NEWS AND NOTES.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 6 April 1901, Page 4

NEWS AND NOTES.

Whilst on a private visit to Melbourne, Lady Hopetoun inspected the decorations and alterations going forward at the Government House, and it is understood that her ladyship did not find matters altogether satisfactory, homely and artistic effect oeing sacrificed for gorgeous colouring. At the Adelaide Criminal Court, Chas, Walter Chandler was sentenced to three month? in Adelaide Gaol and was fined JGSO, for a defamatory libel respecting Emma Bowden. The libel complained of was contained in an article entitled “Darkest Adelaide,” published in accused’s paper, the “Free Lance”. The central committee in charge of the scheme for erecting in Melbourne a mememorial statue to Queen Victoria, decided that the statue should ho erected on the east side of the St. Kilda-road, between Prince’s Bridge and the Government Domain, where the old Immigrants’ Home at present stands. The home is to lie pulled down. The Victorian statistical office lias only just issued its facts and figures for the period from 181)5 to 1898. This has given rise to grave complaints throughout the State, as the period since 1895 has been one of considerable commercial and productive activity, and the figures regarding it arc wanted for Federal political purpose?. The number of candidates for the matrienkrion examinations at Sydney University this year is 107, and for the entrance examination for the faculties of medicine, science, and engineering there are twentyeight. Last year the corresponding numbers were 149 for matriculation and thirty for (ho entrance examination, The Australian Agricultural Company’s Borehole Pit, one of the best-known collieries at Newcastle, is to be closed down permanently this week, having been worked out. It was opened in the sixties on the scam from which it look its name. For some years the pit has been worked with only a few hands. The A.N.A. Conference (Melbourne), which, to quote the State Premier (Mr. Peacock’s) own words, “ would like to undertake the reform of everything on earth,” decided that the time was opportune for considering the princples .of Imperial Federation. They also plunged into a scheme of educational reform, advised the directors to send prominent members of the Association to New Zealand to advocate Federation there, and were about to debate and settle questions of naval and military defence, when Mr. Peacock’s sarcastic allusion pulled them up dead. The A.N.A. has a membership of about 25,000, and thinks it is running the whole of Australia, and keeping it from dreadful political and social disaster

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