General News Summary June 29, 1895.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, JUNE 29, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JUNE 26

Burglary at Lakes Creek.

Queensland Parliament opens.

New Zealand Parliament opens.

Scarcity of Kanaka slaves reported.

A little girl is burnt to death at Bulimba.

Rebellion in Macedonia against Turkish rule.

Mayor of Sydney entertains the Gaiety girls.

Owner of an illicit still at Melbourne fined £300.

Valuable discovery of manganese near Warwick.

Alligators plentiful at the Cardwell meat works.

English wheat crop this year the smallest on record.

Wilcannia, N.S.W., to be lighted by electricity.

New Trades Hall at Newcastle formally opened.

Best Australian tin quoted in London at £63 per ton.

A kanaka sentenced to death at Mackay for murder.

Big robbery of jewellery at Scott, Dawson's Sydney.

A Croydon boy swallows a pin and dies from the effect.

Reported gold discovery at Gold Creek near Brisbane.

Lively proceedings in the Italian Chamber of Deputies.

More big seizures of smuggled jewellery in Tasmania.

Meat works about to be established near Charleville.

An Ipswich boy of 13 gets six months for horse stealing.

Spanish steamer lost near Selquin 120 persons drowned.

Spurious silver coins reported in circulation around Brisbane.

Professor Huxley reported recovering from a dangerous illness.

Reported discovery of a plot to kill the Sultan of Turkey.

Favourable reports from the Bower Bird Creek gold diggings.

U.S. Transport Commission inspecting the railways of Australia.

Gatton clergyman dies from the effects of falling from his horse.

Maharajah of Patna murders his wife and then commits suicide.

Five men and two women arrested in a Sydney betting house.

A man dies in the Silverton Hospital after taking herbalist's pills.

Lakes Creek Meat Works starts exporting preserved meat to Japan.

E. Y. Lowry returned unopposed as an alderman for Townsville.

An Eight-hour Bill is read for a third time in the N.S.W. Assembly.

Russian Government reported to be buying Suez Canal shares largely.

Mrs. Jenkins, in Victoria, gives birth to four children, three of whom die.

Great faction fight in Cork between the Redmondites and Dillonites.

Toowoomba Municipal Council offer to pay expenses of local fire brigade.

Acute political crisis in N.S.W. between Lower and Upper Chambers.

Barque Stoneleigh on a voyage from Melbourne to London is wrecked.

Mary Parkes attempts to commit suicide in Brisbane by cutting her throat.

A Victorian railway station burglarised and safe blown open with dynamite.

William Lawson dies from the effects of falling down the hold of the S.S. Cintra.

Michael Davitt expresses delight at the South Australian village settlements.

French squadron ordered to Beyrout, in Turkey, the scene of recent outrages.

M'Conville, railway shunter at Goulburn, N.S.W., killed while shunting trucks.

A boy, aged 9 years, dies in Melbourne from lockjaw, caused by the prick of a thorn.

Lewis Harris killed through the bursting of a centrifugal at Rowe's mill, Woongarra.

Fatal accident at Georgetown, George Huddle thrown out of his cart and killed.

School committees protesting against the regulations of the Minister for Education.

Duke of Cambridge resigns the position of Commander-in-Chief of the English Army.

Boiler explosion at Heywood, Vic.; two men killed and two others seriously scalded.

Mrs. Dean sentenced to death in New Zealand for the wholesale murder of infants.

James Carberry falls overboard from a dredge launch at Maryborough and is drowned.

Fifty-one warships representing fourteen powers at the opening of the North Sea canal.

Thomas Ballard sentenced to ten years in Melbourne for attempting to shoot a policeman.

Lord Ripon, Secretary of State, declines to re-open the question of separation in Queensland.

Emperor of Germany advises the Sultan of Turkey to do what he is told by the Great Powers.

Dreadful accident to a Mackay wharf labourer through the breaking of hoisting machinery.

British Liberal Government is defeated in Parliament and resigns. Tory Government takes office.

Albert Rosewell gets five years in a Melbourne gaol for attempting to shoot a landlord's agent.

A Brisbane justice of the peace charges Police Magistrate Pinnock with discourtesy towards him.

Two miners fall down a shaft 450ft. At Redan (Vic). One is killed and the other maimed for life.

Mass meeting of Temperance societies in Brisbane to protest against the law against street preachers.

Two men accidentally poisoned at Port Melbourne through drinking arsenic in mistake for epsom salts.

An Edinburgh professor claims to have discovered an antidote against the bites of venomous snakes.

Reported that Lord Wolsely is to succeed the Duke of Cambridge as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army.

Dominion Parliament of Canada resolved to prohibit the making and selling of alcoholic liquor except for scientific or medical purposes.

Three non-commissioned officers of an Austrian Hussar regiment sentenced to death and eleven soldiers imprisoned for life for the murder of a sergeant.

German Emperor invites the British squadron which took part at the opening of the North Sea Canal to remain for two days after the departure of other squadrons.