General Intelligence.

Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 86, 2 March 1876, Page 6

General Intelligence.

An InqomerrTax; Bill has passe^ .the Victorian rAsseh.biy.i- /. '/,! .-' ! ■ ! -"•.-*"-■ !-'•. ' " Sir Julius Yogel wiil visit Wanganui ; about ,the..6th. inst. <•■:'- -\ h! : .• - ;

'.: It is understood ;that ; street tramways will shortly be constructed iii^^^ Wellington. . '•- •'- : f."."- -:"-" r .:.' .' -

Mr Stephen, formerly: chief clerk of : the Supreme Court, Sydney,' /shot him-.! self on Friday last . at. the ..Maitland : RifleßUttS.' / :!',:.:: ! Marion Iting, a young married, wo-., man ; was • sentenced at Brisbane last wefek, to three months'- imprisonment for* ill-treating her step-child, '" "" The General Government has agreed/ ,to advance, to. the- Prbyincial Gbverii- . ment of Wellington: £30^000,. required: fori the* execution of certain .urgent public works., '-.. ,/' ' . : AFidelity Guarantee $qciety|is being floated in, ■, Wellington,^ .Subspriptjbhs", to the amount of^ £45,O0OTh^e.'air_ady : been secured in Wellington) •jCanterbury, and- Otago/ A proportion, of the capital has been preserved for Auckland/ Scarlet fever, is /dying out/ in Mel* bourne, the deaths - ;beihg very .greatly ; dirninislied/ '*■„.'

; : The Victorian, -Agricultural College is to be endowed by the ' Government with a grant. of land and money

A goods train on the Victorian. NorthEastern Railway caught fire the other day; ! One truck was-completely gutted, . and the others; slightly damaged. i '■'. Twenty-four horses have! accepted for v the. Australian Cup;, and twenty-nine for the.^Newmarket Handicap^ ;to be 1 run for early next month atFlemington -, ; Mr Thomas Mort; of Sydney," the pa- ■ tentee of' the. new process pffreezing meat, is anxious to send, a .trial ship* ment to Fnglarid. He has spent no : less a sum than .£IOO,OOO of his ; ow!n money. in .experimentalism, and. now £25,000 is required for the purpose .of. making the trial. .2 17, 500 has already been collected, and tlie . remainder will shortly be subscribed by . the. , stock-! owners in this Colony. :: ■ A /telegram from. Timaru dated; Thursday; last,, says :^-r A . tremendous rainstorm began at, about I.o last night,: and;continued till this morning. It, is said to be the heaviest rain ever known, here. Much damage has' been done to the : crops in. the.!. fields and stacks.'.". Several parts of the town were flooded, with, storm- water, but no, harm was done. The. weather is fine .how. /"''Dr.', Cole measured, the. rainfal last' night,, and it reached .the. enprmous amount of, 3-25 in. in 12 hours.

Since the passing of the iron-hand resolution in the Victorian Assembly,the debates haye : been conducted rather, more decorously,, and how/ tliat the ! House is on the budget proposals, there is some prospect of busine_^'foeing. proV ceeded with. Two of the items—the. land; tax and. the. house tax — : have been agreed to in Committee, but they, are: to.be recommitted. The income :tax is under, discussion, and likely to caused some opposition, as it . is, not popular/ although the minimum isfixed aV£SOO, a-year for incomes., A-rhotion has been, made in the Assembly to. place a sum on the estimates for a portrait of Wilson Gray.

informations were laid last week? against gixi. out of forty : persons suspected of double voting atthe Orakura Road Board ' elections, . Hokitika. •Mr Fitzgerald, .R.M., dismissed three; and the; others are , abandoned. \ The ' cases, show serious -.elects in the! regulations, of the election Act,. by -not ; making the Officer record the evidence, and the Deputy (Jas.. Frances __yrne), recollected nothing. The .Crown Prosecutor said that he, must abanddh the! cases in consequence of the impenetrable stolidity :of . Byrne and of martiii, a scrutineer for Micfcuiel. Hbulahan/buf th!ere was not the slightest doubt double ;voting had taken , place extensively in! th ! e: district. ••- .. , .. .

