A Melbourne paper says:—The late "Owns Constitution" must have been (if there is any truth in an old sailor's superstition) launched on Friday. Here is a category of the ills which We befallen those most prominently connected with it. "We cull from the " Spectator":—"The editors of that journal, which was first started in 1856, when the "Ovens Spectator" commenced its career, were singularly unfortunate. The first became insolvent; the second died suddenly, with a suspicion of being accidentally poisoned ; the third, Mr Barry, a short timo ago, committed suicide; the fourth and fifth editors became insane ; the sixth, a gentleman who bought the paper, lost heavily by the venture; the seventh and last being the only one who has not as yet sustained any serious calamity in consequence of his connection with the departed " Ovens Constitution."
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Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 719, 4 October 1870, Page 3
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136Untitled Westport Times, Volume IV, Issue 719, 4 October 1870, Page 3
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