AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7342, 1 June 1885, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

i [EEOTEB'S MLBGEAM.J , || ' ■ r■ - . .. .. ■ • CHARGE OF ROBBING A BANK. 1 / '/M Melbourne, May 30. v ■$$ The prisoners Alexander Ross and Milne Smith, who were recently £ * arrested on a charge of being concerned ' in an extensive robbery from the Lon- 3 don Chartered Bank at Horsham in %, March, 1884, were examined yesterday, ,;*M and were remanded for further evi- Ag dence. * ' : ■ ———— agrjlgj • VICTORIAN STATUE TO GENER L . Si - gord N. . • • • •. Melbourne, May 31. - V}| A large and enthusiastic meeting ' ; ;; ! was held in the Town Hall last night to institute a movement for the erec- > -7% tion of a statue to the late General '/'j Gordon. A resolution was unani- • - V;* mously adopted approving of the pro- : ject, and a large number of subscrip-• jc# tions were promised among those present, who numbered fully 4000. Mfff SYDNEY MARKETS. ' Sydney, May 30. •' • '; ffa New Zealand wheat, 2s 8d par |g| bushel; oats, 2s 3d ; maize, 3s ; Sugar /<_. Company's No. 1 pieces, £26. >/_ THE TARAWERA. s ' j Sydney, May 30. The s.s. Tarawera left Sydney for Auckland on the evening of the 28th. ' -jj NEW ZEALAND TELEGRAMS. s|ll '• ;% ■ -• . " - . [PRESS ASSOCIATION.] ' ' -|f GISBORNE, Sunday. Mb. John Thomson, of New Plymouth, fcia 1| been appointed Harbour Engineer rJ, £808 y«<jjj a year. ' > .. WELLINGTON, Saturday. • £, The local Woollen Company are about to jig commence erecting their factory buildings. . s - ' '#{ [MARTON, Saturday. ,-, 1 Mr. Riley, an undertaker at Bulla, died s ;.SM this morning through inhaling the effluvia .-"y-Sjt from the corpse of a Parawanui chief— Kawana Huniawhile placing jt in. the ~ coffin last Tuesday. " , , :;i\f DUjNEDIN, Saturday, M Andrew Dalgiel, one of the original Otago < settlers, died yesterday, aged 80. •; gfl At the City Court, Sydney Knight was. , •' V M sentenced to two months' hard labour for assaulting Chinese. The evidence disoloaed , V Y^ a shocking state of immorality—prisoner; ; £ obliging his wife to live with Chinese. He ; fgfj is well connected in England, and is under- . , '0M stood to be a "remittance man." . Hi» --f children appeared in Court yesterday charged with theft. ; /,t . . Sunday. • A John Aitken, settler at Woodside, was . ' .4 found dead on his farm yesterday morning. §g A man named Stanley, who was injured * - v, by falling from the roof of the City Hotel , ,Csi yesterday, died at the hospital this morning. >,*,! D. R. Hay has accepted a challenge from 'J the Canterbury club to play a chess match % by telegraph between teams of . eight or ten ; , • s||| a-side. " . INVERCARGILU f-aturday. - :•$$ A Lacrosse Club has been wormed here with a strong membership. The lacrosse - arrived from Melbourne to-day, and on - ->U| Saturday next the opening match will bo /fiw played. This is the only club of the kind in ~£sjm the Middle Island. » * • " : ;1