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GENERAL NEWS.
The steamer Nemesis now on the way
from Adelaide to Fremantle, has on board
shipments of gold coin to the value of
£20,000— £10,000 of which is for Messrs.
Dalgety and Co., Ltd., and the remainder
for the Commercial Bank.
Among the passengers booked by the
homeward R.M.S. Orient for this colony are
Mrs. Ferguson and Mrs. Banter — both
from Sydney.
Mr. and Mrs. McQueen have booked pas-
sages from London to Albany per Massilia,
leaving Plymouth Nov. 27.
A War Office notice of Oct. 27 states that
Lieut. Edmund D. Harvest, of the Duke of
Cambridge's Own (Middlesex) Regt., has
been promoted to the rank of Captain. The
gentleman in question is the eldest survi-
ving son of Colonel Harvest, who was for-
merly Commandant of the Troops in this
colony.
It will be within the recollection of our
sporting readers that Mr. De Mestre, of
New South Wales, the breeder of this
year's Melbourne Cup winner, entered a
protest against the stakes and trophy of
the leviathan prize being paid over to Mr.
Redfearn, the present owner of the son of
Malua — Madnap, on the ground that Mal-
volio's dam was presented to the latter
gentleman for racing, and not for breeding
purposes. The protest has, however, been
argued before the stewards of the V.R.C.,
who upheld Mr. Redfearn's claim and hand-
ed him the proceeds of his fortunate win
accordingly.
The prawn season, together with that of
the crab, is an unusually prolific one. On
Dec. 2, between the Lower Canning Bridge
and Mount Henry, upwards of a hundred
gallons of prawns were netted, while the
various bays contiguous to the city are lit-
erally alive with crabs.
The number of sea monsters reported to
have been been of late, in different parts
of the world, is very large. The last story
comes from the eastern coast of Australia,
and runs as follows — A diver named
Macartney, in the employment of the Har-
bors and Rivers Department, while at work
at Newcastle harbour yesterday under a
pontoon near the pilot boatshed, saw a large
sea monster, fully 30ft. long, with a dog-
shaped head and large eyes, approaching
him. Macartney, becoming alarmed, gave
the signal to haul up, and on reaching the
surface fainted from fright. The monster
was subsequently seen by two men in a
boat, who succeeded in stabbing it twice
with a boathook. Although a sharp look-
out has been kept the monster has not been
seen since.
The first-class yacht recently built by Mr.
Brown, of Fremantle, to the order of Mr.
E. B. Burnside, was taken on a trial trip in
the Fremantle harbour on Dec. 2, during
which she acquitted herself very favorably.
This yacht, which has been named the
Iverna, after the crack English boat of
that name, is considered by yachtsmen to
be the best model that has been launched
up to the present time in these waters.
This welcome addition to our river fleet
will be sailed up to Perth next Saturday.
The Albany Advertiser of the 30th ult.
contains the following notice of the funeral
of the late Mrs. Loftie:— The remains of
Mrs. Loftie were interred in the Church of
England cemetery on Saturday afternoon.
The cortege was formed at four o'clock at
the residency. The coffin, which was laden
with wreaths, was carried by bearers. The
pall-bearers were Mr. A.Y. Hassell, M.L.A.,
Mr. John Hassell, J.P., Mr. G. A. Bailey,
J.P., Mr. C. R. Fenwick, J.P., Mr. W. G.
Knight, J.P., and Mr. H. M. Thomas. The
chief mourners were Miss Loftie, Mr. S. R.
Hamersley, and Mrs. Turpin. In the
procession were the Mayor (Mr. S. Moir),
the Town Councillors, the Town Clerk,
the Rev. T. A. James, the Rev, J. Thom-
son, the Government officials and many pro-
minent townsmen. The proeession proceed-
ed to S. Jobn Church, where the service was
read by the Rev. W. Wardell-Johnson, the
Rector. It was then reformed and march-
ed to the cemetery, where the attendance of
the public was very large, and the remaind-
er of the Office for the Dead was read by the
Rector. Floral wreaths and crosses to the
number of over twenty were placed on the
coffin and on the grave. Owing to illness
the husband of the deceased was unable to
be present. The undertaking arrangements
were carried out by Mr. J. C. Mews.
It may not be generally known in local
sporting circles that Mr. W. Willis, of Fre-
mantle,recently imported a first-class wager
boat from the well-known boat building
firm of Messrs. George Edwards & Sons,
Melbourne. The boat is a single-streak
racing outrigger, 31ft long and 11ft, beam,
and weighs 32 lbs. She is built of cedar,
and has ebony bottom slides and swivel
rowlocks. Now that there are two wager
boats in the colony the possibility of a race
for the championship of W. A. between Rose
and Willis is being amply discussed.
The following extraordinary letter,
order the heading of " born to win a for
tune, '' appears in a recent issue of the
Melbourne Sportsman : — "In looking over
an old paper — it may be a week old or
more — I notice that a man has thought on,
and evidently put into practice, a method
by which he can win money at Monte
Carlo. Though it is not believed possible,
it is to be done at horse racing. I can win
a sum of twenty pounds at every race
meeting I attend with a very nominal capi-
tal, and will sell the knowledge for a clear
thousand, and will prove clearly by past sta-
tistics of racing; that the scheme is practic-
able, and no such theory has been advanced
before. I will go back one, two, three, or
more years, and take every meeting miss-
ing none, and conclusively prove its genui-
neness. You will notice that I do not pro-
pose to break the ring, as I only expect to
take out a score each meeting, so that the
game must last. Yours, etc., Thomas
Kean. A win of twenty a day or meeting
win soon pull back the capital invested,
and pay big interest, and a better reserve
than building societies that we hear a lot
of late. Numurkah, 19th November, 1891.
A correspondent writes : — A paragraph
appeared in last Thursday’s issue of the
Daily News which recalls the daring deeds
of one of the boldest, cruellest and most
cunning of men who have ever taken to
bushranging in Australia, either for gain,
or idle, vicious gratification of their brutal
passions. I refer to the death of Harry
Power, the scoundrel but for whom (in the
opinion of many) Ned Kelly and his com-
panions in crime would not have been se-
duced into the evil course which ten years
ago, put them to their doom within the
sombre looking walls of the Melbourne gaol.
Power, it will be recollected, stuck up a
mail coach near Porejsukka, in the Ovens
district, in Victoria, on May 7,
1869, and afterwards the Buckland mail
coach, within 5 miles of Beechworth. The
Victorian Government, on August 28, 1869,
offered a reward of £500 for his arrest, but
he escaped until June 5, 1870, when he was
captured by Superintendents Nicholson
and Hare and Sergeant Montford, while
asleep in a hut in the Glenmore ranges.
Power, who also believed that he was be-
trayed by the afterwards famous Ned Kelly,
had a revolver by his side, and a gun close
to his head. He was tried at the Beech-
worth assizes, and being found guilty
(August 2, 1870) on three charges of robbery
was sentenced to 5 years’ imprisonment
on each charge, the sentences to be cumu-
lative. Power exhibited much bravado in
court, and on being sentenced requested the
judge to “ draw it mild.”
Both Houses of Parliament will be
opened by His Excellency the Administra
tor at 8p.m. next Monday.
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