AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2906, 28 February 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

« (i)\ Ia.LCTKIC TKLK.UUAI'II. - CuI'VKHUIT. MEI.HKVIiXE, Febneiry '2~i. A. WW KIi.VXT Ims boon issued for the arrest of Pound, metallurgist, un a charge ot' stealing platinum. valued ;it i'liOOit, belonging to tin: Otwuy Puiugos Platinum Company. The revelations concerning this company are the sensation of the -week. It was started about, 1.3 months ago, and consequent on a reuorl by Pound, tho shares, which were originally worth 15s rose at a bound to .t'W, Mr Cosmo Newberry, the Government analyst, subseqently tested the ore. nnd failed to iind a trace of platinum, upon which Pound instituted a libel action against him. Wilson, who murdered his sweetheart by cutting her throat has been sentenced to death. I'ebruary 27. The Minors' Conference lias decided to make a levy of sixpence per member in aid of llm Di'imisfrm miners, and tho Executive was empowered to make any further levies necessary. A unanimous vote of sympathy with the distressed was carried. Several physicians consider that Dr. o'llar.is' typhoid cure is nothing more nor less than brewers' yeast, and they state that the latter growiiur in its own pet malt, will cat out baccilli, but teere is no reasonable inference that it will do so in intestinal portions of the body. Svjakv. February L'j, Sit 11. Atkinson, and Captain l\ussell, the New Zealand delegatus to the Federal Convention have arrived here. February i'!i, Alinghaiu. another officer of the English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered liank, has boon arrested for embezzlement. The defalcations are about, £3500. The Postal Conference was opened today, under the presidency of Mr O'Connor, Postmaster-General of New South Wales. After passing a resolution expressive of regret at the death of Mr Bews, who was to have represented South Australia, the Conference adjourned until to-morrow to await the arrival of the Xew Zealand representatives.