INTERCOLONIAL BREVITIES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 5 March 1901, Page 4

INTERCOLONIAL BREVITIES.

The N.S.W. Railway Commissioners are about to construct !300 additional wagons each to carry 15 tons, lhe greatest capacity hitherto has been 10 tons. A site in the West-Terrace Cemetery, Adelaide, has been granted to the Cremation Society by the South Australian Government for the purpose of a crematorium.

It is stated that the imports of Australian wines into tho United Kingdom for the twelve months ending 31st December last wero 79,000 gallons above the imports of the preceding year.

The Western Australian Government, on behalf of the New Zealand Government, recently called for tenders for 50,000 railway sleepers. Tenders were opened on February 13. That of Mr G. Baxter was tho lowest.

An elderly bedridden woman named Fanny M'Guire met with a strange death at Hobart. She was entrusted with a bottle of liniment for outward application. When alone she swallowed the contents and died in great agony. A verdict of death from misadventuro was recorded by the jury.

A fountain erected to tho memory of the officers, non-commissioned officers, and men of the Now South V,'ales military forces who have been killed in South Africa while on active service will bo unveiled at Chatswood on Sunday 10th March.

The Victorian Full Court dismissed the petition of a lady resident of Tasmania for divorco from her husband, who is domicled in Victoria. It was ruled that the petitioner was debarred from succeeding by the 74th section of tho Marriages Act, which provides that no person shall be entitled to petition who shall have resorted to Victoria for that purpose ODly. Mrs George Harris, of Ultimo House, Sydney, founded in the University of Sydney a scholarship in memory of her late husband, it is to be awarded in the Faculty of Law. The principal sum given by Mrs Harris is £I7OO, and tho annual value of the scholarship is £SO, while any accumulations are to be plied to the establishment of a further scholarship or scholarships when funds permit.

The steamer Chemnitz, from Hamburg, which arrived on Saturday, loth December at Melbourne, while in deg south and 173 deg east, passed an iceberg 300 ft high and three-quarters of a mile square. Twenty other bergs were also counted within a very short distance. This is the first time for many years that ice has approached so near the Australian coast. An attempt was made the other day to rob the Ironbark Mine at Bendigo. The thieves decended the 760-ft level, but failed to find any quartz worth taking away. It was subsequently found that some of the. oregon posts in tho level were on fire. This was apparently caused by the careless use of candles. The fire was extinguished before any harm was done.