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NEWS IN BBIEJ?.
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Twenlty-seven rooms of Peters's Hotel
at Chrlstchuirehi were destroyed by fire
yesterday.
At a meeting at the Brisbane Town
hall yesterday, it was decided to inaugu
rate an Indian Fumiae Relief Fund,
The Premier informed one 0? our re
presentatives yesterday that ho had1 re
(oeived Irom His Excellency tJre Adminis
trator, for tlhe consideration of Ministers,
the separation petition to Her Majesty
fromi the people ou the Cbolgardie Gold
fields.
Mr. J. B;. Roe, the sherjff, 'has appom
steel an officer at t»h& Ro&bourne gaol as
'his deputy, and the arrangements for
-the execution of tine three- natives who
were sentenced to be banged1 for tihe
wiurdor of Dr. Yinea at Braeside Station
iwill be left in 'his hands.
The Townsville (Queensland) police
report that an extensive post-otiio& rob
bery occurred at Hughenden on Sunday.
T-ho articles which were- taken from a
safe included ia large quantity of jewel,
kry, a fixed deposit receipt for £5Q0,
cash amounting .to ii3t!8, and twenty re
gistered letters.
A special nie&ting of the shareholders
of the Fremantle Benefit Building and
Investment Society was held at tho
town-hall at the Port- last night, to elect
a director in the place 0$ the late Mr.
William Frederick Samson. Mr. D. K.
Congdon, M.L.C, pre&ided, Mr, K,
Solomon, M.L.A., was eleoted to the
position.
The present sittings of the Criminal
Court will probaibly last several' days
longer, but no sooner will the March list
have been cleared (than it will be neces
sary for one of tho judges to sit in crimi
nal jurisdiction again, for tho April list
— and there- is already a number of cases
set down for hearing— will have to be
taken, next Tuesday.
Mr. 6. H. Royce, the engineer in
oharge of the Fremantle' harbor workia,
who has occupied the position since the
departure of Mr. Macdonald1 from the
colony, has resigned his position, aud
has asked to bo relieved of his duties at
rlu- end of tho month. Mr. Royco has
accepted «n appointment in Queensland.
No arrangements have yet been made
as to his successor.
At the Karrakatta camp yesterday
the bushraen were engaged in mounted
drill. Up to the present the remount
committee has secured a goodi lot of
animals, which, though not all equal to
the last lot, are a most sen-iwable select
tion. Mr. 15. Darldt, through pressure
of private business, has been compelled
to resign from the committee,, but his
brother and Mr. Gillaaw will continue to
.malt© purchases. . ?
? Messrs. Keith and! Faorell, who have
for tihe past fortnight been prospecting
the raintry ibetween the Collie coal
fields and the Williams distract, witfo a
?view to mapping out a route forthe- pro
posed iin© of railway from, the Collie to
the Coolg'aa-die goidfields, returned to
?Penh yesterday. Both genUeown' in
terviewed the Premier yesterday after
noon. They will proceed to Ntorogin
(this -afternoon, and thence will continue
ithoir survey, it being 'their intention to
strike the neatest' point of tihe goldfiolcls
line, which will be edither Doodlekine or
Burracoppin.
In our report, la^b Gvening of uhoad
journed inquest on the late Mr.
Clmvles M'Artdiuv «vn unfortunate en'or
orept into the evidence given by
Ma1. John G. Seddiug, whdehi made a
negative answer given /by the witness
read as an affirmative r&piy. Mr. Sed
ding was niad» to say, in reply to a
question, that he had 'an' idea that the
deceased contemplated ssuicide, where
as what he did say was that he hadi 'no'
idea, etc. We regret veay much tho
mistake, and take the earliest opportu
nity of making the correction, in fair
ness to Ma*. Sedding, who naturally would
not like it to go forth that ho bad^nvade
such astatc-nienfc regarding an old! friend.
A. gentleman in a Pentih office, who
has reoently 'been 'promoted-' 'by being
sent to a branch, ottice in Kalgoorlio, is
not alitogothier enamored of the change,
though it did -mean an increase- in salary.
Writing to a Mend, ho says— -'I am still
in the same dusty hole. To-day is one
of the worst days I have e.ver strnek,
The diuat is so bad that I am obliged to
stay inaide all d«y. I might' menifcion
that you never get a bath up here. The
way we wash ourselves is in a baoin, with
about three eup3 of water in it. I had1
my first scrape this morning. It
was lovely! You could stand a fork
in the wwter after j ? it looked like a
b&autiful jelly. That's got to last until
nest Sunday, Once a°-ain in Perth,
the eeparationi'sts oan have all this on
thedrown,'
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