AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XX, Issue 6636, 28 March 1893, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

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MELBOURNE, March 27,

Duiker, liquidator of the Mercantile Bank, deposed at the trial of directors thai on balancing day £0000 was paid in to satisfy the auditors and taken out again when they had finished their work. In February last year, hi addition to tha solicitors and auditors, ten officials of the Bank had overdrafts.

At a spot-barred billiard tournament, Weiss with an unfinished break cf 203 made the spot-barred record for Australia.

Tha Union Company's Rotomahana made the fastest trip on record from Sydney, the time from wharf to wharf being 35 hours 48

minutes

SYDNEY, March 27,

The Wooloomooloo tragedy is creating a sensation owing to its mysterious nature. The woman, who bore a very respectable character, was employed a3 a dressmaker in a leading firm. She was alono in the house at the time the crime was committed. Although a desperate struggle took place, rendering it .hardly possible that the assailant should not bear marks of it, the prisoner Jeater shows no traces of being engaged in one. Mar. 28. — Archer, son iu-law of the occupants of the house which Miss Harrison, the victim of the Wooloomooloo outrage, resided, has been arrested on the capital charge, there being strong presumptive evidence against him. Jeater, tho young woman's intended, has been released.

An immense landslip occurred near Singleton, upon the scene of the recent iloods. The greater portion of the mountain slipped bodily itito the creek, damming the water back to a depth of one hundred feet.

BRISBANE, March 27. Mr G. B Forrest has accepted the position of Agent -General.

ADELAIDE, Matioii 28.

The Colonial Treasurer expects that the deficit at the end of June will amount to £o'o, ooo.