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Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2790, 31 May 1890, Page 2

♦ (by electric telegraph.—copyright.) Melbourne, May 20. In connection with the charges made against certain persons connected with the Premier Permanent Building Society, the liquidator appointed to wind up the concern states that the accounts had been unduly inflated so as to deceivs the public, and that a sum of £20,000 had apparently completely vanished. May 30. Arrived : The Te Anau, from the Bluff. During the YVant-of-Confidimce debate in the Assembly, Captain Taylor, moved, as a further amendment, that the expenditure of the colony has been unduly increased, owing to the misleading financial statement of last session, and that the Government failed to provide a remedy for the present mismanagement of railways. Mr Munro has withdrawn his amendment in favour of the above. Sydney, May 29. At Newcastle to day u small harbour steamer, with 800 bags of produce on board, which had been lightered from the s s. Manapouri, capsized and sank. The mail train to Bourke was derailed to-day at Glenariff, and was almost completely wrecked. Four passengers were seriously injured, and many others severely shaken. May 30. Saiied : Manapouri for Auckland, Star of England lor Bluff. Dr. McLeod has been found guilty of the charge of bigamy. Sentence was reserved, pendingarguinenton certain points. H.M.S. Royalist has arrived at Noumea with several traders who were concerned in kidnapping in the New Hebrides on board. While negotiating the Mallicola passage, the Royalist ran on a reef, where she remained for about four hours. The Daily Telegraph, in au article on the Swiss Referendum, suggests that the system should be tried as a means of ascertaining the views of the people on the Federation question, Adelaide, May 20. The Earl of Kiutore, Governor of South Australia, has cabled tho resolutions arrived at by the Postal Conference to the Imperial Government, with a request that they should assist iu paying the subsidies and guarantees required for the reductiou of cable rates.