AUSTRALIAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3489, 19 April 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) SENTENCE oiTT DYNAMITER, THE UOUKKE FLOOD, Sydney, April 17. Thos. Cosgrove, auctioneer, charged with attempting to destroy .a stable in Castlereagii-street with dynamite, has been sentenced to ten years' hard labor. , The position of Bouvke is very critical, as there is a wall of six feet of water all rouiid the town, The embankment recently thrown up sprang a leak to-day, but. by smart work it was stopped before any serious damage was done. The railway line was out away to save the line and relieve the town and embankments, Mr E, M. G, Eddy has consented to allow the Tamworth News four weeks to make a full apology to him for the libel contained iu an article throwing discredit on his management of the railways, At Arewarrma, where the dam burst, the town is inundated to a depth of four feet, and business is entirely suspended. Several brick jbuildings ire collapsing, owing to ' oundations giving way. Adelaipe, April 18. . Professor Drummond, author of : "Natural Law in the Spiritual World," has arrived here. He ; proposes to deliver a series of- semi- , private lectures in ; the colonies, ] mostly by means of the Universities (

Trades and Labor DisputesLondon, April 17. The Upper House of York Convocation, on the motion ofßlejiop Moorehouse, instructed the clergy to encourage Boards of Conciliation for the settlement' of industrial disputes and the extension of co-operative production. The Trades Unions have published a ipnifesfQ stating that May Ist is unsuitable for the eight ;i6uw'Memonstration hi Hyde Park',-and appointing Sunday, May 4, instead. After a stormy meeting-between the representatives of workmen and Wjpbjer of Ooqfflerje, jf qlti-

nistelv decided that twelve trades should be represented on the concilia* tion committee.

The men assert that the master bootmakers'are shuffling, and insist that the question of enlarging and improving the workshops should ba promptly settled. Arrangements are being made to en/orce order daring the May demonstrations.

BREVITIES. '- Sunshine after rain. Interesting case in R.M. Court.. Masterton becoming notorious for pugilistio encounters. ■ ' A collision between "beef and "horseflesh"took place yesterday, but it did not come to "blowtf 1 ' ■ ; Decided by the Commission that • there ia no." sweating" in Welling- - ton, Labourers do not work'hard enough for that I ' Mr E. W.G.Eddy, .of Sydney, is suing the TamworlMewa for libel. ..tfThe journal in question is rather edi- '\ fiedlr ' ' • ,■■■'■■■ In the Bay of Plenty oases of influenza are Baid to be rather plentiful I Tbo London police have mado anotherraiduponthegamblinghouses,' This time. 67 persons havo been arrested, Bioting occurred amongst, the/ Silesjan miners, but the disturbance was suppressed by the military. The Socialists' declare., that labour demonstration on. the Ist May will be carried out everywhere without any disorder, The Upper House of York Convo- . cation on the motion of Bishop Moorhouse; instructed the clergy to encourage Boards of Conciliation for the.aettlQinent of industrial dispute's '' and the extension of co-operative production.

"ldidu't complain of milk adulterated with water," said a customer to the milkman;" I had got used to that; hut now you bring water adulterated with milk, and I don't like it,"

■ Photographer (to sitter):" I saw you at church last Sunday," Sitter; .... " Oh, did you,?". Photographer : fr;.\ "Yes, and also your friend, Miss *»• Brown -if you could raise your chin a trifle, thanks—and what an atrocious looking hat she had on I' 1 (Altera pause,) "Thero, itiaover, and I think we have caught a very pleasant expression," ■ 'jk. "I rather like that idea," said Henry,gazingatamanwhowasplaying : a drum, oymbals, clarinet, and four other instruments at one time. • " Why so ?" asked William, " you have only to kill one man to wipe out the entire band," was the sanguinary reply, "And now, children," remarked Professor Halles, in one of the public. schools the other day, "if a family consisting of father and mother, and seven children should have a pie for dinner, how much would each one receive?" "Why," remarked the bright boy," each one would get an eighth.'* "But there are nine persons, you must remember." " Oh, I know that; but the mother wouldn't get any. There wouldn't be enough to go round,"—Albany Journal, A man who wanted to buy a horse asked a friend how to tell a horse's age. "By his teeth," was the reply,, The next day the man wont to a <■ horsa' dealer, who showed himJWi splendid blaok horse. Tho horse-i Y hunter opened the animal's mouthia "I don't want him," said he, "he's ■■' thirty-two years old. He had counted the teeth.

_ Old Professor: " Why, Mr Barkins, glad to see you, I'm sure. How time does fly J Why, it seems to be only a few years ago that I gave you a sound thrashing." Barkins: "I remember it. I've always wanted to get even with you for that. Have a cigar, wont you.' 1