LARRIKIN CLUB IN MELBOURNE.
LOCUST PLAGUE AT BALLARAT,
DEATH THROUGH JUMPING FROM
A RAILWAY TRAIN.
TRADE STRIKES IN MELBOURNE
MELBOURNE.
November 20
Dr. Crane was consecrated Bishop of Sandhurst by Cardinal Cullen, at Dublin, in Sept. —Immense flocks of locusts, covering an extent of more than a mile, are passing through the Ballarat district, and are eating everything before them.—The police have ascertained that a complete larrikin organisation exists in Melbourne. A club has been formed and the members subscribe la. a week each. This fund is devoted to the payment of fines inflicted upon members of the ciub. £10 was deposited by the secretary as bail for a larrikin on Saturday. Inquiry showed that the funds in hand amount to £23. — Proceedings have been initiated in the Insolvent Court with a view to commit Aaron Waxman for trial on a charge of conspiring to defraud the creditors in Eosenwax's estate. The judge reserved judgment, on an application to tile an information. — A revenue inspector has been found guilty of perjury in swearing that he bought liquor from an unlicensed house. — When the boat lost by the ship Essex was picked up, a shark twelve feet long was found inside.—The Government have decided in favour of the outer circle railway to connect Melbourne with Oakleigh, the starting point being the Gippsland line.
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Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1496, 26 November 1874, Page 2
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