CALOGRAMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIII, Issue 4282, 21 September 1882, Page 2

CALOGRAMS.

[Rbtjteb's Special.]

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, Yesterday. It is stated that the Hon. John Lackey ! has resigned his portfolio ns Minister of i Public Works, and it is rumored that a break-up of the Cabinet is likely to follow, Sir Henry Parkcs retiring from the posU tion of Premier. O'Parrell, who attempted to assassinate Archbishop Gould by shooting him with a revolver on the 20th ult, and who was committed for trial on the 2nd inst., was ' brought up at the Supreme Court to-day, and was found guilty on a charge of unlawfully wounding, and sentenced to two years' imprisonment in Melbourne gaol.

[Special to Auckland Star.] London, September 19. When the Asia foundered in Lake Ontario, the passengers Jand crew took to the boats, but these were so over* crammed that they speedily swamped,

and only one man and one woman; saved. The Marquis of Lome v;a.g'' warned, prior -to his embarkation -m H.M.S. Comus at San Francis.co, that a flat iorpedo. was on boap^'to explode during f'mK^oyage Columbia. A thofouglT"scareh was made, but nothing was discovered. Hanlan refuses to row Wallace Eoss before June next. The cotton crop in America is said to be 40 per cent, belovr the usual average. The City of Glasgow Bank liquidators have now paid all the creditors in full, with the exception of the Scottish banks, and there is a probability of there beinp a substantial surplus.