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-... - . -November 7,
' The Law Courts and several private establish, ments were closed this afternoon, out of respect to-the memory" of the late Hon. George Allen M.L.C., whose funeral took place to-day.
Mr. Fletcher, superintendent of Terrible Vale station, New England district, sued Mr. Marsh a neighboring squatter, for maliciously prose« cuting him on the charge of stealing four bales of wool. That case broke down, hence tho pre- sent action, and a verdict has been returned in favor of the plaintiff for £250 damages.
A company with a capital of £50,000 has been floated by 14S shareholders to purchase the Annandale estate, in tho suburbs, comprising 300 acres, suitable for building purposes.
The Premier contradicts the statement respect- ing his acceptance of a seat in the Upper House or permanently filling the office of Minister for LandB.' Ho will probably sit tor the Bogan if elected for that constituency next Monday, and for which Sir Henry Parkes ia also nominated.
Reliable reports state that the^Hon, J. White owner of Chester, won £10,000 in a single bet made at tho 'Hawkesbury meeting on the double event of the Melbourne Derby and Cup.
The City Coroner holds an enquiry to-mor-
row, touching the origin of the fire aboard ti«*. Ly-ee-Moon, steamer.
The Cuzco, s., arrived at^ Adelaide, from Ply. mouth, this morning. , -j.
The Paru Exhibition Commission has boen ap. pointed, of which the Chief Justice is President. The colony will be represented at Paris by eleven gentlemen, headed by the Agent-General.
Complete returns show that Mr. M'Elhone has
been elected for the Upper Hunter, Mr. Dillon / for Tenterfield; Sir John Robertson, byamajority of 157 votes, for Mudgee ; Mr. Barbour for the Murray, Mr. Hoskins for Tumut, and Mr. Smith for the Hastings.
The Hattie N. Bangs, barque, from New York with kerosine, resumed her passage to Japan to- day.
At a meeting of the council of the Agricul- tural Society held to-day, all present concurred with the Chief-Inspector of Stock that stock could now be safely imported, and that a month's quarantine after lauding was a sufficient protection against the introduction of disease.
Veiy full entrances have been received for the different events at the Balmain Regatta, on the Prince of Wales Biithdny.
The yacht races will be especially interesting, in consequence of the recent arrival fiom New
Zealand.
The locomotives imported from America havo been tried and found satisfactory.
Arrived : R.M.S. Brisbane, from Brisbane.
Melbourne.
LnEUTElt'S TEUGllVMS.]
November 7.
Mr. Gillies was swoi ninas member for Rodney to-day, and took his seat on the front benches of the Opposition amid cheoi s from that party.
The dobate on the privileges question in the Assembly will probably bo finished to-night. Tho repoit of the committee, denying tho right of the Legislative Council to alter the Railway Con- struction Bill, will bo carried.
A scheme pf the Commissioner of Hallways for river and dock improvements, supplies a dock at the Spencer-street Btation 00 chains long and 000 feet wide, and also widens the Yarra, The cost would be quito one million.
The weather is fine,
Messrs. R. Goldsbrough and Co. íeport that they offered to-day 3000 bales of wool, of which thoy sold 2G00 at fully last week's prices ; greasy realised 8d. to 14d., tho latter prica being for 62 bales of Ramsay's, inferior to good averago fleece, 15d. to 22d. per lb. The market is very
firm.
Messis. King and Cunningham report that for cnttle the demand waa slack, best beasts Belling up to £14. They sold 190 from Ardoch, Bulloo, and 00 Victorian stores, 17,000 sheep penned ; prices furner. They sold 3000 wethers from Till Till, Balranald, aud 300 Victorian.
Messrs. Powers, Rutherford, and Co. report that 1100 head of cattle were yarded to-day, which sold at an advance of 10s. on last week's rates. 19,000 sheop and lambs penned, prices slightly improved.
' New Zealand.
[itEUTEIl'S TELEGRAMS.]
Wellington, November 7.
After debate, the Speaker ruled that Major Atkinson's motion, to the effect that the Govern- ment, not having a 'majority, should at once resign, was out of order, and the Houso then pro- ceeded with the oidmnry business.
The Opposition have a majority, but were taken unawares by the division yesterday, and three of their party were locked out.
Tho British Consul at Samoa levies the fol- lowing fines on the Native Government : 10,000 dollars for collision with the crew of H.M.S. Barracouta ; 10,000 dollars for the in suit offered to Commodore Hoskins; 10,000 dollars for using threatening language to the British Consul, and pending the decision of the Imperial authorities the islands to be held as
security.
Christchurch Cup : Ariel 1, Trump Card 2,
Mata 3. Time : 3 ruins. 11 sees.
Later.
Another motion of want of confidence in the Government has beeu tabled.
