Amongst them was the Sultan of Johore, who has been touring; Australia recently and was returning home with several purchases in the shape of thoroughbred race horses, which were stalled on the forward deck.
The Sultan's trip to Australia will hardly remain with bim as a pleasant memory. To begin with, on arrival, hie landing at Adelaide was blocked by a zealous" Custom-house official, on the ground that he was an undesirable immigrant within the meaning of the Alien Immigratiqan Act. This difficulty euro mounted, he proceeded to Melbourne, where he was summoned at the City Court on account of a supposed unpaid debt. of some few years' standing, in connection with a racchorse's pedigree. Counsel argued that the Court had no jurisdiction, and the case was dropped. And now as a final disaster comes this collision, and we take it the Sultan is unlikely to trouble Australia again whenever he jaunts abroad for a holiday.
The Death of Quong Tart.
Amongst the Chinese resident: of Sydney none was perhaps better known to the general public than Mr. Quong Tart, recently deceased. A newspaper man writing up a notice of Sydney's well-known Chinaman says:—Quong played many paris in his time; he was a great
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