Australian judges to the Privy Council.

The people of Formosa object to the cession of their island to Japan and have established a Republic. The Japanese fleet is now round the island.

New Zealand Government takes possession of the Midland railway on the ground of unreasonable delay on the part of the company constructing the line.

Secretary to the Colonial Office stated in the House of Commons that the question of the separation of Queensland had not reached the stage for action to be taken by the Imperial Government.