MELBOURNE.
April 3C. Colonel Scrolibly (?) and Sir William Jervois commence their duties here on the work of defence about June ; they begin first m Sydney. Five men belonging to the Admiralty surveying vessel were lost last week m Banks Strait through the boat capsizing during a squall. Richard Ford, town clerk of Ballarat, has been appointed secretary to the new Harbor Trust Commission, at a salary of £750 a year. There were sixty applicants. The railway to Dunkeld has been opened, 47 miles from Ararat. Business is improving ; the markets hardening on receipt of war news. The theatres are not doing much ; four are now open, besides other places of amusement. Mrs. Jury, the real sister of Arthur Orton, has come out here expecting to see her brother m Paramatta Asylum. Very heavy rains have fallen. It is now turning cold and wintry.
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 58, 9 May 1877, Page 2
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