VICTORIA.

Evening Star, Volume IX, Issue 2682, 21 September 1871, Page 3

VICTORIA.

The salary of the Mayor of Melbourne this year has been fixed at LIOOO. The narrow guage has triumphed in Victoria. The Victorian Ministry has finally resolved that in all future railway construction to adopt a 3 feet (i inch guage. The way petitions arc got up. In a permissive bill petition recently presented to the Victorian Parliament were found 200 signatures by one person. The shop of a jeweller, named Spann, in Elizabeth street, Melbourne, was entered by thieves on the 7th, and diamonds of the value of L3OO stolen. The thieves have not been captured. The Fairlic locomotive engine is to have a liialiu Victoria, 'ihe Government has or-

dererl, through Mr Fairlie’s in Melbourne, a powerful double nogic-engine, adapted for railways of sft. 3in guago. Mr Anthony Trollope, in a speech at Kochampton the other day, deprecated the Colonial habit of discontent and complaint by Colonists, who are prospering beyond their wildest aspirations whenin the land of their nativity, A case of gross inhumanity has come to light in Melbourne. A girl name M'Gillivoray, in the employ of a Mr Plunkett, a schoolmaster, intimated to her mistress on August 23, that she was in the family w r ay ; and received assurances from her that she should be well treated. The girl was confined on the floor of the house on August 31, and Mrs Plunkett being sent for, she refused to have anything to do with it, or assist the girl in her labor. The child died soon after its birth. The jury returned a verdict, that Mrs Plunkett was guilty of manslaughter, on the ground that the child died from exposure and cold, .and from the unkindness with which it had been treated. The Lavistowski sisters have appeared in Melbourne, and met with a brilliant reception. Speaking of them, the An/us says—.Nature has helped them a good deal; a thorough training in the particular line of histrionic art they practise, has also helped them very much, and a perfect kind of dressing—from a burlesque point of view'— has also lent no inconsiderable assistance in producing the agreeable result. They are each eminently mercurial, and, what is still more difficult to achieve, they are graceful in repose. Speaking from a stage point of view, they know exactly how to catch the attention of the audience. They dance with extreme lightness, neatness, and finish, and they seem to have acquired just that degree of nimble-footedness which is entirely free from the boisterousness of motion. In short, they are exceedingly wellfitted for representations of that kind. ‘SEgles,” in the Au*trala*ian, no mean authority on matters theatrical, says they arc “agile, lithe, graceful, and bustling,” while, although one of the sisters is mother of the other two, the public would be puzzled to say which was which — a compliment of a very doubtful kind.