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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 616, 28 December 1869, Page 2

A fire was discovered to have broken out about three o'clock on Friday, 10th inst., in a small room at the Rifle Brigade Hotel, corner of Lygon and Elgin streets, Carlton. The room had been in use as a store-room, and one of the inmates of the hotel first gave the alarm. A good supply of water being handy, the flames were speedily quenched, and the damage done was comparatively very small. The p; 94 mises were fully insured, so that no loss will fall on the proprietors. The four stragglers from the ships Phoebe and Scylla, belonging to the Flying Squadron, who have been arrested by the police, were again brought before the city magistrates, in Melbourne, and remanded to the military head quarters, the military authorities having received' instructions to forward all deserters to Sydney to join the squadron. One of the quartette and evidently the youngest behaved himself in a most indecent mauner in court, and intimated sotto voce, a wish to " have all the bobbies in Petticoat-lane, and he and his pals would soon settle the lot," 1 After heiiitf removed to the watchhouse he con-, tidently informed a detective officer that he " h.wl been once pinched for robbery, but he soon slung the darbies ;" Anylice — he had once been arrested for robl cay but managed to extricate himself from his handcuffs. Upon the whole, he was about the brightest specimen of a London street iTiVub ever, seen 111 Melbourne.