News Summary June 15, 1895.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE JUNE 15, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 12.

South Australian Parliament opens.

Secret meeting of bankers in Sydney.

Gag applied in the N.S.W. parliament.

Harry Austin flogged in Pentridge gaol.

Coal discovered at Kopperamanna, S.A.

Alleged attempt at incendiarism at Bowen.

Anti-Chinese League formed in New Zealand.

Mrs. Swaddling burned to death at Lake's Creek.

Big gale at Sydney; many buildings unroofed.

South Australian Government floats a loan locally.

Sultan of Turkey dismisses his Prime Minister.

A tenant in Sydney attempts to shoot a landlord.

Valuable discovery of manganese ore near Warwick.

Report that Oscar Wilde has become insane in prison.

Dean poisoning case commission in Sydney still sitting.

Dead body of a picked up in the Brisbane River.

Brigands in European Turkey causing trouble to travellers.

Tender accepted for low-level bridge over the Mary River.

Aborigines at Maytown raid a Chinese mining camp.

Indian tribesmen defeat a small British military party.

An unknown man attempts suicide by shooting at Taroom.

Christian mission stations attacked and looted in China.

A clairvoyant gives evidence on the Dean case in Sydney.

Harden locomotive shed in N.S.W. totally destroyed by fire.

Booming of West Australia rocks still continues in London.

Proposed to establish a central sugar mill on the Russell River.

Government of Chili successfully floats a loan of £2,000,000.

Canadian House of Commons rejects a woman suffrage bill.

Turkish Government rejects the scheme of reforms for Armenia.

James Simpson fined £100 in Sydney for keeping an illicit still.

Odenburg, in Germany, submerged by floods and 50 persons drowned.

A German gunboat bombards and silences a Chinese fort at Formosa.

Thirty-six Chinaman, arrested in a gambling den in Sydney, fined £137.

Income Tax received by the Victorian Treasury to date £140,000.

A lad shoots a boy at Cobar, N.S.W., through a foolish challenge.

Two men at Berrigan, N.S.W., fight over a girl and one of them is killed.

Full Court decides against the appeal in the Parliamentary Suspension Case.

Disastrous floods in Northern Hungary. A large number of persons drowned.

Sir George Grey resigns his seat in the New Zealand House of Representatives.

The Germans have a little war with the natives on the west coast of Africa.

French soldiers advance on the capital of Madagascar meet with a slight check.

A woman burned to death at Tamagulla, Vic., through the upsetting of a lamp.

Directors of M.U. Oddfellows in England advise the formation of female lodges.

Mayor of Charters Towers institutes prosecutions against three sweep promoters.

Latest news states there is nothing to warrant a rush to the Leichhardt goldfield.

Reported that Canobie head station, near Hughenden, was burned to the ground.

Nelle prosequi entered in the case of W. Robertson, secretary Civil Services Board.

A Sydney man, jealous of his sweetheart, attempts to shoot her and commits suicide.

South Brisbane Municipal Council carries a resolution for the suppression of gambling.

A company about to be formed in Maryborough for the purpose of making brandy.

Policeman orders the Salvation Army in Brisbane to move on. Army did not budge.

Fourteen thousand cattle killed at the Ross River Meatworks during the past six months.

Sir Henry Parkes' son votes against his father in Parliament and then goes insolvent.

A teamster named Shaw and his team of bullocks drowned in Boghole Creek, N.S.W.

China proposes to float a loan of £16,000,000 in Paris, and Russia is willing to guarantee it.

Editor Victorian Express, Geraldton, W.A., gets fourteen days' gaol for contempt of court.

Schoolmaster at Curran's Creek, N.S.W., found guilty of criminally assaulting a girl pupil.

Ex-military officer takes an action against the N.S.W. Commandant. Damages claimed £5000.

Captain of the A.U.S.N. Waroonga fined £100 for conveying the codlin moth to Fremantle.

Membership of Friendly Societies in Australasia reported by the Victorian statist to be 252,000.

Vallely and Bowser lowest tenderers for the Childers-Cordalba railway. Tender, £16,305 18s. 11d.

A justice of the peace is fined at the Beenleigh Police Court for illegally employing kanakas.

Coroner's jury returns a verdict of wilful murder against a woman in New Zealand for baby-farming.

A town in Formosa burned down. During the fire a powder magazine explodes, killing ninety persons.

Disastrous waterspout at Wurtemburg in Germany. Fifty persons drowned and forty houses ruined.

Ex-railway Commissioner Eddy, of N.S.W., declines to submit a proposed increase of his salary to Parliament.

Great Britain deputed by other great powers to force Turkey to carry out reforms respecting the government of Armenia.

Government of South Australia notifies the Imperial authorities that the Governor's salary is going to be further reduced.

Residents of St. George furious at the conduct of the Minister for lands in withdrawing land and preventing settlement.

Six aboriginals poisoned at Fernmount, N.S.W., through a man giving them a bottle containing prussic acid to drink out of.

Maryborough school conference asks the Minister for Education to reduce the minimum age for admission of pupils to five years.

Alexander M'Millan, a miner, has a marvelous escape from death at Gulgong, and is hoisted up a shaft with his head hanging downwards.