MELBOURNE.
June 1. There has been an attempted murder and suicide m "Stephen-street.' A woman named Annie Walker cut the throat of her so-called husband m a fit of jealousy, and tlien cut her own. She lies m a precarious * state. The man is not much injured. r The three-masted schooner Ybung Australia was driven over a reef m Curdie's Inlet, riejir Warrambool. Five persons were saved and one' drowned. Mr. Berry, a^GcelongJ'jfaid he would introduce a land tax, estimated to produce £200,000, which would leave a .surplus at, the e,p>d^<gf , the , year ; the 'wkole'to be devoted«toth.e"reductioTJL,of the tariff. Protective duties were not to be interfered with, but other articles hot now protected are to be added. 'A loan for railway purposes will probably soon be required. Two men have been arrested for for- , geries on the City of Melbourne Bank. 'They, are supposed to belong to organised gangs. ~~_
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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 67, 9 June 1877, Page 3
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