News Summary week ending July 11, 1895.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE, JULY 13, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING JULY 11.

British Parliament prorogued.

Maize in Brisbane 3s. 4d. per bushel.

Ex-M.L.A. For Dalby, J.S. Jessop, dies.

Heavy snow in portions of New Zealand.

Coen and Rocky River mailman missing.

Rockhampton water supply running short.

China successfully floats a loan in London.

Good prices in London for Australian wool.

Writs issued for general elections in N.S.W.

Yancannia station, N.S.W., sold for £86,000.

Ninth week of bootmakers' strike in Brisbane.

Alfred Bygate killed whilst hunting in Victoria.

Q.N. Bank buys Tamworth station for £4600.

Lugger Teatfish founders near Howick Island.

French troop in Madagascar massacre the Hovas.

A large whale is captured at Twofold bay, N.S.W.

Sugarcane in the Bundaberg district damaged by frost.

Charters Towers dividends for past half-year £128,000.

Party formed in Adelaide to prospect for petroleum.

Gladstone bids farewell to his Midlothian constituents.

A cow gores to death a Parramatta butcher named James.

Tiaro district, near Maryborough, takes a prohibition poll.

Three dwelling houses at the Albion destroyed by fire.

Tannery on the Barwon River, near Geelong, destroyed by fire.

Margaret Geary dies in the Gympie hospital from severe burns.

Michael Davitt meets with a splendid reception in Sydney.

Sir Henry Parkes declines to stand for election to Parliament.

Man in Dublin picks up a bomb which explodes and kills him.

Melbourne pawnshop burglarised of jewellery to the value of £1000.

Hydraulic life to be put in Parliament House for old fogies.

Battle in Cuba between Spanish troops and Cuban revolutionists.

Mysterious malady which drives horses mad at Berringa, Victoria.

Wallace wins the chess championship of Australia in Melbourne.

Arthur Lusher's head cut off by a railway train at Ashfield, N.S.W.

Preliminary meeting to abolish tolls over the Victoria Bridge, Brisbane.

West Australian export of gold for year ending 30^th June, 239,593oz.

Reported that China is granting railway route concessions to Russia.

August Deickmann accidently poisoned with carbolic acid at Mackay.

Verdict of £50 damages given against the Western Champion at Blackall.

Steamer Nineveh leaves Melbourne for London with 100,000 frozen rabbits.

Fancy dress football match played in Toowoomba in aid of local hospital.

Senior-constable Conroy stabbed to death at Thursday Island by a Manilla man.

Lord Brassey, Governor of Victoria, leaves England for Melbourne on the 18^th.

Ex-military commander of Victoria abuses the politics of that province in London.

A Chinaman in Sydney fined £100 for attempting to smuggle spirits and tobacco.

James Ayer, repairing a gas pipe in Melbourne, is killed by an over-rush of gas.

Czar of Russia awards £2000 to the police for the discovery of a Nihilist conspiracy.

Caroline Hill, two years old, strangled to death between palings at Glebe, Sydney.

Schooner Ivanhoe arrives at Cooktown with 560oz. of gold from Sudest and St. Aiguana.

W.F. Kadow quarrels with his sweetheart and then blows his brains out at Perth, W.A.

N.S.W. Rowing Association censures the Sydney crew that recently rowed in Brisbane.

A N.S.W. farmer named Braillon commits suicide at Terranera by shooting and hanging.

Captain of the S.S. Innamincka fined £100 at Freemantle for landing apples contrary to law.

Great Powers in Europe warn Bulgaria against fostering rebellion in Turkish Macedonia.

American ship Hilaria, loaded with Kerosene and resin, totally destroyed by fire at Melbourne

Fireman James Solway falls from the roof of the Normanby Hotel, Brisbane, and is severely injured.

Robert Curran, a little boy, accidentally killed through running against a gun near Grafton.

The Ringarooma court martial held in Sydney being inquired into by the British Admiralty.

Serious religious riots in India between Hindus and Mohammedans: 199 persons killed or wounded.

Sir Henry Parkes gets mad at the N.S.W. Premier and writes to the London Times on the subject.

A little boy named Clyde burned to death at Cooma, N.S.W., through his nightdress catching fire.

American buyers, excited at the London wool sales, force upward the price of merino and crossbred wools.

Melbourne Fire Brigade Superintendent Gee loses his life in endeavouring to combat the fire on the ship Hilaria.

French Government sends an expedition to China with the object of promoting trade between both countries

Geddes, Bois, and Co. erecting buildings on the Musgrave Wharf, South Brisbane, estimated to cost £20,000.

Victorian Premier asks the Chamber of Commerce to assist in preventing the sale of shoddy for woollen goods.

Gold returns of Queensland for past six months show an increase of 6045oz. over corresponding period last year.

Lord Rosebery declares resistance to the House of Lords to be the tap root of future politics in Great Britain.

Four brothers named Abrahams found guilty in Melbourne of conspiring to defraud by means of false trade marks.

Brisbane Trades' Association interview the Premier over Brisbane street hawkers and the proposed Early Closing Bill.

Robins, Aubrey, and Enright, sweep promoters, Charters Towers, found guilty of keeping lotteries and fined £1 each.

Terrible cyclone in Missouri, U.S. Forty-three persons killed and property damaged to the extent of several millions of dollars.