crowd, killing ten. AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2431, 9 February 1888, Page 2

crowd, killing ten. AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

«, (Bv Euxruio Tklkcuaimi.—Oofvmuirr.) Sydney, February 7. Tin: resignation of the lion. ]3. R. Wise, Attorney-General in the Parkes' Govcrnmint, has been accepted. Mr Wise assigns as his reason for retiring from the Cabinet that lie has found that his otlieial duties interfered with his private practice. The Government intend to submit various railway proposals to the House this session. Parliament resumed to-day after the Centennial vacation. A meeting of the shareholders of the Poverty Bay Petroleum Comp'uy was held here to-day. Forty three tnousaud live hundred shares were represented, and it was unanimously resolved to float a compauy of shares, with a capital of £00,001), and 60,000 paid-up shares to 150 to the shareholders of the present company. Meliiouknk, February 7. Eleven thousand live hundred applications have been received from intending exhibitors a,t the Centennial Exhibition, the space required by them being 74,000 feet. It is authoritatively stated that the Government have 110 iutentiou of floating 1 a new loan at present. Adklaide, February 7. A warrant has been issued for the arrest of Joseph Clarke, paymaster of Imperial pensions in South Australia, on a charge of embez/.leineut. It is alleged that he induced pensioners to forward receipts, an:l then failed to send the money.