News Summary June 8, 1895

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, JUNE 8, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 5.

West Australian Parliament opens.

Severe snowstorms in New Zealand.

Gold rush to Mullingnara near Albury.

Australian honey exported to England.

Japanese troops evacuating Chinese territory.

Flour mill at Temora, N.S.W., destroyed by fire.

Spanish gunboat wrecked near San Sebastian.

Violet Varley, operatic star, dies in Melbourne.

Patrick Donovan killed at Dalby by the fall of a tree.

Homebush sugar mill at Mackay commences crushing.

Unemployed meetings at the Queen's Statue in Sydney.

Secret society of incendiaries discovered at New York.

Michael Tobin found drowned in a waterhole near Dalby.

New Zealand calls tenders for a cable-repairing steamer.

New Zealand Government finds work for the unemployed.

Payable petroleum well discovered at New Plymouth, N.Z.

Government disqualifies Georgetown juries for twelve months.

Engine at the Queensland mine, Etheridge, maliciously damaged.

A French steamer founders off the coast of Spain; 103 lives lost.

Mikado of Japan makes a triumphant march through his dominion.

Government of Cape Colony going to spend £1,000,000 on railways.

The Japanese warships bombard the principal seaport in Formosa.

A N.S.W. mail contractor exchanges shots with ambushed assailants.

A Hamburg petroleum store struck by lightning and destroyed by fire.

John Simpson fined £100 at Caboolture for breach of the Customs Act.

The leader of the British House of Commons declares against bimetallism.

A wife in N.S.W. Obtains a divorce from her husband who is a clergyman.

Licensed victuallers wait on Tozer and ask for a reduction of license fees.

Mayor of Charters Towers lays an information against sweep promoters.

British squadron ordered to Beyrout in consequence of Armenian troubles.

Dead body of an unknown man found with stabs in his throat, near Mackay.

French passenger steamer's boilers explode off Vigo and 80 persons drowned.

Three British warships ordered to Jeddah in consequence of outrage on Consuls.

Jean Luie, associated with the notorious Tichbourne claimant, exposes him.

Arthur Buck sentenced to death at Melbourne for the murder of a woman.

Two thousand six hundred travelling sheep eat blue bush at Wilcannia and die.

A Japanese pearl-shell diver on the West Australian coast is eaten by sharks.

Fair draught horses sold at Hamly Bridge, South Australia, for 1s. 3d. per head.

Thomas Goldsmith, compositor, killed by a railway train at Petersham, N.S.W.

Ah Sue found dead with his throat cut on the Gowie Road near Germantown.

Number of N.S.W. Bank boodlers released from prison before expiry of sentence.

Bedouine at Jeddah attack and wound the English, French, and Russian Consuls.

Mr. Erythropel, a German citizen, wrongfully arrested by the police in Brisbane.

An explosion takes place on board a gunboat at Guayaquil and 15 men are killed.

Active agitation in Rockhampton against the proposed Hughenden-Winton railway.

A maniac sets fire to the Wesleyan Church at Cudgena (Vic.) and then cuts his throat.

An American steamer is wrecked on the coast of Mexico, and 170 persons are drowned.

N.S.W. Sugar-growers deputationise the Labour Party re sugar duties in that province.

English Secretary of state for the Colonies snubs the N.S.W. re-appointment of Governor.

N.S.W. Royal Commission still sitting in Sydney inquiring into the Dean poisoning case.

James Fawcett gets six months at Townsville for stealing books from the local School of Arts.

Governor of the Bank of England praises the financial ability of the New Zealand Treasurer.

M. Pasteur, great French scientist, declines to accept the German Emperor's order of merit.

Bullock teams successfully competing against Railway Commissioners between Ipswich and Dalby.

Central Council of the Worker's Political Organisation interview Tozer re disfranchising voters.

W. Roberton, ex-secretary Civil Service Board, is committed for trial on a charge of larceny.

A railway porter is caught between the buffers of a train at Toowoomba and seriously injured.

Sultan of Turkey apologies to the European Powers for the attacks made on their consuls at Jeddah.

Timber raft swept over the Ottawa River Falls, in Canada, and thirty-three persons drowned.

The great American humourist, Mark Twain, engaged to visit Australia on a lecturing tour.

Disgraceful corruption discovered amongst the directors of the privately-owned French railways.

James Dinan fined £1 at Parkes, N.S.W., for stealing sacramental wine from Church of England.

Big petition against the disestablishment of the Welsh Church presented in the British Commons.

Reported in Townsville that large American firms are about to open meat works in North Queensland.

Reported that a German warship is about to enforce a claim of £2000 against the Tongaur Government.

Members of the Brisbane Boot Trade Union on strike march in procession through the streets of Brisbane.

Thomas Daldry gets seventeen months in gaol at Rockhampton for stealing gold from Mount Usher mine.

Manager of the Q.N. Bank resigns as head of the “milingtary,” and Colonel Gunter is appointed in his place.

Great Powers demand an apology from Turkey for insults offered to their representatives inquiring into the Armenian atrocities.

Jos. Symes, Freethought lecturer at Melbourne, defends himself in the Supreme Court against a charge of defamatory libel and is acquitted.