A telegram from Timaru says :-^-A boat accident occurred in t^e, roadstead ;on Saturday; morning, by . which i two men lost' their lives: A cargo boat ber longing-' to the ' Ge.rgershWt'Sexvice, 5 started for the ketch Sarah' and Mary, with half a'lbad of timber, the boatmen; on bpard! being; David; Anderson; and James Bain. ! Everything . wentr riglit •un til' ; reaching the inner buoy, which; : was^ a^°V.f 80, yards from shore, wh'en; .'several large seas , broke/over •« the; ooat^r filling her completely.a&d causing ! h br ' to sink.; Th^rft.werkseye_ar peopre!"6a" shor_i and a whale -boat wa3 imme-' diately put off.; One. of the boatmerr-' supposed to be Anderson, !s truck; piit^fory the shore, and • immediately A afterwards""' the! other man caugiit holdjof ?hini, end; both began tostruggle- ' Tliey appeared' to hold fast; to 'each other until /.the .whale boat, got 'with|4a length ; of theih/ when the men went down and were; 'seen no more./ There'wais a .very rough sea ion^at. the : tima.! > "This, is V the; "first" time for twelve years thatr a cargo boat accident/ attended ,with;,lb_s ; of link Has' occurred ■ here. ! The" men /.werei both'single,.'-;"'' ■■■■■■•■-• -!,. : ;;'-f.-ier/^!;

. The Bi ? hop of Sydney! is/, db^£" s ;opl hisr clergy, fbrs preachin'g:iu dissenting!; -PMptf*-? on c of the dffenders-takes'hl' 1 stand;, on -the/ legal', o^nion /recently given in; England that^thbUgh/thisisi illegal :m ;thg ; ; njdthe. ;coun try'itf _s%t • so in ;the .colonies/and ftelnold_^_iie_e-r fore/that -a, colonial^ clergy man4s^^free* *? proper,rbutTwhat^n.th.contrary.^ pendency .^display ;Cbrist^h..unMn.^h^ « takefthe^clergyman's part/ ! n /,/,;,./ ;v I

i"; There Aaye^beenf _u3asy_vrains:in^M_l*^ : .bourne. : - - ; y ■>■? yi'iyyy^ -. '*'"' The Victorian Assembly, is discussing the income-tax. • _?here ] is* considerable^ .bpposision to the proposal. .-iyU: -,>, : v.>- ,-. jA man named Stevens has been committed for trial for. beating* his wife to., death-at Ararat, - ~ _.

There -w^s ajgreafcltornado at BoweW in jQueensland on Monday week. Houses were blown down, and a number of persons were seriously injured. : A shocking accideht has occurred aft/ Bajthurst j through the. explosion, of- a kei-osene lamp. A family was seated round the table when it burst, setting, fire to Mrs Nbglej Mrs Reardon, and Thomas Nagle, the latter a child five years did::: The first two. are-shockinglyi/ injured, and it' is feared they will not recover*

/The New South Wales Government is considering the. advisability of dividing the banking account. The question '' of |the reorganisation of the Volunteer force' will prdbably be' postponed 1 till neit session. * The' barque Theseus,* which: arrived on Wednesday at Port Chalmers, brings two magnificent shorthorn bulls. from London, consigned to Messrs. Maclean ;Brothers^efr .Dunedin., The,^ arrivals-. ar4 in first rate condition/and reflect/no little credf|;on^:e^ptain; M^thte^ under ' whose Oare they have reached our shores. . Six.small houses in Eerl-street, Carl- •' ton, Victoria' have : been * de^.oye'd by .firj_. < ;;, Two lothera'we^ ;'dam;a&ed. V Ihtelli^eticbrhas 'been' 1 received at ;Rockhampton;thAt; the schfobnef Jessie Kelly; from The Islands, was d&mastad ' 'WMSfffiW**. P^^P^l^sland, -. wi^h, .118 -Tsl^mdersv; on-, .board,!, ; , Tlie 'BWJP* jSphoQner, uas been; despatched toihes rescue.,.,. v V.. ..//. ! ' ''■'

