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NEWS OF THE DAY.
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Four letters for ' Confidential' are now
lying at this office, r
A concert in aid of the City Temperance
Cricket Club is being arranged for Satur
day night, September 3, in the Temperance
Hall, Barrack-street.
A meeting of the executive committee of
the Perth Working Men's Club will be held
at eight o'clock this evening, for the trans
action of important business.
The name of — -. Hamersley has been
added to the list of persons for. whom
unclaimed messages are lying at the
Central Telegraph Office.
A meeting of the provisional committee
appointed to do their best towards re
organising the Canning Eace Club will be
held at the United Service Hotel this
evening, at eight o'clock.
Ninety-two additional town lots at Derbj
have recently been surveyed and are how
open for purchase at the upset price of .£20
each. The contents of each lot is halfan
acre.
According to advices by last mail the
only passengers who stood as booked to
proceed from London for Albany were — per
Parramatta, leaving Sept. 23, Mrs. Grundy ;
per Carthage, leaving Oct 21, Messrs.
Brittain and Douglas.
The Grand National circus will not open
this evening, but to-morrow the circus will
perform for the last time in Perth, on the
grant higher up James-street than the one
on which they have been playing. The
change has had to be made on account of
the wet weaher.
Next Tuesday evening, the 30th inst.,
has been fixed for the repetition of the
Service of Song entitled 'Little Dot,' at
the Trinity Congregational church. No
charge is made for admission, but the
custom prevails at these entertainments for
each person entering to drop a silver coin
into the plate. By this means small,
though welcome, additions are made to the
resources of that very important and useful
auxiliary of religious education — the
Sunday-school Fund.
At the City Police Court this morning
Mrs. Hannah Lewis summoned one of her
three sons to show cause why he should
not contribute 2s. a week towards her sup
port. It appeared from the plaintiff's
statement that her two other sons allowed
her 2s. per week each, but that the defen
dant had neglected to do so. In his de- J
fence the alleged recalcitrant son stated 1
that he was at present earning only just
enough to provide for his own maintenance ;
and, accepting that view of the case, the
Police Magistrate adjourned the case until
the 26th September next, expressing a hope
that by that time the parties might be able
to arrive at some arrangement between
themselves. This was the only case that
occupied Mr. Leake's attention thiB morn
I ing.
I Eason, Webster & Co., of Hay-street,
Perth, do not make sufficient, profit out of
the sale of their goods to pay for lengthy
and costly advertisements. They prefer
giving their customers the very best qual
ity of goods at the lowest prices, thus giving
them the benefit of the money otherwise
spent in advertising. Note.— a trial will
prove this. — Advt.
With the heading the ' Eapid delivery
of letters .- street door letter boxes,' the
Postmaster General has issued -the follow
ing circular :— It is desired to call the at
tention of the public to the great assistance
which, at a small cost, they can give to the
Post Office, and to the advantage they
themselves may gain from increased rapid
ity in the delivery of letters, by the general
adoption of street door letter boxes. The
general use of these letter boxes ivill also
tend materially to shorten the labor of the
letter-carriers, who will thereby be enabled
to complete their delivery without those
delays at street doors which are now so
frequent. .
Eain is officially recorded to have fallen
at the undermentioned meteorological
stations, during the 24 hours preceding
9 a.m. to-day, as follows .—Northampton
?06, Geraldton '05, Dongarra-06, Greenough
?03, Carnamah -06, New Norcia -03, New
castle -06, Northam -03, Guildford -15,
York '03, Perth -22, Fremantle -57, Jarrah
dale -07, Pinjarrah -10, Bannister #03,
Bridgetown '10, Bunbury '05, Vasse '01,
Kojonup f06, Albany *44, Bremer Bay *65,
Esperance Bay #66, while at Israelite Bay
?50 points of an inch were registered. The
weather at Eoebourne, Cossack, the Fortes
cue and the Ashburton is reported to be
fine; frosty at the Bannister; and cloudy,
or threatening, at all the other observing
stations in the Colony.
A football match willtak'e place on the
new Eecreation Ground to-morrow between
a team chosen from the West Australian
Football Club and a team of the Victorian
Football Club j play to commence at 3
p.m. The following will represent the
'Wests.':— F. McDonough (Capt.), E.
Eamsay (Vice-Capt.), P. Cahill, J. Lewis,
J. Hardwick, I. Vincent, S. Lawrence, J.
Brown, M. Eichards, D. Baldwin, N. \valsh,
B. Chapman, A. Dalziell, E. Bloomer, W.
Eose, W. Delaney, W. Eowland, J. Lillias,
J. Gilbert, and H. Armitage. Emergen
cies :— J. Donnelly, J. Craig, F. Bogue, and
T. Collett. The undersigned will represent
the 'Vies.':-— H. Wilson (Capt.), H.
Sadler (Vice-Capt.), J. Kneale, J. Jones, E.
Ward, W. Cook, W. Shean, A. Connelly, E.
Salter, P. McGann, E. Nolan, P. J.Healy,
W. Eeilly, C. Hardey, — Eidley, W.
Spooner, J. Neeson, S. Mead, H. Stevens,
and A. Lake. Emergencies; — B. Drabble,
G. Florance, W. Busby, and Munyard.
There lives at the Moat Farm, Carrick,
a man named Samuel Cox, one of the most
remarkable men in Tasmania, on account of
his great age and vigour. He says that he
was born in the north of Wales on the 15th
November, 1773, and if this is correct he is
now nearly 1 14 years of age. He is remark
ably strong considering his great age, and
two or three days a week walks a distance
of three or four miles. He is a most inde
pendent old fellow, and will not move from
Carrick. Comfortable quarters have been
provided for him, both at Launceston and
Longford, but he will accept of neither, and
prefers living at the Moat. Cox has never
been a teetotaller, nor studied his health in
the least, but he has never had an hour's
sickness. Some people doubt the correct
ness of his assertion about his age, but no
one has yet been able to say how old he
really is except himself, and many people
can recollect Mm knocking about for 50
years, and who say he was an old man when
they first knew him, and that he has altered
very little since. . . ,
To Singaporeans few forms among the
the European residents of the island are
more familiar than that of the Chinese pro
tector, Mr. W. A. Pickering, who has late
ly suffered from a murderous assault. The
Straits Times of July 20 says : — ' A des
perate attempt on the life of our respected
Protector of Chinese, Mr. Pickering, was
made about 11.15 a.m. on the 18th inst. by
a Tiochow carpenter. Mr. Pickering, at
the time, was engaged in. examining a
number of newly-arrived female Chinese
immigrants, when the would-be murderer
was seen to advance to the desk and throw
the head of an axe straight at him. The
poll of the axe struck him in the centre of
the forehead, -inflicting an ugly wound,
though fortunately not a fatal one. The
man was immediately seized, but he
proved so violent that it took six per
sons to bind his arms. At ' present it is
difficult to say what motive induced him to
attempt the crime; we are sure, that our
readers will sympathise with Mr. Picker
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