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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume I, Issue 42, 17 September 1887, Page 2

The Tasmanian Government charge lawyers a £2 annual license fee and doctors £lO. It should be the other way. about. A Christchurch barber is opposing Vogel, but the latter need not fear a “ close shave.” Sir Jooleyus, with all his faults, would be sadly missed in the new House, and his seat is perfectly safe. The fashionable Episcopal churches of New York have decided to sell no more pews, but to make them free to all. This is in consequence of a fund of nearly half a million having been left to the churches by the late Catherine Lorillard Wolfe, coupled with a request that they should bo free to the public. The 1 West Australian 1 of the 16th inst. published an account of a remarkable overland journey from Port Lincoln to Perth performed by Henry Mazzini, who started from York Peninsula in January 1886 with his wife and six children, in search of employment. He had been manager at an out sheep station ; but had lost his employment through the run being out up into farms. He crossed over by the Port Lincoln steamer, and then began one of the most remarkable journeys ever undertaken by a man with all his domestic encumbrance about him. He had a two house van and £lOO in money, and, his object being to obtain employment he travelled from station to station westward until he found himself unable to return. When well into the Australian Bight, he found his horses unable to travel if he turned ■ back, and he therefore decided to go straight 1 on. He left Port Lincoln in the beginning of ■ the year, worked on a station near Esperance (from August to May of this year, when he left going straight across the country, and he I reached Perth on the Bth of last month. His 1 children bore up well during the journey, but , the wife died shortly after her confinement | near Esperance. The family must have travelled about 1500 miles,