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November 7. Reaping has commenced.
Tho Cuzco, s., has made the passage in 40 dava from Plymouth to Glenelg. Rev. 0. Chapman, minister o£ the Collins-street Baptist Church,
Melbourne, is a passenger.
Justice must have been very blind indeed (says "Mneuion," in the Sydney Mail) when she put the Postmaster-General into one scale and a pair of trousers, a coat, and an umbrella into the other, and then found him wanting to the extent of 3 to 2 ; or ehe the electors of East Sydney have been very blind in regard to the hon. gentleman's worth to the State. To be less enigmatical : one evening last week Mr. Davies was shepherding an unprotected female, when one of her would-be assailants turned upon bim and knocked him into the gutter-cutting his left knee and bruising his shoulder ; whilst tue umbrella with which the Postmaster-General baa Bhielded bis auçust personage was broken, ana his trousers and coat were treated quite as un- ceremoniously. Upon the hon. gentleman re- gaining hi» feet his antagonist 0Npre3sed contn tion by paving he regretted that he had not brokeu Mr." Davis' \\dm instead of his umbrella^ The niagi-trate before whom the assailant wa next morning brought was evidently of the same opinion regarding the comparative worth of air. Davies' nasal organ and the umbrella, for whim he assessed the damage to Mr. Danes person at 40s., the damage to the umbrella and unmen- tionables was assessed atCOs. ; and this has been described as a " smart " decision.
TilEBK exista no written work on newspaper Í etiquette ; probably because journalists we 'supposed to be Rentlemen, and therefore to
fcnow iustinctively what is becoming. It is perfectly just and proper that one ttfcWBpaper should freely criticise the political opinions of another. We may even go so far as to say that .this enlarges the philanthropic scope of an influential journaî, by supplying its youngor brethren with material for letter-press when they happen to be hard lira for original stock. The Courier, ,for iustauco, (with iuvoluutary benevolence) helps largely to run its evening .contemporary, by affording it leading matter
for contradiction. But there is a, department with which the stranger has no business to intermcdSlo ; a private allotment on which no outsider has auy right to come and " pitch his offal." "(Shaksneare, Sir ; and therefore unim- peachable). No newspaper has a right to inter fere'With another newspaper's big gooseberries, orentkes, or two-headed calves. And further, newspapers have no right to interfere with one another's eggs. We are egged on to make these reuaiks by the exceedingly-(no ; noi eggs ' '-ceedingly ; we abhor puns)-by tho exceedingly
bumptious manner in which the IpswicJi Observer has fallen fowl of the B. B. Gazette on the subject of au egg. We are not going to enter linto the merits of the question as to whether the Toowoomba egg was worth a paragraph ; or as to whether Beveu-iuch shells are really discharged "by the dozen" in Ipswich ; although we are well aware that under its present management the 1>. B. Gazette is not the sort of, journal to proceed on the omiifi eggnotum pro magnífico principie ; and although, furthei, wo leserve to ourselves the right of regarding 'the statements of the /. O. as eggregious ex- aggeration«, savourmg strongly of Ipswich eggotlsm. We are not going to say that the lays of that Modern Athens may not be as famous aud as long-as those of Ancient Pome. We are not going to say that wo don't know at least one representative Ipswich chicken who certainly grew from' no petty origin, and who might well have been hutched as yolk fellow to a goose, or even a bubbly-jock. We merely wish to point out that the Editor of the /. 0. has gone on a wrong lay. He should have brooded over his own local "dozen" till both
they and be wore addled, rather'tlian interfere with the private monstrosity of another "journal. The D. I>. Gazette may have erred slightly in airing its egg during the parliamentary session, instead of waiting for the recess, when monsterB are properly in season ; but it must be owned that this was partly the fault of the hen. But for the aggressive disparager, even if he could show eggs ten times the size, there is uo such e\tenuation, as prodigies seem to be perennial
m ¡til him. Let him i evise his etiquette 06 ovo.- ' "Specialities," in the Queenslander.
A comiEsrONDhNT of the South Australian Jlcnister, writing from Maitland under date October 10, sajs :-"The Church of England Bishop of the above diocese has just completed arrangemeuts'by which he endows the diocese by the laige gift of £120,000. The iuterest of this sum is to be mainly expended iu the prepaia tion of young men for the ministry, and the supplementing of the salaries of all the clergy in charge of churches. It is proposed at pre- sent to give to each clergyman so situated £100 per annum, he to make as much nioie out of his church as he can. Bishop Tyrrell is a bachelor, and by this princely giffcshows his devotion to the Church of which he has .for so many yean been au active agent."
