AUSTRALIAN.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8187, 1 June 1892, Page 5

AUSTRALIAN.

Ptem Aisodatloo—Eleslria Tdeewpto—Copyright. THE DKTBESSS IN MELBOURNE.

. •.■■■■■ MfiLBODfBsfB, May 31. Ah urgent appeal is being made to the public to relieve the distress iv the city. In the Legislative Assembly to-toortow the Premier will make a statement relative to the amount of poverty" existing in the pity, and ettfiurbe. GREAT FIRE IN MELBOURNE, A fire Ijroke out on the premises of Service an* Co., generai merchants of Cclli«a street. The top fioot wae< gutted and the rat of the building was damaged, principally by wafer. The total damage Iβ estimated at £55,000. The firm were issnred for £56,000, includiug National and Phoenix offices £3000 each; New Zealautt £2000, aud South British £1500. MURDER OF A CREW. StdhbTj May 31/ H.M.9. Arcber, which baa just arrived from the islands, reports that two Belgian* belonging to a trading schooner at Poi mutinied, and shot the captain and enpercargo and ppiepaed the other members of the crew. They seized the vessel and altered her name at Pacipe. A halfcaste gave inCormation to the GfOTemmeut. The schooner v?af seized and the Belgians arrested at the point of the bayonet, after a ■riolenft r«jistence, They were imprisoned, and eventually seat away, he&TiJy chained, ia a Spanish, man-of-war to Maaill* fof trial.