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Bruce Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 701, 18 May 1875, Page 6

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ARRIVAL OF THE OMEO> Melbourne, May 8. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has received a telegram from London that the wool sales are spirited. The Rev Charles Clark left Sydney for Melbourne yesterday (Friday). The Inebriate Retreat has had to refuse ladies for want of room. Davies, ventriloquist, is a success at the Theatre Roya l , I-.urline will run at the Adelaide races. Leonard Skelly, an old man, was choked with a piece of meat at Brighton, and died He had no teeth, and tried to swallow a piece of mutton weighing 20z., and measuring 3in. by 2^in> Mr Marsh, secretary to the Young Men's Christian Association, was treated to a farewell soiree prior to his departure for Dunedin. The League support secular education actively. At Ballarat, an alarm has been caused by the discovery that there have been large sales of fluky mutton. In Melbourne the Commission of the Presbyterian Assembly has finished sitting, after having discussed the religious instruction of the young. The Rev. Father O'Malley, in a letter, argues and disputes the assertion of there being more crime among Catholics than Protestants. A meeting of bank-managers is to be held in Sydney to consider the advisability of taking action similar to the Melbourne Banks in reference to the Bank of New Zealand. Audley Coote has arrived in Sydney on business connected with the New Zealand cable. Two thousand Chinamen have landed at Cooktown. Parliament meets on the 25th. A wrffc haa been issued at Ararat for the election of a member iv the plag? of QakVtolU

Sereral candidates in the City Council have accepted an offer of the Mayor to to plant Collins- street East with shadetrees. The City of Ball a rat Loan of £50,000' has been successfully floated. Experiments with a new specific to cure fluke have abruptly terminated, the dogß] destroying the remaining sheep. The specific, however is favorably reported of. j The Golconda, with the English mail, reached Melbourne on May 3. Anthony Trollope is among the passengers. ! A respectable elderly women committed suicide by cutting her thoat at Sandhurst The Catholic clergy are still continuing the agitation against the Education Act. A collision occured on the North - Eastern rail, by which some damage was caused, but no persons injured. The Locomotive Department report that breakdowns are less frequent or serious in Victoria than elsewhere. The National Bank of Australasia have declared a dividend of 10 per cent., with a bonus of 2 per cent. The National Labor Bureau is so far a comparative failure. It has beeu decided i to reduce the fees of employees to Is. The Local Board of Health at Mel- 1 bourne intends to prosecute several factory and workroom owners for breaches of sanitary regulations. - The Exhibition Buildings are rapidly completing. Arrangements are concluded for floating off the Blencathra from King's Island, as she is now clear of cargo. S.D. Hastings continues to lecture in favor jbf . G-ood Templarism, and several demonstrations have taken place. A shocking suicide occurred at Daylesford. Mary Anne "Wilson, aged 24, swallowed a bottle of laudanum. She had led a wretched life with Chinese. The Minister of Railways visited St. Arnaud, May 6th, to inspect proposed railway routes. At a banquet he promised to submit a measure next session to promote further jrail way extension. A public meeting held at Melbourne, May 6th, passed resolutions in favor of a progressive land law. Enthusiastic meeting at; Sebastopol in support of Education Act. Hastings, the Good Templar, is replying "at meetings to the 'Argus ' criticisms. The discussions are warm.