SYDNEY.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1989, 20 May 1875, Page 2

SYDNEY.

May-30. ; ■R*. F. Stubbs and Co. have failed. The direct liabilities are £100,000. A

Mr Barlow, wholesale grocer, and Mr Cohen, ironmonger, have called meetings of their creditors. The liabilities of the former are £28,0C0; assets, £18,000. Mr Cohen's liabilities are £18,0C0; assets, £9,000. A large influential meeting was held on the 11th in favor of the annexation of New Guioea by the Imperial Government. . i • The Herald's Cooktown correspondent attributes the rush of Chinese to the representations of Canton and Hong Kong merchants. The Queensland Government proposes to raise a loan of a million and a-half for railways and public works. The Philadelphia ■. Commission have determined on the representation of the celony at the Melbourne Exhibition. The Governor attended the. Maitland races, the cup at which was won by Kingston. . Numerous burglaries in the suburbs are causing uneasiness. The Assembly is discussing the Land Bill. ,

A verdict of wilful murder ha 3 been returned in_ the case of the body of a child found in the bay. Murphy, charged with the murder of his wife by poison at Shoalhaven and acquitted, bas been re-arre?ted. Adelaide wheat, 4s 4d to 4s sd. The Hero arrived from Auckland on the 10th. The Attorney-General. decided thai Volunteers were not entitled to a second land order. The Postmaster-General has received a telegram that the Sydney mail bag was saved in the wreck of the Schiller.