Gable Brevities

Feilding Star, Volume XIV, Issue 125, 11 April 1893, Page 2

Gable Brevities

♦ Sir Charles Lilley, in an electioneering address at Brisbane, makes a powerful nttuck on Kanaka labor and land grants for tbe construction of railways. He styles the latter system as an enactment for the benefit of sellers of scrip, gam" biers, and syndicates. A winch on the top of a buildme in the course of construction in Collins street, Melbourne, collapsed. The flying fragments completely deoapitated Mr Kogers, an engineer, the head being thrown to the opposite side of the street. Several passers-by were slightly injured, and a number of women fainted at tbe horrifying spectacle, : Messrs Huddart, Parker and Co., in a letter to the Sydney Government, propose that, in addition to the Canadian subsidy, the colonies should contribute £20,000, tbe seryice to be a monthly one, and if tbe inducement should be sufficient a fortnightly. Tiie mails to be delivered in London in 29 days. Miss Shaw, in one of her letters to the Times, London, states that Victoria pos< sessing such wealth, iv her back country, combined with the energy already shown, cannot be regarded as suffering any inextricable financial embarrassment. The country districts, she states, are per-* fcctlv sound and offer an, outlet for "English and Victorian euterprise. The letter adds that the supreme need of all Australia is not money, but population. The great Mormon Temple at Salt Lake City, which has been 40 pears in construction and lias cost a million sterling, has been dedicated with great ceremony. There has been rioting in Trafalgar Square. An organised body of three thousand teetotallers broke up a meeting which was being held iv opposition to the Local Veto Bill, and destroyed tfye banners. Several persons were injured,, a,qd ten of tbe ringleaders hare been arrested,. Nothing like leather! The Co-op Co. having purchased a stock of boots at 50 per cent under cost will sell the same at great reductions in every line. Particulars in a few days.—Advt. Persons of delicate constitution, who are obliged to abstain from ordinary Coffee, should try Crease's Taraxacum or Dandelion Coffee, n hich is recommended by the highest Medical Authorities as a rery valuable beverage for those suffering from weak digestion, flatulency, aervousness, etc. Not to know is not to aaye.--Ai>VT,