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Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1124, 5 March 1872, Page 2

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[feu gueville's telegraph company, keutek's ' -agents.] Bluff, March 3. The s.s. 'Albion; left Melbourne on the 25th ultimo, and arrived here at 11 a.m;, and sailed for Dunedin on the night of the2ud. Passengers — Messrs Ehriman, Cook, Fenwick, Olliver, Patton, Markin, Bartlett, Martin, Martin, M'Donald, Whitford, Roskruge, Henty, Smith, Garforth, Ritchie, Murphy, Kelly, Rev M*Guinness, Rev M'Cashey, Hon Walter Stuart, Mrs Kelly, Master M'Donald, Master Henty, Miss Clapperton, Miss Ehrmann, Mis 3 Caldwell, Miss Marshall, Mrs Olliver, Miss Whitford, Mrs Henty, Mesdames Mouteroil, Durino, Faurell, Jeffries, Magard, Mrs M'Kinnoh, Miss M'Kiimon. . . Melbourne, Feb. 26. The banquet at Stawell was more sue cessf ill than the previous portion of the Ministerial tour. ; ; .: The cabinetmakers' strike, after eight weeks' standing out, has been brought to a close. ; Middling, a mining manager, who was indicted for manslaughter by allowing the use of an unfit rope in a Bendigo mine, has been acquitted. i. James Treyanon, the wealthy Bendigo mining speculator, charged with a criminal j offence upon a little girl,, attempted to hush the thing up, but was prevented by the Crown preliminary investigation. George Bowsher has committed suicide by placiug himself in front of a railway engine. The Government have ordered eleven double begie waggons to be constructed. The personalty of the late Hon. George Rolfe has been sworn under L 48,000. A claim at Majorca has struck stone twenty feet thick, estimated io yield a hundred and forty ounces, to the- ton; Subsequently the discovery of a reef still richer was reported. ■•.•-.-: The Great Britain, Captain Gray, brought 380 passengers, mostly assistant government immigrants, sixty days, John Hartley, accused of stealing a racehorse in Otago, has been arrested, and remanded to New Zealand. He denies being the man wanted. .Sydney, February 26.' Earl Belmore and his family embarked by the Sobraon for England. February 27 has been appointed a day of thanksgiving for +he recovery of the Prince of Wales. The Bank rate of discount has been reduced to five per cent on ninety days' bills. , -; Sir James Martin secured a seat for East Macquarie. t . Adelaide, February 26. Bishop Shiel is reported to be in a dangerous condition. He has removed the sentence of excommunication from the Mother Superioress of St. Joseph's convent. : '■■'■, Twenty thousand bushels of wheat have been sold at 53 4d for shipment to E.ngr land. ' ■