INTERCOLONIAL

Otago Witness, Issue 2813, 12 February 1908, Page 25

INTERCOLONIAL

MELBOURNE. February 6.

Mackley has been sentenced to seven years' imprisonment in connection with the attempt to wreck the Adelaide express near Horsham.

David Chard, a farmer at Ilrang, has been ai rested on a charge of attempting to have poison administered to a baby. This is the outcome of a letter received by a young woman from a young man inciting her to nnurder her child as preliminary to her marriage with him. Mr Deakin has received a telegram from the German Consul-general at Sydney stating that the matter of sending convicts to the Pacific was only mentioned by one man in the Reichstag, and passed quite unnoticed by German public opinion. February 7. A number of questions -were asked in the Senate in respect to the £5000 voted for the Nimrod expedition. The Minister said that the application for the grant was not made by Professor David alone, but representations came from various sources. There was no reason to believe the expedition was a speculative one, as suggested in one of the questions. February 10. The balance sheet of the company which brought out the German Opera Company has been published. After absorbing the whole of the capital, Mr Musgrove was left with a loss of £298. What profits had been made in Adelaide and Melbourne were absorbed by losses in New Zealand, Tasmania, and the second season in Melbourne. SYDNEY, February 7. The Chief Inspector of Mines, giving evidence before the Royal Commission on the Newcastle creeps, said that the cathedral had probably suffered by being on the boundary of two creeps. It was impossible to approach the old workings, owing to the fire and water. The fire was caused by suppressed combustion. ADELAIDE, February 5. The prospectus is being privately circulated in Adelaide of a, limited liability company entitled "The Christian Colonists, Limited," with a capital of one million pounds, in £1 shares. The object is to found a Clrristiajn oolony in connection with the transcontinental railway proposal. Scriptural phraseology and other persuasive means are employed in the prospectus to induce the public to subscribe. The locality of the proposed colony is not stated. February 6. ' A robbery of £800 worth of jewellery has been committed at Payneham. February 10. Detectives came across a man carrying a bag. The man, when he saw them, bolted and dropped his bag, which was found to contain the whole of the proceeds of the Bayneham jewellery robbery, valued at £800. The man has not been captured. BRISBANE, February 10. There were two cases of plague during the week.