Show BRIEF new orleans both bowan and meyer posted forfeit each today to day for a guarantee of their apnea appearance rance in the atea olympic to ring on may 19 sydney at yesterdays 0 d I 1 tho tile federation convention the delegates adopted the constitution bill and slid the demion closed amid a scene of groat enthusiasm washington ten tho the application of california for a refund of 0 the direct I 1 tax ax collect collected e d in that state amount amounting n 9 to was received at the tre treasury a department today to day richmond va lewia 1366 booker ker one 0 of I 1 the most prominent business men ol 01 richmond lUch mond and for many years treasurer of st pauls episcopal church was arrested charged with the embezzlement of from the as estate of which for many years he has been agent albany before the benato committee for the investigation of trusts today to day henry gray receiver of the north river refining company said he had been grossly abused by DY the sugar trust certain persons came to him tome tims ago with a MOSEA front an attorney for the trust to the effect that if gray wanted to make a profitable thins thing out of the re receivership he should see the officers ot of the truet trust and agree with them otherwise he would get got nothing the statement of the trust attorney that he gray had speculated in sugar was a lie 8 sydney d rey the federation convention tio n yb has a adopted resolutions hat that the federal parliament ball shall fix and control customs and that the present tariff shall remain unchanged pending he ilia adoption ofa of a uniform tariff with r ith free trade throughout the federation the proposal to define the consolidation soli olida dation ti on of the public debt on the basis at of xao 9 per head lead ol 01 population was s re rejected i acted and it was decided to I 1 leave t that hat matter to be dealt with by the parliament the local powers of the colonial parliament have not bee been 1 touched bat but there is a proviso that in n the event of the laws clashing lashing the federal parliament shall C prevail |