LATE CABLES.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 247, 17 March 1888, Page 3

LATE CABLES.

Sydney, March 15. The special audit of the Corporation books, undertaken at the instance of the Mayor, has disclosed the astouuding fact that the sum of has been embezzled from the city funds. All the books and accounts, covering the dates from January 1880 to June 1881, havo disappeared. Four officers in the Engineer's Department were expectei to be suspended this morning. The barque Cingalese from Wellington to London, was spoken in latitude 3 IS. longitude 2GW. in a dismasted condition. Escutcheon and Nelson came by the 5.6. Mararoa to-day. A bill to prevent the introduction of rabbit disease into the colony has passed all stages in the House. Silver shares are quiet except those in Broken Hill proprietary mine, which. firmly hold at about £400. New companies are being floated and fresh discoveries are being made daily, particularly in the Tuena and Orange districts. Amongst the discoveries are said to be some valuable deposits of tin. Melbourne, March 15. An attempt was made by the Harbour Board to impose an export wharfage rate to recoup the Board far its heavy outlay- on improvements, which exceeds three quarters of a million sterling. The Chairman of the Board, however, ruled the motion out of order, on the ground that it was opposed to the fiscal policy of the colony.