VICTORIA.

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VICTORIA.

On* of the witnesses at the inquest on the body of Miss Swain, who threw her■elf off the bridge into the Yarra, said that when he heard a perßon had committed suicide he enqaired about It, as he hoped It might refer to himself, and when •iked what he meant by this, he explained that he thought it might refer to his wife, who was carrying on a loose game. The foreman of the jury : "At soon as you discovered it was not yonr wife, you did not trouble anybody V Witness : "That 1b about the troth of !♦," (Laughter.) Witneu : " Jt'a no laughing matter." A fine of £1000 was inflicted on James Kelly, convicted at the August sittings of the Criminal sittings of defrauding the Customs. The accused the manager for Sohuhkraffs and Co., of Flinders street, and la a man of about sixty-five years of age. Evldenoe was'glven as to hia character, and medical testimony was also adduced to the effect that if he were imprisoned for any term, hla health had thready been broken up to euch an extent that it would either kill him or drive him to iasanity. Justice Kerferd then disected him to p»y the fina of £ICO on etoh of the ten counts on whioh be had been convloted. A cheque for the amount waa at once forthcoming, and having been cashed, the accused was discharged. Two of the navvies engaged on the con •traction of the railway between Dunolly and Ingle wood, while excavating near the aprfa.ee, found a nugget valued at £1014 At the Police Court at Albury, George Russell Thursby, who arrived at a hotel m woman's aitire, was charged with personating a detective, and was fined £5. Thirsby was then charge 1 with being Identical with Arthur Foster, wanted by the London police for forgery to the extent of £50C0, committed m November 1886. The prisoner, who said his wife was an act'OU m Sydney, strongly protested his innocence, and wes remanded.