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Evening Star, Issue 3728, 3 February 1875, Page 3

At the \ery time when Melbourne and generally were suffering the most intense heat under a burning sun and scorching hot winds, Brisbane was inundated by a very heavy rainfall, which did a considerable amount of damage. A painful cave came under the notice of the Melbourne Gity Beach very lately. A young and rather prepossessing woman named Ehzabeth Lyons was charged with having repeatedly threatened to taka the life of her husband, John Lyons, a hard-working, respectable tradesman. Lyons stated that he had only been married to his wife about nine months, and that during that time she hud given li.rsel, almost continually t® drinking. She bad run at him three times with, a knife iu her hj vnd, and threatened to take his I no. she had also repeatedly :ho. atoned. to bum the house down. The husband said she was res and he would like her ; . e ,; days tor medical impair, I he • he would not in the meant in. • bud 'h , The Bench ordered her to li.M ... sm ;y , , L2O to be of good behaviour ior one ',,