News Summary July 6, 1895.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE JULY 6, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 3.

Wool market very brisk.

N.S.W. revenue decreasing.

Big bush fires near Hughenden.

Big fire at M'Grath's farm, Laidley.

President of Brazilian Republic dies.

Big seizure of smuggled cigars in Sydney.

Big boom in the United States iron trade.

Preparations in N.S.W. for a general election.

A Brazilian insurgent admiral commits suicide.

Terrible fires at Minneapolis and San Francisco.

Mayor of New York abolishes the Tamany Ring.

Australian butter selling in London at 8d. lb.

Trouble brewing between Bulgaria and Turkey.

A kanaka at Mackay commits suicide by shooting.

Jockey M'Nulty killed at Kensington races in N.S.W.

Deposits in Government savings bank still increasing.

A 6ft. 3in. Coal seam discovered at Coal Creek, Vic.

Germany decides on building eighteen new war ships.

Robert Prophet found drowned in the Brisbane River.

Rebecca Spurling aged 104 years, dies at Hotham, Vic.

Pig curing factory to be established at Lillydale, Victoria.

Police Sub-inspector Mathers reduced for neglect of duty.

Cattle shipped at Townsville sold in London alive for £20 10s.

An infernal machine sent to the Chief of Police in Berlin.

A little child is accidently drowned in a tub near Mareeba.

James Norton, aged 17 years, commits suicide at Capella.

Arthur Buck executed in Melbourne for the murder of a Woman.

Michael Davitt publicly welcomed in the Towns Hall, Hobart.

North end girder of Indooroopilly Bridge successfully launched.

United States revenue for 1894 shows a deficit of over £9,000,000.

Mrs. O'Brien, 71 year's old. burnt to death at Gerringong, N.S.W.

Sir Thomas M'Ilwraith goes to Germany for the benefit of his health.

Brisbane Ministers' Union approves of Government Gambling Bill.

A Melbourne man attempts to bribe a juryman and gets six months.

More than one-fifth of all the sheep in the world is now in Australia.

Secretary of Civil Service Board dismissed by the Executive Council.

Bootmaker's shop at Liverpool, Tasmania, burglarised and set fire to.

King of Abyssinia appeals to Russia against the encroachments of Italy.

Postal conference at Adelaide to arrange for the new ocean mail tenders.

There were 1,298,000 sovereigns coined at the Sydney mint last half year.

French Government enforces taxation on the property of religious orders.

Turkish soldiers in Macedonia refusing to obey the orders of the Sultan.

Neil Rosing's body exhumed at Mareeba owing to suspicion of foul play.

French War Minister says the maintenance of European peace is in danger.

Representatives of the press attend a meeting of the New York Suicide Club.

French Admiral reports that the French fleet is not in a condition for war.

Marquis of Salisbury assumes the office of Prime Minister of Great Britain.

James Moran committed for trial in Brisbane for uttering counterfeit coin.

N.S.W. Railway Commissioners commence to make their own railway tricycles.

A spieler, detected playing with loaded dice on the Blackall racecourse, fined £20.

W. M'Cormick, contractor for Indooroopilly Bridge, meets with a serious accident.

A Sydney detective named Roche committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter.

Lady balloonist, whilst making an ascent at Mackay, meets with a serious accident.

Steamship India leaves Rockhampton for London with a cargo valued at £46,000.

Steamer Otter leaves Brisbane with kanaka lepers for Friday Island, Torres Straits.

Austria, Bulgaria, and Servia mobilising troops to secure reforms in Macedonia.

An old resident of Drayton, named Reilly, is killed through the bolting of his horse.

British Admiralty sends a big flotilla of torpedo boats to the Mediterranean squadron.

Henry Bainbridge, miner, is seriously injured by an explosion of dynamite at Croydon.

Queensland Premier complains to New Zealand re that colony's unneighbourly treatment.

Editor Stead, of the Review of Reviews, fined £100 for commenting on the Jabez Balfour case.

Queensland Government gives another £100 to assist New Australians to return from Paraguay.

Thomas Brown, of Redfern, Sydney, murders his three children and reports it to the police.

Two mates and five seamen lost from the ship Argus on the voyage from Glasgow to Sydney.

Large area of land in the Northern Territory of South Australia taken up by English land grabbers.

George Dean, on being released from Darlinghurst gaol, is cheered by thousands of sympathisers.

Sydney larrikins cause the collapse of a circus during the performance by cutting the tent ropes.

New Roman Catholic Cathedral to be erected at Westminster, London, on freehold land value £300,000.

Government Assistant Geologist reports that there is nothing to warrant a rush to the Leichhardt goldfield.

Gladstone refuses to take part in the coming political campaign in Great Britain and intends to retire from politics.

Great Britain protests against the signing of a Franco Chinese Convention, which gives to France territory on the frontier of Siam.

Majority of jurymen who sat on the Dean case now regret that they did not hear the evidence given at the Royal Commission before giving their verdict. 

N.S.W. Royal Commission decides to release George Dean, who was convicted and sentenced to death on a charge of attempting to poison his wife in Sydney.