AUSTRALIAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3501, 3 May 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(BY ELECIMO TELEGRAPH,)

(united press association,

SvD.VEr, May 1, The court-martial on the ringleaders connected with the alleged mutiny on board H.M.S. Egeria has commenced.

The Oolouial Treasurer stated in the House of Assembly this afternoon that for the first four months of the year a surplus .of £129,000 was shown,

At' the court martial, Allan, a second-class petty officer of H.M.S Egeria, accused of taking part in the mutiny among the men, was sentenced to five years' penal servitude. Another caso will be'heard to-morrow, andfive more on Saturday, Simpson,, a distant relative of Mr David' Berry, the millignaire, lias lodged a caveat against probate being granted to Mr John rjay,."on the ground that at the Jimp of making his will, the testator was not'hi a sound state of mind, Under the deceased's will the Coolangatta estate was left to Mr Hay. Bbisdane, Mayl. The Premier has asked Sir Henry Norman, Governor of Queensland, to request Admiral Lord Scott to thor> riughly survey Torres Straits, as it is feared there may beopier unknown ■ rooks (here, "'

Adelajde, May 2. Mr Henry E. Downer lias b*een appointed Attorney-General, ■ . Ttie .general operations of the Asset Company, wjiiob has taken over the Commercial Bank's assets, are. to be removed to : New' South Wales.

■ A prudent man is like a pim-Hia head prevents him going too far. . John Bull a MexjoMiiif he 1 knew the rengoir'wliy the sun never sets' on 'the Queen's' Jboihiiiipn. .»Because ; fleayi3ij''is'flfraid < 'f() ,i triißt! an Englishman in the dark," was the i reply. . .■■'.- "Whotlier the' influpnza is here or not, there is no doubt that many of I