Australian Telegrams. Sentence of Death on Bavitt. McEwen's Failure. Great Fire in Melbourne. Fatal Accident. MELBOURNE. June 22.

Waikato Times, Volume VIII, Issue 486, 1 July 1875, Page 2

Australian Telegrams. Sentence of Death on Bavitt. McEwen 's Failure. Great Fire in M elbourne. Fatal Accident. MELBOURNE. June 22.

The pvisoner\B^it*»for fflte his wife at Carleton has rbeenVntfencVl w * tn a strong reconimenoation Ift) mercy. The cofferdam at the &w wharves, on the south bank of the Yarra, gave way owing to a fresh in the river. It throws several hundred men out of employment. Miss Boltoo has resigned th« mathematical position in the Ladies' College to accept a lucrative appointment at Chritstchurch. The wholesale grocer's liabilities, McEwens, are £86,000, of which £58,000 is due to the Colonial Bank, and is unsecured. A fire on the premises of Thomas Burke and Co., tea merchants, King-street, destroyed the stock and premises. The adjoining premises of Francis McPherson were much damaged by water, as were also those of Luck and Coj iusurancea amount to .£13,000 t Two men were employed at the rear df the Theatre Royal, in generating hydrogen gas for a limelight, when there was an explosion, and one of the men named Smith, was killed on the spot. Melliot, the other, was badly injured. Both men were blown through the iron roof, a distance of twelve feet. The " Argus " is sueing a country paper for plagiarising Reuters telegrams. The second reading of the Land Bill was carried. O'Conuell's centenary is to be celebrated in Sydney.