News Summary June 22, 1895.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, JUNE 22, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 19.

Frost at Stanthorpe and other places.

A suicide club discovered at New York.

Export of new season's sugar commences.

Barcaldine boiling down works very busy.

Good prices for Queensland beef in London.

Mrs. M'Naught released from Toowoomba gaol.

Gladstone receives a great ovation at Hamburg.

Parliamentary buildings, Portugal, burned down.

Two traders massacred at the Solomon Islands.

Dr. Dobbin commits suicide at Narranders, N.S.W.

Solomon Islanders reported busy at head hunting.

Tasmanian Customs seize £500 of smuggled jewellery.

Commercial treaty signed between Russia and Japan.

Terrible outrage by Turkish police in Macedonia.

Grimes, M.L.A., publicly sings a comic song at Lowood.

A.J.S. Bank clerk gets five years at Sydney for forgery.

Help the Children's Hospital during self denial week.

Big petition for Enoggera railway in course of signature.

Successful shipments of Australian chilled beef in London.

An aboriginal leper on Fraser Island dies from exhaustion.

Great Britain going to build a railway in Uganda, Africa.

Viscount Hampden appointed Governor of New South Wales.

Jacob's Theatre in New York burned down. Damages £50,000.

Wool scouring works at Liverpool, N.S.W., destroyed by fire.

Colonel Bell, U.S. Consul, visits the Queensland sugar districts.

Home Ruler William O'Brien, M.P. For Cork, goes bankrupt.

Turkish soldiers enter Bulgaria and seize the road to Phillipopolis.

Government propose prospecting for coal on Central railway lines.

Japanese Government firmly established in the island of Formosa.

Ferryboat sunk in Sydney Harbour through collision. No lives lost.

Proposal to form an electric lighting company in Charters Towers.

Kate Herbert fined £5 at Bundaberg for supplying grog to kanakas.

The Czar decorates the French President with the order of St. Andrew.

George Boyce caught in the machinery of a flour mill in Sydney and killed.

A squatter's son, named Pile, killed at Adelaide whilst riding after hounds.

A clever young wood carver and native of Brisbane, G. A. Ockleford, dies.

Gladstone denounces the insane strain put on the people by modern armaments.

Suspected incendiarism at Warrnambool, Vic. Government offers a reward.

Dr. Campbell, of Yass, 80 years of age, thrown out of his buggy and killed.

Patrick St. Lawrence sentenced to ten years at Sydney for robbery with violence.

Spanish Government sending 35,000 soldiers to Cuba to suppress revolution there.

Threatened disbanding of the Toowoomba Fire Brigade owing to want of funds.

New Zealand Premier and Governor fall out over Legislative Council appointments.

Terrible boiler explosion at Yorkshire, Eng.; nine persons killed and twenty injured.

Public debate at Harrisville between Labour member Wilkinson and another person.

Manager of bus company robbed of £202 in Bridge-street, Sydney, in broad daylight.

Tender of Vallely and Bowser accepted for the construction of the Cordalba railway.

Ex-manager of the Union Bank, Gympie, convicted of forging and uttering a cheque.

A miner's body, horribly mutilated, is found in a railway tunnel near Helensburg, N.S.W.

Michael Glesson, a shearer, dies in a Sydney hospital from revolver wounds self-inflicted.

Charles Gibson attempts to cut his wife's and his own throat at Kangaroo Point, Brisbane.

Tenders to be called by Government for a refrigerating store at Roma-street, Brisbane.

Charles Seymour-Allan obtains a verdict of £1000 damages for libel against Sydney Truth.

R. Barr Smith presents the South Australian Government with a steam lifeboat value £8500.

Mayor of Brisbane withdraws permission for Salvation Army street-preaching and procession.

A sailor falls from aloft on the notorious ship Drumpark on a voyage from Brisbane to Newcastle.

Two sweep promoters committed for trial at Charters Towers on a charge of keeping a lottery.

M'Ilwraith, M'Eachern, and Co., shipowners, fined £1387 for defrauding Victorian Customs.

Sentence of death confirmed against Arthur Buck by Executive at Melbourne for murder of a woman.

Warrant issued against a man named Jordan on a charge of firing two shots at Dan Harris, Normanby.

Serious subsidence of the ground on which Melbourne City Markets are built; building endangered.

French steamer arrives at Cooktown with a cargo of cheap labour from Tonquin, en route for Noumea.

Mar Lodge, in Scotland, the mansion of the Duke of Fife, burned to the ground in presence of the Queen.

Buskley, witness in a Townsville divorce case, arrested, by order of the judge, on a charge of perjury.    

New Zealand Minister for Labour promises to bring in a Fair Wages Bill during next session of Parliament.

A woman at Thursday Island committed for trial on a charge of sending naughty letters to residents of the island.

Japanese Government inviting tenders in England and America for the construction of £3,000,000 worth of warships.

A Chinese gambling den in Melbourne raided by the police. Five Chinamen and twenty-eight Europeans arrested.

England, France, and Germany demands from Turkey an indemnity for outrage committed on their Consuls at Jeddah.

Plans of a bridge between New York and Jersey City, over the Hudson River, approved of by the U.S. Government ; estimated cost £4,500,000.

Monster petition, containing the signatures of 2,000,000 women to be presented to the various governments for the suppression of the liquor traffic.