A sensational double attempt at suicide was made the other day by a man, about 30 years of age, named John Harris. He first drank a quantity of kerosene, and finding that was not effectual, threw himself into the Yarra, near the Corporation Baths. He was taken to the hospital and attended to.
One of the oldest Melbourne favourites in the world of public amusements — Barlow, of "Blue Tale Fly" celebrity— has returned to his old quarters after an absence of some years spent in cultivating a sugar plantation in Queensland. Mr Barlow proposes to make a tour through Victoria, beginning at Kyneton, with a new " entertainment.'' If he retains his old form, success may be expected as a matter of course.
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Grey River Argus, Volume IX, Issue 728, 17 September 1870, Page 2
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