It is a frequent topic of discussion (says tho S. AT. Herald) as to the probable future of the trade between Australia and China, and there aro not a few persons who aro sanguine that our commercial relations with that groat country will increase vory rapidly within the next few years. Amongst the artioles which it is thought might with some prospeet of succcbs be expoi ted to China is wool, for which there can be no question that place will afford a large market. Somo time ago a quantity of our wool was for wauled to China, where it has been manufac- tured into cloth, a specimen of which Messis. Allan and Co., of Maoquarie-place, have sent to this office. The cloth, which has the appearance of boiug of good quality, is evenly woven, and is of a grayish color. If the Chluoso are to add the industry of cloth-making to tholr already great variety of accomplishments, they stand a chanco
of distinguishing themselves in a line of ti ade', for which they possess special advantages in their aocess to oheap labor, and it is well known that they are aB a iule espeits in the production of artioles wheie much manipulation is lequlred. It will be for the benefit of these colonies that no impediment should be thrown in the way of allowing the freest possible intercourse between Australia ,iud the outside woiltl, and thu enter- prise which is being started uf supplying China ?with ovrr fleeces is one deseivlng support, and which merits success, lit ilias been proposed to place a spesiinen of the Chinese cloth in one or otherof our public institutions where it wi'l bo comeuiontly seetuby visitors.
Tun w<ciy strong desire. which* some pareulc ¡have to got their young hopefuls into banks hat always bet-n somewhat of a rmrvel. But an in- cident which wa3 recently brought .under the, notice of " Mnemon," the wirltei of " Notes and! Comments'" in the Sydney iSfail, explains a gi eat deal. A »certain piterfamilias had long boen anxious to-senure occupation for his san in one of the city'banking establishments. Me at last 8ucceeded,.&ad hlsjjqy was mtnifested iu such a demonstrative manner that a friend wes led to cngiiire the reason of his preference for bank employment. " Welldon see," said the aid mau, " I am pretty well done up--that is, my pecu- niary affaira oro atajpretty low ebb. J«bn has always been c nice boy, but, I am afraût it will not ibe worth his While waiting for my »hoes, Now, after he'kas ibeen in tho bank a bit, ke will soon ,get acquainted vwith the expectations of some ef the maiden or $?oung <widow depositors or shaseholders, and who knows, -ah, what might happen'" "Mnemon" can't say what might happon, but raoommends all his young faiaalo friends who have deposite in the bank, or ¿¡old bwk shares, or erpoct.to ¿ave any or hold any,
to give ¡îobn a wide berth.
ConcBHNiNo the-extraordinary.iflight of dragon flies mentioned a few days ago in our Sydney telegram, Mr. F. ti. Tracton writes to oho Herald :-.." While in my garden (Balmain) this evening, at 6 o'clock, my attention wes attracted hy a flight of dragon eSiea pasiiugi frota south to north. I vras amazed at the rapidity and con- stancy of .iliis flight »ad the aumber.of insecte engaged in it, Hunâceds were continually in sight, few deviated ftccrt a direct course, and those that Al, as far ec my observation went, I
immediateay resumed it. I only saw one insect ! alight ; it woo only monaaDtary, for it soon con- tinued the route north. This migration, with- out any diminution in tMonbera, continued in- cessantly till dark, and, focall I koow, long after it I ara encojraged to tèânk the latter, es one of the insecte visited my t»om after 9 o'clock. >i\iththe object of ascertaining the breadth, of the tn«ect army I obtained a goa spyglass, and as fer (certainly 2Û0 yards) at I could see, there KM no diminution in them ; I could plainly see them pass «till north on the far side °t a neighbor's chimney the above dis- tance _ away. The distance off in -the oppo site dil ection I could not calculate, diaving the fea,j;ky, nnd distant ¿and only in that quarter.'" Another correspondent says :-"The question having been asked, ' iVhere do the dragon flies
come -from in such fonce ?' I think I can throw some 3¿£ht upon the matter. A few days ago I took a trip overland, to the Illawarra district, and on the elevated swampy country between Appin aqd Bulli Pass my Attention was specially arrested br the multitude of dragon flies darting
.lt" .ao°- ¿h'ther along the line of road, etpe cially in <£je vicinity of the rusby swamps. I »ade sevecül extensive detours in search of |Mne, and wfether among the timber or around the swamps ¡ud eedges, there was still the same Mentifulness .et these insecte. The dragon-fly PWses the larva! period of its' existence in just fuch places as the Loddon swamps, and it is pro table that the insects I saw disporting them n Ü1? fthout their breeding places have fled northK^d in alarm at the prospect of bad weathet approaching from the south. It is a P'ty tv/- could not na.re fnduced them to take up 6uhPe^Catient reeidenoe « Sydney and the JT' as they are very voracious creatures, na would have performed good service in dear ~¡° on our plagues of flies and mosquitoes. I l'lo"wfl'e"00eIarßo íeUow reßali»S himself on a