VICTORIAN.

Thames Star, Volume III, Issue 1667, 22 April 1874, Page 2

VICTORIAN.

Mblboubne, Tuesday. ■ Mr. O'Shannassy has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council, and will contest Kilmoro for the Legislative Assembly. I A woman' whese name is unknown jumped off Bridge and was drowned. --s' .-/."'"-;'. i '■.-/■>■•• /-.< 1 Mr .Todd has had an interview with the Treasurer with reference to a reduction in the cable charges. Thp Government are favorable to the proposition; ; • ! i Kobert Hamilton", for many years clerlt bf the course at Flemington, died to-day |rom an overdose of laudanum. 'r• • \ ] Wiely and Nelson, two of the Satsuma mutineers, were brought before the Court jto-day. They confessed their guilt, and paid the men had made the mate drunk and had then tied him down. . They threw all rifles and firearms overboard. Five only bf the men went into the boat. !„ I Mr. Ivett committed suicide by laying his head on the railway line ; the train cut his head in two. ' i i Buyers of wheat are offering 6n; folders ask a penny more; ■ ; | The folllowing official telegram has Ibeen received by the Colonial Secretary from the QiieenslaM ', Grbvernment :-—'■ from the Police Magistrate at Cooktown. Please make thif public, with

a view, if possible, of stopping the present rush :—We have had three days' rain without intermission; such rain that nearly four thousand men can neither get on nor turn back. The weather prevents those determined upon reaching the Palmer from going; and want cf money deters many who would rather return South. The Government should try every means to stop people from coming here, crowding into a place where there is nothing to do, and from which they cannot get but. There are more people here than circumstances justify.