NEWS IN BRIEF.

Otago Witness, Issue 2892, 11 August 1909, Page 52

NEWS IN BRIEF.

I The sheep in Queensland number over 1 20,000,000. | Tho Labour Exchange Bill has passed the House of Lords. i English newspapers publish long articles ' on the Tennyson opntenary. | I The mew French submarine Archimedes, of 800 tens, the largest iv xh? world, -,vasts t launched at Cheibc-urg. | One hundTed and sixty-eight thousand I vvoTten have enrolled as voters for the Vie- i j toriar Legislative Assembly. j One of the men who were injured as a result of the explcsio or the \var>-h.p j Temeraire is dead. j New and drastu regulations have been ; framed undei the Federal quarantine Uiws ' Jto prevent shipping introducing plague. I j The New South "Wales Assembly >K-ga- ' i tiveel Mr M'Uowan's resolution in f«i%our 1 of allow irif; he police ono Sundaj off each fortnight. Snow fell this wcok in ma.ny part^ of New , South Wales. Similai xmditionr pre\ail in ; Victoria. ' Bxirjje, the boxer, wl'o was »e!itenc"d in 1902 for frauds ir Ln*>rpcol, wa-> iekj:>cd on ticket-cf-lea\e on Uie lOd 1 ins,.. Mi Deakin announces that steps aio bem^raken to provide a boat «md pro\j*.on> on tho Middleuor Reef for the u>e of ca^tawajs. The nK-rino ram Sir William has \yo'\ purchased by the tiustces of the late Sir , \V. J. Clarko for 1350gs ' A man named Duehemin, who was con- \ icted on a charge of parracide, hda heen ' guillotined ii: Paris. ' There are he-avy floous in fcl.e Cue clit--ti'ict, Weolralia, and nine \vafcha\va>s on the ' railway, 12 miles of which are under wat»r ' In the mter-Slar-e tennis match at Biis bane. Queensland defe.'ied New h'outh Wales by 15 rubbers to 6. , 1 The Federal High Court upheld the lower court's decision that the lean ballot cot:- ' dhicted by the Mutual Loan Agency (Ltd.) 1 wae in the nature of a lottery. > [ Shareholders in. the London .and Wostmin- ' ster and London County Banks hu\c ap1 proved the terms of amalgamation cabled , j on July 24 i ' At the Brisbane Jubilee show the ce v >ani- ! ' pion prize . was awarded to tha trotting stallion Dan Patch, a New Zealand-brad , horse. i A Sydney firm has obtained s rontracr , io supply the Admiralty with 100,0001b of , tinned mutton. i • Tho King received Sir JosepE Ward, '

j ] Prime Minister of New Zealand, at Bucks ingham Palace. s The Cretan* question, is becomuis: acute. The Porte is demanding specific assu! £l nce« from Greece. " It is stated that £150,00 C worth of potatoes are held up in Tasmania as a result J of the action of New South Wales <n ex3 eluding Tasmanian potatoes. ' A goods train collided witin a tramcar at r Longjumeau (Paris). Eleven persons were killed and 30 injured. : Some English newspapers are urging the i Government to discharge Lieutenant j Shaokleton'a expenditure on his lasr trip, j, which greatly exceeds the guarantee he gave. 5 The Jewish World states tha- the Freemasons are promoting a movement to rebuild Solomon's Temule at Jerusalem. r Masons throughout the world will be asked , to co-operate. 1 Pasha Ferid, Turkish Minister of the Inr, tenor, has resigned. Talaat Bey, leader of tae deputation to Great Britain, succeeds i him. > Mr . Babington Smith, Secretary of the s English Post. Office, has accepted the pre- > sidency of the National Bank of Turkey. , which is now in couise of formation. . Mysterious lights seen over the highlands at Mossvale, New South Wales, at a height . of 2000 ft, and supposed to be those of a . balloon or airship, were also witnessed by tho passengers on the Melbourne express. ; Lieutenant Akirlonoff, commander of tha , Russian submarine KaanbaJa, which was sunk and 19 lives lost, has been sentenced to five years' hard labour for the malver- ! sion of £336. which, had- been allocated to tha Kambala's repair. The death is announced in Sydney of Mother Mary, aged. 57, founder of the Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred; Heart. She contracted an illness which terminated fatally during her visi" to New Zealand in 1902. News from Noumea states that an earthquake of great violence was experienced at Espiritu Santo, in the New Hebrides. Many houses were thrown down, two etone houses being a mass, ot ruins. Th© volcano at Ambrym is in violent eruption. I Jacobs, the late manager of the Bank cf Adelaide at Caltowie, was sentenced to 12 months'- imprisonment for embezzling £215 belonging to the bank . The Hon. Thomas A. Powye, Lord Lilford's heir, died under an anaesthetic during ar operation for adenoids; aged 13 years. Mr Wade (the New South Wales Premier informed a deputation representing the Prohibitior party that he considered their request for State option by I a simple majority premature. I The Orsova'S mails were, badly damaged by water on reaching Melbourne. The explanation given is that the lighter bringing the mails aboard at Naples was swamped. j There is 18 pei cent, more- land under ! wheat this year in Victoria, and it ie ex- | pected that there will be an increase of | 1 3,500,000 bushels on the pluvious year's | harvest. ! , The Shackleton. Antarctic meteorological j records are being examined and arranged by Professor David, of Sydney. They will eventually be handed over to the Commonwealth. I The Times has published a letter from 1 Mr Frank Pitock, of Newcastle (New South Wales), opposing emigration to Australia or the ground that there is no land, for immigrants and a lack of employment. H.M.S. Powerful, with the Admiral aboard, is on a visit to Brisbane in con- | nection with the jubilee celebrations. From ! Brisbane she will go on a cruise to the ! islands. Johnson has deposited 5000dol ir connection with his match with Jeffries. Jeffries has sailed for the Continent to take the waters at Carlsbad. He will then go into strict training, and hopes bo fight Johnson early next year. Several American clubs have made offers in order to eecure the Johnson-Jeffries fight, including one of £10,000. In tha fifth and final best match the Australians, batting first, scored 325, of which Bardaley .nade- 156, Trumpes: 75, and Mae1 artney 50. The English team had lost two | wickets for 40 runs when stumps were drawn, Spooner and Maclaren botr f alii Jig I ■victims to Cotter. I Mr Deakin (th© Federal Prime Minister), i ii> the course of a speech, statec 1 that tho ; coming Budget would he the greatest in j magnitude and significance yet submitted ] to the- Commonwealth. Referring to the J approaching Premiers' Conference. he declared that the time for chaffering had gone. The Federal Government would enter the conference prepared for dome business-like action t< settle the J businos problem in thie part of the hemisphere. Dr Valintine (Inspector-general of Hospitals) rather favours the proposal that raises should be allowed to qualify and i»pister as dispensers of medicine. Thp Hon Mr Ruddo pointed out to ft deputation from the Master Bakers' As--ocuitior how they ?oul<l overcome the difficulty of not being able to sell fancy ]<u\e* of broad under 2lb or 41b weight, v. ithout being liable to a prosecution. If | thf viler' informed th© buyer of tho exact ■ v.<Mi'ht of tl>» loaf ho was buying the baker would relieve him«eif of the responsibility. ;