MELBOURNE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1969, 27 April 1875, Page 2

MELBOURNE.

April 20. The Victorian gold export for the year ! amounts to 198,278 ounces, against 316,557 ounces in corresponding period of last year. , The captain of the steamer Ellora went mad on the vdyage round from Sydney, and .would insist on steering for Western Port as a short cut to Melbourne. Eventually Captain Standish, who was a passenger, had him arrested and confined. Pour revolvers were found in his cabin. Oats lower, 3s 9d to 4s 3d. Bickers, a free selector, has been murdered at Terrick by a neighbour named Menton, who had a quarrel, and stabbed him to the heart. Louisa Rengalman and Ah Eat have beenr committed by a coroner's jury for the wilful murder of Rengalman. A policeman has been committed for trial at Hotham ,for stealing a bottle of brandy from an hotel. , O'FarreH's trial is not concluded.

The Mint charges have been reduced. The sale rate for gold now paid is the same as by, the Bank of England. Madame Eastoul 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 JSTew Caledonia, where, by a process of starvation, they were condemned to slow death.

Men ton has been committed for trial for the Terrick murder.