AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume II, Issue 283, 6 April 1889, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

“ GIVING THEM JAM.” Monty Brown, the well-known theatrical manager, was brought up at the Water Police Court, Sydney, charged with having assaulted Wm. S. Balfour, Matilda Balfour, 0. A. Harding, and Annie Harding. Monty Brown had acted as manager at the Bondi Aquarium. Accompanied by his wife he wont to the aquarium to witness the entertainment. Because of some supposed insult offered aftij their arrival to his wife by some per* sou in the manager’s office he went there to remonstrate, but the door was slammed in his face. Enraged at this he went to the refreshment room and made an extensive purchase of jam tarts, custards, and confectionary, and returning to the manager’s room he threw the tarts through the open window at the complainants, who were inside. Fines were imposed upon Brown amounting altogether to £l3. AN INTEBESTING CASE. A case of public importance came up in the Equity Court, Sydney, last week. It was that of Albion v. Bignold. The motion was one to continue an interim injunction previously granted by the Court to restrain the defendant from dealing with certain moneys alleged to be partnership funds, and exercising the power of sale under a deed of assignment. The parties are the leesees of Her Majesty’s Theatre. The partnership between them was entered into on the 20th March, 1883, ond was continued with certain intermissions up to March this year. Differences seem to have then arisen between them, and defendant suddenly called upon the plaintiff to hand over an amount of £240 10s, said to be due under a deed of assignment, and threatening, if the money was not paid forthwith, to avail himself of his right of sale conferred by the mortgage. A week later the defendant, who advertised himself as sole leesee of the theatre, advertised his intention to offer for public auction the right, title, and interest of the plaintiff In the lease. Mr Justice Owen suggested that a receiver of the estate should be appointed, and mentioned Mr Eignold as the proper person to fill such a position. His Honor granted an injunction restraining the ialf? A BIG BLAKE. At 10 minutes past 3 o’clock on the 22nd of March the occupants of the roffee palace in Hindley-street, Adelaide, were alarmed by a cry of fire. It proved to be so sudden an outbreak that the inmates had hardly time to seek shelter in an adjourning stable before the whole of the upper story was in a blaze. Owing to the timely action of the firemen the flames were confined to the Coffee Palace. A dozen people were sleeping in the building, including the Bev. F. W. Taplin, of Point Mackey aboriginal mission station. He was one of the first to be alarmed by the policeman’s whistle, and he got out of the building, but he went back again to arouse a young lady, a school teacher, who was sleeping on the premises, and was never seen alive again. A man named King fell off a low part of the building on to the kerbing on his spine, and was taken to the hospital. LIVED TOO LONG. Arthur Coulton, who was sentenced by Judge Foster at the last Tam worth (N.8.W.) Circuit Court to two years and ten months* imprisonment for killing Patrick Kienhan, his stepfather, at Moor Creek, died in gaol. He had been in failing health for some time before the crime was committed. A LITTLE or WHAT HE DESERVED. Mr Justice Williams passed sentence in the Melbourne Criminal Court on a young man named Frederick Radford, a herbalist, who had been convicted on a charge of selling noxious drugs for an unlawful purpose. The drugs had been sold to Detective Constable Burrot, who made certain representations to the prisoner as to the object for which he required the drugs. His Honor said that the prisoner had been guilty of carrying on a horrible and disgusting trade, one fraught with injury to human life. It was true that the drugs were not used on anyone, but that did not lessen the prisoner’s crime, as he intended that the drugs should be used. Bis Honor imposed on the prisoner the full penalty that the law allowed, namely three years’ imprisonment.

BEPORTEp CASE OF LEPROSY. A report having reached the Enfield police that a case of small-pox had been discovered at Enfield, they Visited the place, and found a Chinaman, whose body presented a strange appearance. The matter was reported to the authorities. Information was sent to the Board of Health, who to ba removed to Little Bay Hospital by the ambulance owns. It is believed that the man is suffering from leprosy.