AUSTRALIAN.

Inangahua Times, Volume XVI, Issue 20225, 17 April 1891, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

BY ELECTRIC&ee|tiR£PH -COPYRIGHT Unithd Pbbs& l Association. JieceivedlS, at 12.80 a.m. __ Solomon, ; 'proprietor of the tobacconißt shop which was raided by the police recently, was fined £250, or in default six months 'imprisonment for being the keeper of a gaming house. Three other penons were fined noniinal amounts and the charges against the others were dismissed. Government accepted the tender of a lo^al firm at £300,000 for the manufacture of locomotives. On her arrival here the P. &0. Company's Britain was quarantined owing to there being chicken pox on board. Melbourne, 15. Sailed: Te Anau for Bluff. Chief Justice Higginbotham denies that be is the author of au article which was attributed to him on " Greater Britain " and referred to in tlie London cables. He says that the ai tide was baaed on private corres* pondence. BHIBBA.NB, 15 During the trial of a Unionist at Charlviile, considerable sensation wa* caused by the production of important documents proving his couneotion with the other prisoners. The faensation waa intensified by the floor of the court house collapsing. No oue was injured. '; Four French escapees arrived at Thursday Island in canoes, but they were captured as soon as they landed. ■ Newcastle, 15 Arrived: Waieka, from Kaipara. Sailed : Camille, for Auckland. Received 16th. at 12.80 a.m. Sydney, 16. A man named Dalton wan arrested on a charge of murdering his wife yes* tferduy. . • s -^'-^j-..-_ »;v*%^- '■■'■ ■ '. -'*. : > H r '"' : "-- "■■^■7^;^'"-' i;: 'MtM»w, is.-"'! Thu 'yield of gold for the'quartcr | waa 13§,0000^9i i)eing"-a • decrease^ oi-j 17.000. _ '; . : . , Bbisbank, 16. Shearers threaten the railway linemen's wives that if they don't subscribe to assist unionists their houses will.be burued down. A fatal affray occurred at Balcaldine Downs between two free laborers. One iitimt'ti McLood seized a bayonet from an armed guard and stabbed another nann^d nyan dead.