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Evening Star, Issue 3807, 7 May 1875, Page 3

When they make an oyster beds do they use a seaweed m&ttrass ? The ‘ Clunes Guardian’ jhas been informed that a gentleman who recently applied for the situation of tutor in a farmer s family at Charlotte Plains, was offered 10s a-week, and informed that his duties would include milking the cows ! The terms were not congenial. King Kalakau thus expresses his opinion of American women, after his recent tour through the United States “I think they are handsome, bold, and forward : why I actually received letters from ladies in New Vork, Washington, and Boston, plainly proposing marriage. lam a bachelor; but when 1 want to marry a woman I will ask her. I do not like to have women propose. It is, in my opinion, wrong.” A very determined case of suicide occurred at Booroondara, near Melbourne, A Dane, named Henery Anderson, while drunk, at* tempted to criminally assault his step daughter, a girl of sixteen. She escaped and told her mother, who went for the police, and on their return the man was found dead in the house. He had fastened a piece of string to the trigger of a gun, put his big too in the loop, placed the I muzzle otj.the gun_in his mouth and blew, his brains out.