AUSTRALIAN NEWS
|By Electric Telegraph.— Copyright.] Sydney, June 5. McGregor, the forger, has been sentenced to seven years hard labour. The question of establishing an ammunition factory in Sydney, which several local and English capitalists are prepared to do, is engaging the attention of the Government. The Finance Committee of the City Council have resolved to recommend the Council to ask the Government to introduce a Bill empowering the Council to borrow £1,704,0.00 for the purpose of paving the streets with wood, and a similar sum with which to purchase properties for the improvement aud widening of the streets.
During a heavy gale the barque Berbice, from Melbourne, went ashore outside Newcastle harbour early in the morning, and became a total wreck, but the crew were rescued by the rocket brigade. Sir John Douglas' annual report on New Guinea has been received. It was impossible to apply British law in a technical sense to native affairs, and for many years to come a personal form of government must prevail to a great extent.
At the inquest on the body of Parkes, victim of the outrage in a cell, a verdict of murder against Hewitt, who committed the offence, was returned. Sydney, June 6. The Supreme Court case Hall versus Railway Commissioner has been compromised. The claim was for £30,000 for breaches of contract in connection with the Gleu Junes Tendcrfield Railway. Plaintiff received £5000. Meluourxe, June 0. The Anti-vivisection Society have, through the Agent General, warned the Government against the introduction of M. Pasteur's disease into the colony, on the ground that it would be fatal to birds, and that wholesale slaughter of rabbits is inimical to the health of human beings from the putrifyiug of rabbits killed by cholera. Bhisban'e, June 6. Abraham Street, a confidential clerk in the employ of Messrs Burnett and Co., a well-known drapery firm, who was arrested for embezzlement, has been sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. Flis defalcations amounted to £10,000, and he has almost ruined his late employers. _____^______
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Waikato Times, Volume XXX, Issue 2482, 7 June 1888, Page 2
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