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QUEENSLAND.
(By Telegraph from Our Correspondents.)
ROMA, October 4.
A supply of water was struck in tne
artesian boro this morning, estimated at 100,000 gallons per day. The bore is down about 1000ft., and is in sandstone rock. The water is clear, and Is pronounced good. Many people visited the bore this forenoon.
MARYBOROUGH, October 4.
Tho sittings of the Circuit Court were opened to-day before Mr. Justice Real. Wlllinm Patterson, charged with attempting to commit a capital offence, and also with attempted indecent assault, was found guilty on the latter count. Thomas Cook, charged with the larceny of a quantity of lager beer, was found guilty. The sen- tences in each case were deferred. The *lvil case, Joannsen v. Kinne, will be heard
to-morrow,
ROCKHAMPTON, October 4.
The steamer Taldora went aground on the beach at Sea Hill last night. It is ex- pected that she will be floated off on this morning's tide.
The weather yesterday was very hot, registering nearly 102deg. in the shade. A hot wind blow all day.
Mr. Haylock has returned from Capella. He made a careful examination of 150 cattle of a mob of 1000 from Bulliwallah station, and, finding them clean, allowed the mob to proceed. Another Inspection will be made at Oakey Creek, which probably will be reached to-night.
Lord Brassey returned from Mount Mor- gan on Saturday evening. He was presented with an address by the local authorities In the School of Arts, In the presence of a large gathering. He spoke at length on Imperial unity and federation. The party left shortly after 6 o'clock the same evening
for the South.
The weather is again hot.
BARCALDINE, October 4.
Munro appeared on remand thi3 morning, charged with aison, and waa again re- manded owing to the illness of Constable Holland, who made the arrest. Ball wa3 granted as before, the accused in £40 and two sureties of £20 each.
The weather is fearfully hot, the ther- mometer going into the century. All the young grabs is being dried out of the ground, and very bad reports have been received regarding the travelling stock routes.
Eight hundred travelling sheep were poisoned near the Alice through eating
poison bush.
During tho past week 494 bales of dumped wool havo been despatched, 249 being from Avington, 15 from Aramac, 102 from Bowen Downs, C3 from Leichhardt, and 63 from
Elderslie.
Two lots each of 491 rams have boen de- spatched'to Riley Bros., Longreach, on ac-
count of Saltern Creek.
TOWNSVILLE, October 4.
A lumper named John Kerwick took ill on the steamer Warrego on Saturday morn- ing, and died an hour afterwards. He waa 35 years of age, and leaves a widow and
four children.
Mr. Gray, Commissioner for Railways, arrived from Charters Towers last night, and leaves for the South by the Aramac
to-morrow.
INGHAM, October 3.
A large meeting held on Saturday night unanimously decided to urge the Government to grant a loan for the Stone River tram- line without delay, otherwise the farmers now planting cane will miss the 1899 season and be ruined. The feeling here Is that the Government are going back on the
pledges made.
CAIRNS, October 4.
On,Saturday last 17 acres of "matured cane, belonging to Adam M'Nab, a farmer at the Mulgrave central mill, was burnt. The cane was promptly cut and crushed, and the loss will consequently not bo very heavy. On the following day 25 acres of cane be- longing to Thomas Bowen, a farmer on the south-west side of the Mulgrave River, were totally destroyed, and the mill will not
bo able to crush this.
Colonel Gunter and Major Byron have be- tween them taken up 500 acres of land at Kuranda, in the neighbourhood of the Barron Falls, for the purpose of establish- ing coffee plantations.
A united effort is to be made by all the district hospitals to influence the Govern- ment to oxtend the date when the subsidy on the proceeds of entertainments and other specified subscriptions shall case. It is felt hero that this extension is justifiable on account of large contracts having boen entered upon on the old basis of subscrip- tion. If the request is refused the Cairns committee intend to ask the Government to pay the cost of painting the hospital, which work Is now proceeding. The esti- mated loss to the Cairns Hospital through the proposed new regulations Is £300 a year.
Hambledon plantation ia only crushing with one shift, owing to the want of a suffi- cient supply of water.
> Negotiations for the crushing qlf the 'Aloomba proposed central mill cane at Hambledon will be discussed, and prob- ably agreed to at a meeting of Aloomba farmers to be held noxt Friday. The price offered by the Colonial Sugar Company Is 10s. Od. per ton for cane delivered on the trucks, or equal to 7s. 6d. for standing
cane. <
The largest shipment of bananas ever sent from Cairns was loaded on the Aramac on Saturday, consisting of 16,217 bunches.
The weather Is uno, and rain Is badly
wanted.
PORT DOUGLAS, October 4.
One hundred and twenty tons of sugar were shipped South on Saturday.
The Amateur Dramatic Club gave an en- tertainment in the Masonic Hall on Friday evening in aid of the State school funds, and the affair was a great success.
HUGHENDEN, October 4.
Tlie weather is very hot, the thermometer registering 102de£. In the Bhade yesterday and 103deg. to-day.
CROYDON, October 4.
Brennan and Fox's allotments, in the heart of the town, the buildings on which were recently destroyed by fire, havo been applied for aa a claim. It Is stated thai soma very good quartz was found there
some years ago.
The weather Is extremely hot, the ther- mometer registering as high as 108deg. in
the shade.
THURSDAY ISLAND, October 4.
The R.M.S. Duke of Argyll left on Satur- day evening for London.
Tho steamer Tsinan sailed South on Satur- day, and the Taiyuan yesterday. The Chlngtu left for Hongkong on Friday even- ing. The Omi Maru left for Hongkong
to-day.
The house of Captain Nicholas was en- tered to-day, and a sum of money taken, while Mrs. Nicholas was engaged In house. bold dutlee in the kitchen at the rear.