AUSTRALIAN. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.]

Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1683, 19 April 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN. [BY TELEGRAPH- COPYRIGHT.]

[retjter's telegrams.] Sydney, April 18. The annual report of the Australian Mutual Provident Society, for the last year, shows that the new business was larger than that of any previous year. It comprised G-100 policies foi assu unices, amounting to .£2, 280,0 00. The new premiums amounted to i' 92,500. The accumulated fund has been increased by £520,000, and now stands at 1:4,350,000. The total annual revenue is now £585,000. The receipts from interest exceed the amounts paid for death claims hy £68,000. The seventh quimjiiemii.il division of the biirplus will bo m.ulo up to the end of the year, and heteafter the profits Mill be divided annually.

Mklboukxe, Apnl 17. The Colonial Bank of Austiaha at Biunswick, 2\ miles from the city, was robbed to-day of £GOO. The theft was committed dm ing office hours. The manager was momentaiily absent, and upon his return found that the drawer had broil unlocked and the money abstracted. It is believed that the thief is a youth, but he has not, up to the piesent time, been arrested. Am veil, this morning : The F. and 0. Company's steamship Eosetta, with the inward mails via Suez and Brindisi, dated London, March 9 Sailed, this afternoon ; The Union Company's steamship Taiaweia, for the Bluff. The death is announced of H. F. Gurner, Crown Solicitor, from apoplexy.

Launci'stox, Apiil 17. It is reported that further attacks have been made upon settlers in the neighbourhood of Epping Forest, but the statements requite confirmation. The details which have transpired during the trial of tho youths Ogden and D.ivis for the murders committed last week fully confirm the statements rcgnulnig the atrocities with which the coldblooded crimes >\ere committed.

[Received April 18, 1.30 p in.] M M,])OPR\E, Yesterday. Further particulars leg.irding the robbciy at tlio Colonial Biink, Biunswick, show th.it the sum of £71.1 was stolen, not £000 as at fiist supposed. The manager of the branch has been suspended, pending cnquity into the affair. The Tarawera, which left yesterday for the Bluff, took on board at the Heads the English mails brought by the P. and 0. steamship liusetta.

Laitn'oeston, Yesterday. No confirmation has been obtained of the lcporfc current yesteiday of fuithcr outrages in Enpint' Forest.

Adelaide, April 17. Arrived, this morning : The Oiient Comp-my's steamship Orient (from Plymouth on March 10).