AUSTRALIAN NEWS
Melbourne, June 2. The fall in silver stocks has resulted in several stockbrokers in tiiia city stopping payment. Two others have disappeared, leaving large deficiencies. ■ June 4. The Budget this year: will show a surplus of £300,000, the Territorial Revenue Account showing an increase of £100,000. The Exhibition buildings are approach, inp completion. The total deficiency of the 'absconding shareholders is £30,000. The silver crisis involves another to the extent of £14,030, while several others are arranging with their creditors. A desperate struggle took place between two robbers and: some members of the police force early this morning. One constable was disabled by a stone, and one of the robbers, named Ryan, tired six times at his pursuers before he was captured. „ Brisbane, Juno 3. It is understood that the present Governor of British North Borneo will be selected as the first Governor of New Guinea. June 4. A black cooper, named Hobart, has been arrested for a brutal outrage on a woman near Roma. The body of a young woman named Flora Kartwright has been found at the bottom of a well at Charters Towers anda young man named Thomas Davidson, with whom she had been keeping company, has been arrested on a charge of murder. Sydney, June 4. The silver fitock taken up here la3t month would, if capitalised, amount to the sum of £2,031,000. Mr Thomas Strickland, a well-known merchant, was drowned in tlie harbour near Manly Beach yesterday, through a boat upsetting, Parks, the victim of the outrage in the police cells last week 13 dead. A quantity of wreckage and two casks of beef, branded E, and the sternsheets of a boat, made of kauri, and a Holmes' distress signal, were found on the.beach at Lord Howe Island on Bth May. The statement that Mr Garrett, Secretary for Lands, intends to resign is officially denied. Thomas O'Sullivan, another bushranger connected with the sticking up of Walyett hotel has been arrested. Pout Darw;n, June 4. A party of blacks attacked the Chinese camp .on the Roper River, one Chinaman being killed.
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2481, 5 June 1888, Page 2
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