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Grey River Argus, Volume XVI, Issue 2095, 27 April 1875, Page 2

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[press agency.] ■ .-.,..'■ .Melbourne. Bickers, a free selector, was : murdered at Terrace by a neighbor named Merton, who had a quarrel and stabbed him to the heart. Merton has been committed for trial. v South Melbourne lost the Cup at the cricket match. There were 5000 spectators present. Great excitement. Mrs Eenzleman and Ah Katt have been committed by. a coroner's jury for wilful murder of Renzleman. It is intended to found a permanent fund for the purpose of assisting shipwrecked seamen and their widows. A policeman has been committed for trial at Hotham for stealing a bottle of brandy from a hotel. O'FarieH'a trial is not concluded. The gold export for the year amounts to i97,2780z, against 316,5570z in corresponding period of last . ear. The Mint charges have been reduced, and the rate for gold now paid is. the same as by the Bank «f .England. The captain of the steamship Ellora went mad on the voyage round from Sydney, and would insist on steering for Western Port, as a short cut to Melbourne.' Eventually, Captain Stan dish, who I was a passenger,' had him arrested and ponfined. Four revolvers were found in his cabin." Barch Leeches liabilities are L 23.000 in England, as many hundreds here. Mauritius white ! sugars are iri better demand } sales at L 34 to 85.

Oats, lower, 3s 9d to 4s 3d. Madam Rastoul has written to the Argus, and states that the reason her husband and other prisoners escaped was to make known to the world the treatment they received in New Caledonia, where by a process of starvation they were condemned to slow 'death. . , Efforts are to be made to float the Blencathra, ashore at King's Island, jq v Sydney The Mikado arrived from San Francisco four days before contract time. Maize plentiful at 43 to 4s 3d, large terms. Beisbane. The Marine Board in the matter of the wreck of the Gothenburg, attributes the loss of the vessel in a great measure to an unsuspected current seawards, caused by very heavy . floods in the Burdekin and other rivers, and aIBO considers that due caution was not observed in navigation, and that no attempt had apparently-been made to sight Cape Bowling Green lighthouse on Cape Upstart;' " " ■'" '■'"' ' ' . .;'./ :v';"i : .^r..' The immigration authorities in England eport that the burning of the Cospatrick has had a'g£ea't influence in checking immigration. -. ........ -.-• ■.•.:•;-;!! . r ■ -: ; Adelaide. -.■•. Seven thousand pounds has been collected for the Gothenburg Fund. ' " Wheat, 4s. " ■■■■'■'.-■':