VICTORIA.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume I, Issue 31, 10 April 1866, Page 3

VICTORIA.

I TJy the Gothenburg, we have Melbourne papers to | the _7th March. Hugh George, the printer of tlie ! Argus had been in prison in the Parliment Houses since iho previous Tuesday, and appears to have been subjected to a deal of petty tyranny. His sleeping apyartment is stated by two medical gentlemen to be "unfit for habitation, and the air to be injurious to human life. He has been visited in his confinement by u large number of his friends, including nearly all tlie opposition members of the Assembly, and some ministerialists, some of the members of the Council had visited him also, aud others had left their cards ; he seems to have been subject to a deal of annoyance respecting his expenditure. The sergeant -at-arms having endeavored to restrict it to £5 a -day. The excitement in Melbourne respecting this attack upon the liberties of the press is intense. March 31, 1860. Mr. Fellows has been unable to form a Ministry. A motion passed in the Legislative Council to liberate Mr. George. Mr. Me wii I loch and his colleagues have consented to transact the pressing business of Government, but had not accepted office. In the case of Bruce v. Queen, the jury returned a verdict for plaintiff for =£177,000, with a special finding to the eil'ect tbat the delay in completing the line was due to hindrances caused by Government agents.