General News Summary, week ending September 11, 1895.

*THE WORKER*

BRISBANE SEPTEMBER 14, 1895.

General News Summary.

FOR THE WEEK ENDING SEPTEMBER 11.

Disastrous bush fires.

Big fires at Eketahna, N.Z.

British Parliament prorogued.

Scarcity of water in Toowoomba.

Sir G.R. Dibbs visits Townsville.

N.S.W. churches praying for rain.

Big gale at Hobart damages crops.

Collapse of a pier at Morecamba, Eng.

Sydney going in for a loan of £3,727,000.

Numerous betting prosecutions in Sydney.

New meat works to be erected at Redbank.

Wool markets in London still rising in prices.

Gold prospects on Horn Island reported good.

Queensland beef selling in London at 3d. per lb.

Wragge calculates thunderstorms in the near future.

Schooner Lookout goes ashore on Cocoanut Island.

Two thousand deaths daily in Pekin through cholera.

Boiler explosion at Maldon, Vic. No one injured.

A man named Curly shot dead at Grenfell, N.S.W.

Discovery of mammoth fossils at Mount Morgan.

Skeleton of Moa, 5ft. High, found in New Zealand.

Land in Queen-street, Brisbane, sold at £500 per foot.

Four kanakas arrested in Mackay on a charge of murder.

Archduke of Austria accidentally shoots himself fatally.

Church of England at Warkworth, N.S.W., burnt down.

Alfred Felstead, jockey, killed at the Wagga Wagga races.

John Connor, aged 108 years, dies in the Echuca hospital.

Thirty miners entombed in a burning mine in Michigan, U.S.

English capitalists largely investing in Victorian coal mines.

Terrible outrages by Turkish troops still continue in Armenia.

A lord removed from the Commission of the Peace in England.

Three men drowned through a boating accident at Otago, N.Z.

Chinese gardener at Ingham kills another Chinaman with a hoe.

There are 150 bead of stamps idle at Croydon for want of water.

John Kilfoyle accidentally shoots himself dead at Dubbo, N.S.W.

A banana plantation of 25 acres at Mount Cotton destroyed by fire.

A wharf labourer named Patrick Donnell is drowned at Rockhampton.

Underground fires at Block 10, Broken Hill, still continues and extends.

A child named Holmes run over and killed by a train at Eaglehawk, Vic.

Steamship loads 1650 tons of frozen meat at Townsville for English markets.

French President declines the invitation of the Lord Mayor to visit London.

John Watts, Melbourne. Shoots his wife dead and then commits suicide.

Rockhampton citizens agitate for a Supreme Court judge to reside in that town.

British Government threatens Turkey in connection with Armenian reforms.

Numerous arrests in China in connection with the recent missionary outrages.

Decapitated head of George S. Finch found on the railway line at St. Kilda, Vic.

Influenza amongst the shearers in the Riverina, N.S.W., delaying shearing.

Edward Evans, miner, killed by a fall of stone in the Coalcliffe colliery, N.S.W.

British Government re-opens the case of John Daly, alleged dynamiter, in prison.

Sir G. R. Dibbs appointed managing trustee of the N.S.W. Government Savings Bank.

George Clarke, leader of a Cairns prospecting party murdered by New Guinea natives.

A Sydney man obtains a verdict of £100 against a woman for being bitten by her dog.

A child dies in the Rockhampton hospital from the effect of burns received in a bush fire.

Daniel Vince, a champion axeman, killed at Hobart through the limb of a tree falling on him.

Owing to the revival of Nihiliem remarkable precautions are taken for the protection of the Czar.

A miner named Blake is blown to pieces in N.S.W. through carelessly heating dynamite.

A sailor seized with an epileptic fit falls from the yardarm of his ship whilst in Brisbane.

Samuel Quakern falls down the hold of the steamer Glanworth in Brisbane and is seriously injured.

An Anarchist unsuccessfully tries to explode a bomb in Rothschild’s bank, Paris, and is captured.

Dead body of a boy named Albert Kelleske, 14 years old, found hanging by the neck in Adelaide.

Edward Barrett terribly injured through falling on a circular saw at Middle Ridge, Toowoomba.

Villages of Broughton and Jasper’s Brush, N.S.W., swept by bush fires. Some houses and furniture burnt.

Townsville Chamber of Commerce furious against the claims of Rockhampton for a Supreme Court Judge.

Rockhampton deputation interviews Premier Nelson and gets no satisfaction re resident Supreme Court Judge.

The certificate of Captain Thomson, of the steamer Ranelagh, suspended for three months for default in a collision.

The family of an English trader hanged in Congo, Africa, demand a big indemnity from the Belgian Government.

Paris newspaper incite French Government to refuse an indemnity for the imprisonment of ex-U.S. Consul in Madagascar.

Replying to the Pope’s encyclical the Archbishop of Canterbury calls on English churchmen to stand by their own church.

Total damages given against the N.S.W. railway commissioners over the Redfern disaster amounted to £34,361 13s. 2d.

George Robert Rogers receives Royal Humane Society medal for heroic conduct in saving life at Ingham last year during floods.

A N.S.W. member of Parliament, named Chapman, summoned under “corrupt Practices” for treating persons during late elections.

Imperial Federation League in England suggests that Australia be asked to contribute more money for the support of the British navy.