MELBOURNE ITEMS.
Miners are returning from Charters Towers in great numbers. The Grovernment will ask for £2OOO towards the Australian Exhibition Annexe. The Australian Alliance Insurance Company have declared a dividend of ten per cent, with, a reserve of £32,000. Strings of race horses are arriving here from Sydney." Mr John Be Haga, an opera singer, formely in Lyster's troupe, committed suicide, at Williamstown, by firing a pistol bullet through his head. The convict "Weechurch, recently respited from a sentence of death, attempted to commit suicide by opening a vein in his arm with a piece of glass. A Ballarat firm has accepted a tender for the construction of fifteen locomotives, at a cost of over £'jo,Go'J. Sales of over 15,000 bushels of .New Zealand Wheat have been effected up to 6s mostly for shipping. Oats are dull.
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Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1016, 25 October 1872, Page 3
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138MELBOURNE ITEMS. Westport Times, Volume VI, Issue 1016, 25 October 1872, Page 3
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