AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2925, 14 April 1891, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(BV Er.ECTRIO TELKfJRAI'II —C'01'VBI(;llT.) Sydney. Ai>ril 10. The Government, in order to _ avoid going on the London market in the present statoof tlio money market, aru borrowing wlmt they require from tin; N(!\v South Wales Savings Bank at 4 pur cent. At. the Supremo Court to-day J-inid-ley, latn manager of the Devonshirestreet brunch of the English and .Scottish Chartered Bunk, was sentenced to six years' penal servitude for embezzlement, and Bruce, another bank einkjzzler, received five years. April, 13. Baron Von Pilsaot has arrived here en route for Samoa, where he is to occupy the position of President of the Municipal Council to which he was appointed by Germany, England, and America. Rich dovelopements of carbonate ero have been found in the boutli Broken Hills mine. Mei.moit.xk, April 11. James Johnston, commission agent, Ballarat. who murdered his wife and four children in December last, lias been convicted on tlio capital charge, pud sentenced to death. A man has arrived here <;n route to Auckland who was successfully treated with I>r Koch's tuberculine, at the Glasgow Hospital, when in the last stage ot consumption. April, i:;. Tin: ex-New Zealand residents in Melbourne warmly welcomed Sir George Grey on his arrivitl in tlio city, and presented him with an illuminated address. A communication has been received from the Secretary of the late Paris exhibition intimating that the winners of medals cauobtmn the sumo on payment of 2R francs for silver ones, nnd 00(1 francs for gold. AiiiH.AinE, April 11. The wheat shortage in South Australia, and Victoria is :><)0,00<) tons more than .-it first estimated. Sellers' quotations arc nominally-Is !»d ; buyers offer Is id. JtoiiAisT, April 11. An important discovery of gold is reported from tlw West Coast. An assay made Ims given very satisfactory results, but no further details are jot to hand.