INTERCOLONIAL. MELBOURNE, August 26.

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INTERCOLONIAL. MELBOURNE, August 26.

The State Budget will be delivered early next month. It showa r surplus of £150,000. The railway surplus amounted. _to £300,000. but there Mas a deficit of j £150,000 in other accounts Against the ' railway .surplus will be a charge of £10,000 for the Braybiook railway disaster. August 30. Dr Alfred ifunes=, a lecturer at the Commercial University of Berlin, who is at present on a visit to Australia and New Zealand to study social legislation, in the course of an interview stated that the bulk of Australasian employers were- much . more fiiendly to workers than were the' employers of Europe. He greatly ad- ■ mired the enormous scheme of old-age peii- ' sions. j SYDNEY, August 24. I I Application has been made on behalf . of the Law Institute for leave to appeal to the High Court against the decision of the Full Court in reinstating R D. ' Meagher on the roll of solicitors. | The grounds for the application, (which has been granted) were : The opinion expressed by the Acting Chief Justice when

the case was before the Full Court that, there was matter for grave suspicion against Meagher in connection with' a. certain land transaction ; also Mr Justice: Pring'e dissenting opinion, and that thecourt Had not taken Meagher's original offence into consideration as it should have done. August 25. j Information has been received that a. I Dutch expedition will leave Batavia next. I month, under the leadership of Dr Lorenz, to explore the Snowy Mountains of New Guinea. Recent travellers who havesighted these mysterious mountains differ in opinion whether the ranges are snow* capped or whether it is merely an ilhi- . sion. BRISBANE, August 24. The German waa-ship Condor has re* turned from an extended but unsuccessful , search for the Government yacht Seeetern. f The captain of the Condor is of opinion ! that the Seestern has turned turtle,, and , tifiat all hands have been drowned-. r -- ' August 27. At the "Police Court to-day ,' Chariest John Lindley was remanded till Tuesday . on a charge of stealing £234, the property of the trustees of the late Mr Andrew Lees, at Dunedin. A constable from N«w Zealand stated that when he read the original warrant' to the accused the latter said he intended to plead guilty and get it over. August 30. Alexander Stuart, chief inspector of theQueensland National Bank, was found inhis room at the bank suffering from a., bullet wound, and had a revolver by hisside. He died shortly after the discovery.