MELBOURNE.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1675, 2 July 1875, Page 2

MELBOURNE.

June 25th,

The first lecture by the Eev. Chas. Clark on the Tower of London i'after his return was attended l_y 3,500 people, and it had to be repeated getting __200 a night. Mr. Smyth bis agenit is arranging for his appearance at Ballara^. * , Mr Frank Stephen is about to send his lifeboat oh a trip to Sydney. "Leggat, an old sailor, and his sjon will proceed in her with a fortnight's provisions. A preliminary trial will be made to-morrow.-Letters froyh Kings Island state that efforts to raise/ the Blencathra are proceeding satisfactorily.! ■'■■•"-•" T- , Charge agaftust Jim Pong for murder was heard on rett?and. He pleaded not guilty. Mr. Johnsont analytical chemist, gave evidence that btfman bair and a blood stum with all the prop<f rties °^ uman blood had been found on the ? poker recovered from the (shaft. The poker \rd a ost DV rs Ben7elman on the night of hew husband's murder. Her child was again examined, but the evidence was conflicting adk contradictory. The prisoners Ah Cat and jAOuisa Kenzelman were present. The prisoner} Jim Pong was committed for trial at the asides. .J The Beech.vjof-h coach, between Yackan- • dandah and j-Wodonga, was capsized and carried a huf"*red yards down the creek.. The driver naF"roWly escaped drowing. The mails are lost.J[ M'Ewan's #state has been sequestrated. At a meeting* creditors the Colonial Bank made an offerfT *° Duy or se^ *ke estate at 6s. in the £. || Thomas Lvfike and Co., tea merchants, have called a Smeeting of tbeir creditors*. A butcher rffiamed David Glennon was fined £10 and five Jfeuineas costs for exposing diseased meat in Bp> public market. The Supreme* Court granted a rule nisi, calling on an atwtorney to show cause why ho should not be struck off the rolls for appropriating money feto his own uses. An advance mi 15s. has taken place on refined sugars, fe Mauritius advipfces state that large quantities of rain had «vfalien, and the cane on the sea-board estates m>romises to be much better. A labouring mariM, named Maurice Williams, residing at EmeraMd Hill, committed suicide through his inabilitw to work. He has a son at Queensland. x\ The tender of Mr. J&\mes M'Ewen has been accepted for the rails s&nd fastenings of the Deniliquin and Moarno l|railway for #41,000. Flour and wheat are Hl|rmer ; the latter is selling at 53. Childrey's%Vtobaccos, Is. to Is. 6£d.; maize, 4_. 7d. to 4_&& Bd. A young girl named M'Jnali&iy was drown.-? in the Hunter, at, Maitland. Whe,'oa y was recovered She was drawing fe %-*' . and slipped into the river. She rosef- tour tlmes > but no assistance could be given. t_