AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume VII, Issue 295, 11 December 1872, Page 2

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MELBOUKNii;. ; ; . r December 3. — The contract for ; building ,the Government House has been accepted at £64,000. A full court has decided that whipping: is, not to be inflicted by order of one magistrate. . d * Mine accident at Sahdridge; one man killed. A Larrikin Club has been established .at Col-liogwood-for the reformation of street boys.- r, ; December 4. — The exhibition is to be kept open till January. . , .■,••-■■,;/•". ;v A London telegram says the^Atratb, steamer* is coming here. ' J i: , New South Wales -Bank shares, £43 to £43 10s; Band of Hope- and; Albions,, buyers, J63 17s; aellers, £3 "19s. '.",'■. . .' ». Wheat sold at 6s; country flour, £15. , Hennessy's case brandy, J6s 9d.- y '■:■. ■ ' "U , ThevGommittees of the Chamber of Comnierce express their approval of the course taken by the:;^oyernmeutjwith^refefenice to the. Buezjmail contract. .■ '•' - ; : .'/.i."'-;:^-'' .'iv :,'-^.: : :- : '"'\ ■■ ' ■/"'■'[{■ r ■ ■•■;•.-: \\.-y 'i-^f:stDWSl.. : .:^ '' \-\ ;-. y : s : \ i December ; 4 ~Hawbrthi : a New Zealand fartist/r has: reopened lathe exMbitionisviith^New' Zealand; vsceneJ^F4t;| w v^k^^^^4#^^f^-i^^J>* ; -^^^

The people of Victoria are pleased at the ap- ' pointment of ' Governor JBoWen as Governor of Victoria. ' v . A Tiddingron, the treasurer, has resigned'on* ac-^; count of Jill health. ,• j« *,■ December 5. — A man named MfCrojVj ay butcher, residing at Woolloomooloo, has niurderei another butcher's wife named Ward, by cutting off her head, and then cut his own throat. He is in a precarious condition. Jealousy is supposed to be the cause. . . ...,...,. . Martin's defence is to be disbanded/