'£>. Affairs. in the ßailway .Department -are hojt ,in a ; satisfactory; condition.,', > ', T wo officials,: in. . JjQi . JEngineer's. have, been suspended, A'p:inquiry is to. be held. .into - .the state,,': of ;tha, department generally.;, Mr ilesketh^ the',Christchurch,- station-master, .has . been suspeiaded..for..rn I subornation. to the!, jtrafl&o manager. .:-,.:-.-.. ' .-> " . '.' '"..,"

The following resolutions has-been carried; by, the,, Wellington, Education Board, after a long debate t,/* That f, six months' notice^e, gg i ven r terminatine the . arrangements , respecting, !: educational: matters, at present in force Wifeep the Roman. Catholic, and, .Churph.off England ieducationai, bodies an,^ . the \ , educa* '.' tional bodies, and, the .Education. Board for .the. 'Province 'of Wellington" s- This is an abandonment pf|)en6minationalism in; favor of Secularism,, i The Heaelsyillecpr-espondentiof the Melbourne ;^Daily Telegraph- writes the" follpwing.temble, account of the ravages ofjscarlet;fever ;— "The infant child -of Mir.,Green ; 'died .. this ; . afternoon, , after lingering overra fortnight under the awful disease, and. this now makes. up. r six.cut oftheeleven. children: affected.' Such a bereayment has never. perhaps been heard .pf before . in , one in such.a short, time/ ,

A. .letter ,in a Nelson ipaper says .thatthe'sing^femalesexQaroline mUst be-' very , badly managed, r or.- there: ;is' some gr,osS;;error ;f m ( , the; regulation;, of /the .Depot* for spme^ofithe young : ; women !are not only seeh;drinking.in:theh&rs at public , houses, but, in company with very questionable characters are found voini ing, the streets at a late-hour. .*'* , .. The r luxury, of being a, bachelor is .CQSt!y;in : some .quarters-rrWaikftto foe* instance. Six of the poor, fellows.' refused.to pay, the.taxof IQ^ per head-. imposed on. these- unfortunate ;-speci- • imens of . the genus homo, for- educar tibial purposes.;. They; were summoned i before „the; Resident Magistrate and : ordered jto pay the ajnourit and £g 17s for.costs- r lt ,is.,tobe hoped they. ; ap- . preciatOithe. luxury.; ' r - . ;. , .«'., c ; The lately elected ; member for the Bjuller,. Dr; Joseph Henry* nowcM.H.R. has. been : appointed ; :_nedical- referee', under the '^Government Insurance and 1 ;Annuities; Act^ f fo.r,;,t_u3. -distric'ti ofQharlestown.', Whether,; the | appoihtment.fpllows the eleotion, or,, whether he weul^ havef received, it otherwi.e, js : • hard to say., . Any how-it is,, in one.ease, prorppt .grati_ude;,for, support to i come,' IW&fmJM; Ingnpreviouslye declared , nimselt a Government .adherent: * V j A baker )W^ll- known in NflpW;lia_ levanted, and lefo behind him a number' ,of despairing: (W editors*/ He .WasVeeie- 1 - /brated.fo. . his, ;piety, ; and .unfortunately /or one gentleman- of .the. broadolothi soTimppsed.oni^is.cre^uHtyvaa.to get- f __im" =in a.weakinomentto! place liis signature; © m^AP^"-4i^Mwent. ißobping! around^::. /"//..• ./',/ '.yt'y-fr.y ' or^P on^ enfc; has d^awn)our (Weekly Mercury) .attention; to^theex^c ;^tence ; m i the;towr_ i of Napie. of aistat6 ; £f affairs^which should be.pUt arsfopto.t He says^That'ina habitation wfech^ x/l%thfer tf resides'.ipandividn_lss(Scandmavians);>.'lThere':: amongst them<:two mafriedi wofaen >&■ h^5) , ?? , ?? 4 ?' :^ aT^PFthe-country, jwhom is a young woman aged 16, and./ D tho:resfc ; ofTthe chappy ifomiM a.S sinfflC ;mehf oW C-lHnfe^ 1 ghich the : fthappy^ i^% }^^t^drii_fc speotpr of :%isaa_e#%_llsjt_rf _n> f kn<.^' -lans. > .-.-j-. {?<*■<, % -*xte i} ,;i-yf^ _yyy iy rs^%y - :

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