ADDITIONAL TELEGRAMS.

Grey River Argus, Volume XII, Issue 1143, 27 March 1872, Page 2

ADDITIONAL TELEGRAMS.

. Melbourne, March 20. Mr Dunne has been sworn in as Judge. Hewitt beat the boy Bedford easily in a five-mile race. Davis, a gardener at Brighton, has preferred a charge against his wife of attempting to poison him. The house of Leslie Moodie, Inspector of Distilleries, has been burned down through reading in bed. A charge of cruelty to a. child from the Industrial School has been- preferred against the Rev-. Mr Abrahams and his wife, of the Anglican Church, Emerald Hill. / ; : Sampson, laboring under delirittmtremens, jumped from a railway train at Malmsbury, but was not injured. ; A servant girl has been burnt to death at St. Kilda, by the incautious use of kerosene in lighting. a. fire. ■„;'.-•• St. Patrick's Day observances were marred by heavy weather. There is no clue to the fire at the Theatre Royal. St. George's Hall had a narrow escape. : ; Sydney, March 19. Eight more survivors of the New Guinea expedition have been discovered alive. It appears that two rafts left the Maria. One raft containing thirteen, near the shore, capsized, and five ; were drowned. The rest escapea. The natives were hospitable. Further north the second raft was found, with several bodies strewed about, some drowned, some killed by natives. The search for survivors is still being made. A steam hammer quartz crusher is patented. Adelaide, March 19. Government bonds to the amount of Lll,ooo, at six per cent, redeemable in 1910, have been taken by the Savings Bank at Ll4 10s premium. The preliminary works for the Glenelg railway are progressing. A cargo of Mauritius sugars, ex Sarah, was sold at rates generally sustaining the market. , Launceston, March 16. It has been decided by the Roman Catholics to institute a convent, and money is now being raised for that purpose. '; ' '"