AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2476, 24 May 1888, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[By EIKCTUIC TiaKGKAi'll— CoPYKIfiIIT.I Sydney, May 22. Tub Daily Telegraph, iu publishing Professor Brown's paper read at the Otago Institute on the wealth and resources of New Zealand, says that whatever outward aspcct the colony may present, the productions and interests of New Zealand will stmd the strictest scrutiny. • The bad management of the finances of the colony cannot lessen the resources of the colony, which must go on producing, while the wealth at present in stagnation is accumulating, thus producing a genuine state of prosperity and rest, which will be more lasting than that produced from the expenditure of borrowed money from abroad.

The Professional Board of the Senate of tiio University have reported against the abolition of the matriculation examination recommended by Professor Liversidge. The City Council propose to apply to the Government for permission to raise a large loan for the purpose of widening and otherwise improving the main streets of the city. May 23. Tlui French Consul here lias supplied an official account of the French annexation of Raiatia, Huahiuc, Borabane and Tahao, in the Society Group. Two thousand five hundred firemen representing the whole of the colonies commenced a four days' carnival to-day. A successful trial was made to-day of tiie electric tram ear. Mjjlhouunk, May 22. Particulars of thu lnglewood tragedy show that it was the result of a quarrel. Dillon lias beeu committed for trial on a charge of manslaughter. The death is announced of the Hon. A, T. Clarke. May 23, Mr Service has been elected to represent the province of Melbourne in the Legislative Council, vice Dr. Hearu, deceased.

Edwards, the theatrical agent who fired ;it a man named Dean on the Ist inst. in a lit of jealousy, has been acquitted. Michael O'Sliea has been sentenced to death for the murder of his sou at Yabbayabba.