AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
GENERAL ITEMS,
MIILBorKNE, Nov. 2. In the case against the directors and auditors of the City of Melbourne Bank the jury returned a verdict of not guilty, and the prisoner-; were discharged. The jury desired to add a rider, owing to difference of opinion as to the management of the City of Melbourne Bank in the years 1*1)2 and 1898, bat the Judge said he could not allow it. Therefore a verdict was recorueu. Nov. :{. Finer weather than prevails this morning coakl not be wished for Cup day, and the attendance promises to be as large as ever. Ff.rth. Nov. 2. Mr Speight, formerly Victorian Railw# Commissioner, is Ivintr in the hospital here dangerously ill from inflammation of the lungs. Brisbane, This day.
Excepting in th<? central tli-tricts splendid rain has fallen throughout the colony and the ilfought has broken «P-
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Hastings Standard, Issue 162, 3 November 1896, Page 3
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