MELBOURFE.

Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1681, 8 July 1875, Page 2

MELBOURFE.

July 3. A fire took place last night in Elizabethstreet, at A Hard's produce store and Lincoln's clothing factory. The buildings were insured for £1900. Fears are expressed for the safety of the ship Crown Prince, which left London in January last, and of which nothing has been heard. • The Supreme Court declined to interfere on application to compel the Medical Board to register a Chinese doctor. At a meeting of the creditors of Thomas Luke and Co., the liabilities were shown to be £41,713, and the assets £36,038 ; a committee was appointed to report on their estate on Tuesday. Unseemly ptoceedings took place in the Assembly, caused by the conduct of Mr McKean towards other members. He was frequently called to order by the Speaker. The Eev Mr Clark has been requested to lecture on behalf of the Tichborne claimant, and promised the use of some fresh documents, but he has declined. All hopes have been abandoned of saving the Blencathra. Two clothing manufacturers have been fined 10 each, with costs, for a breach of the Factories Act, in defective ventilation. The wreck of the British Admiral was sold for £70. The Eiver Murray is still rising at Echuca ; ail the flats for miles rounds are covered, and people are making preparations to escape. The creditors in ME wen's estate agreed that the bank be paid 6s. on their claim, and the estate be afterwards wound up on behalf of the other creditors. Measles have broken out all over the town of Wallabadah, and there are only five children in attendance at the public school. Tbe full Court sustained the conviction of O'Ferral, and upheld the sentence of nine years' imprisonment. Sir George Bowen leaves England for Victoria on August 3 and is expected to arrive on October 16. The steamer St Osyth arrived on Sunday morning after a passage of actual steaming under forty-three days—the fastest on record.; her actual time occupied under forty-five days. " She left Plymouth at midnight on the 12th'May, and was twentyseven hours at St Vincent. She has 300 ■passengers and a full cargo for Melbourne and Sydney. A child fell from a window to-day twenty feef, and sustained fracture of the skull. The mail news states that Admiral Rowley Lambert is to have command of the flying squad ion, vice Admiral Randolph.