AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2466, 1 May 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

1 |BY ELECTRIC TeIEIJR.U'H.— COPYRIGHT. 1 Svusey, April 28. It is estimated that the population of Australia at tlie end of December waa 3,500,000. Buckley, a clerk engiged by the Official Assignee, has been arrested on a charge of embezzlement, anil it is alleged I that the defalcations amount to £1000. i Melbourne, April 28. 4. A sensational attempt at murder waa i made at Richmond, a suburb of the city, ■ list night. A young married woman ■ named Marehim, living apart from her ' husband, received a telegram brought by i cabman, requesting her to come \ as her mother was ill. She accomj panied the cabman to her mother's house, and while alighting, her husband, , who was in waiting, fired two shots with a revolver. One went through her cheek, i" the other lodged in her neck; She waa ■ taken to the hospital. The cabman made off, but has been secured. The telegram f was a bogus one. The husband, who had . previously threatened her life, has not f been captured. f The top story of Brook's furniture r warehouse, Collins-street, was gutted by i fire, and extensive damage has been douo. ' The premises were insured for £18,000. t A passenger by the Oroya has been ■' fined £2,i for smuggling, and all his jewellery forfeited. ' 105 of the Chinese by the Afghan are 1 for New Zealand. It transpires that 3 the naturalisation paper, held by a nutn- , ber were not originally issued to theui. Xoue have been allowed to land. Brisbane. April 28. i The schooner Friendship is believed to > be wrecked, with all hands, on the • northern coast. A quantity of wreckage, with the name of the vessel has been ~ found.