AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XXIII, Issue 7659, 18 June 1896, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Press Association— Eleotrle Telegraph —Oopyrlgh SYDNEY. June 17. - Kirby and Baaaett are passengers by the Waihora, which left for Auckland thia afternoon. , . . A fire thia morning destroyed two fourstoried buildings occupied by Jacobs and Co., clothing manufacturers (nob Wallace and Co., as first cabled), and Edwards, tea merchant. The brigade worked splendidly, - and prevented a great conflagration. As ib is, four hundred hands are thrown out of employment. The block in which the fire occurred was insured for £10,000, of which the New Zealand office has a line of £2000. Edwards' stock was insured for £1600 and Jacob's for £900, both in the New Zealand office. The origin oi the outbreak is not known. The Public Service Board has effected a saving in the Justice Department, computed at £40,000 per annum. June 18. — Over sixty officers retire from the Justice Department under the Public Service Board's scheme. Mr Fraser and several other prominent officials are among . ' the number. During a row in a Chinese gambling den in Goulbourn street a Chinaman was stabbed to death. . . . MELBOURNE, June 18.' - Mr Speight has decided nob to' proceed further in his appeal, to the Privy Council in the action against the Age. " • BRISBANE, Junb 17. Parliament was opened this afternoon. The Governor's speech was practically tha . same as the forecast sent. June 18.— Mr GlasseyJ has been elected ' leader of the Labor party in Parliament.