AUSTRALIA

Waikato Times, Volume I, Issue 2, 4 May 1872, Page 2

AUSTRALIA

I MELBOURNE.. AprlTS*:. The Parliament mee(s on the ifOlh inst. The advocates of the Permissive Bill ato agitating the subjectThe trial of the Rev. Mr. Abraham and his wife for cruelty to a child servant, has resulted in a- verdict tantamount to '* not proven." There is great dissatisfaction ih consequence. " Mrs. Davi* has been found guilby. of attempting to poison her husband. Sentence is defened, pending (he consideration of a point of law reserved. Street, her paramour, is now under trial as accessory. Dickie is indicted for the murder of If any Pensam at DaylesfoixL He is under trial at Gastlemaine. and there is little doubt of his conviction. Took ev shares, £5 10s.; holders asking , £5 15s. " . , . • . Flour, £15 to £15 10s. Wheat, Cs. 6d. to 9s. 9d. : ■ v Arrived : "Wave avid Zephyr, from Hokitika; Macquarie, from New Zealand. Sailed: Maggie, fur Lyttelton ; Florence, for Wan.gapui. Passed the Q.tway: 11.M.5. Clio, for Sydney SYDNEY. ■■" ' jNlore gold has bcon discovered.A forty-eighth interest in Patau's Claim was sold fjr £J7ODV There is a report of the wreck of the Queen of the East, bound from California for Newcastle, on an uuknbwn reef. The captain and crew reached Clarence Heads in. safety. , - Flour market firm ; closed 10s. dearer. The Newcastle ■shipowners are taking active steps for the abolition of towage, duties. ADEDATDE. A message has been received through from Daley Springs, the north-easternmost station from Darwin. . ; The work is proceeding favourably. . HOB ART TOWN. Wheat firm at ss. 9d. Prjceof Sheep.—Messrs Owen and Lcthbridgo recently purchased 200 ewes from the , famous flock of Messrs; Alexander' and Peat, Kai Iwi, at 265. each^—a figure whicli was considered ln'gh, and accepted as an augury of good times to sKeepowriere generally. A few days ago (says the " Wanganni Chronicle," these gentlemen sold the half of their purchase at a rise of 4s. a head—l,ooo ewes at 30s. each—to Mr. Williams, of Taita, in the Hntt, indicating that our friends: knew what they were about when they closed the first bargain. Mr. Williams took away an instalment of his 1,000 sheep by the B.s. ".Wanganui," on the 14th March. A. farmer wrote as follows to a clistiaguished scientific agriculturalist to whom he felt under obligations for introducing a variety of swine:—"Respected sir : " T went yesterday to the cattle show. L went yesterday to the cattle-show. X found several pigs of your species. There was a great variety of hogs, and I was astonished at not seeing you tliere." Pekin possesses a newspaper said to be a thousand years old. It is printed on silk.