MELBOURNE.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2000, 2 June 1875, Page 2

MELBOURNE.

: •■■■'•' ''■■■'* ' ■•'•■'■:-- May 26. ■ The General Conference of the Wesleyan Church is being held. It was resolved to open the doors to adherents, admission to be by; ticketSi , , The Australian and European Bank has reduced expenses £1,500 per annum, with a view to an enlarged dividend; : Eichard: Williams was garrotted and robbed by two men in Fitzroy. Thomas Eiley, employed at •; Martin's brewery, has been; committed for trial for? a murderous assault upon the foreman. He attacked him with the brass tap of a hose. , '■■ The Governors of the Melbourne Hospital have resolved that M.B.s or M.D.'s of the Melbourne University should be allowed as candidates for honorary surgeons or hospital physicians. _ j The' Commissioners have resolved not to open the Exhibition until September the 2nd. Morris and McMurray, grocers, of Melbourne, have been sentenced to twelve and six months respectively, for fraudulent insolvency. The verdict in the poisoning case of Johanna Prior was, "Death by strychnine, but how administered there is no evidence to show." A prospectus has been issued of a company to buy Sargood's_ soft goods business ; capital £250,000, in £5 shares. The snip Blencathra is unharmed by the late gales. Harriet Barrett, wife of a bailiff in Carlton, has been stabbed to death by her husband. They lived unhappily. Her husband has been committed for trial. : Parliament was opened to-day. The Eifle Association matches aro to bo held the end of November. 6,500 persons visited the new picturo gallery iust opened. The action brought by Dobson against the Daily Telegraph resulted in a verdict for plaintiff on one count, damages £10, and a verdict for defendants on all the other counts. : Wheat, ss. Considerable sales of teas. Brandon's candles, lOd. Hennessy's pale brandy, 8s 3d. ; Melbourne Hunt ClubEaces : Hurdle Eace—Larrikin, 1; W. JB 1., 2 ; Marden, 3. Steeplechase-—Dawn;ofrDay,!; Miir--gah, 2. Flat Eace—Onyx, 1; Break-q;-; Day, 2. Victoria Grand National Stee--1 plechase—Prodigious, 1; Ballarat, 2.