VICTORIA.
A horrible assault has been committed at Geelong, where a man named Daniel O'Counell drew a butcher's saw across the I face of his mate, John Morgan, severing the upper lip and teeth from below the nose. A fearful gash was inflicted, and erysipelas has set in. O'Oonnell has beeu arrested. The wifci of a laboring man in Wnrrnambool has confessed to the authorship of i\ lar^e number of letters which have bren senc to various persons, written in disgUßOiug 1.-.nguago, and which had caused great jinuoyanuo through the signatures b<)ing forgeries of those of well known residents, | The Assembly has passed a resolution in favour of issuing a daily Ifans'ird, to be supplied to the public at cost price, and to libraries free. A writer in the Argun calls attention to the terrible destitution of hundreds of ladies in Ireland, consequent on the non-payment of rents, and solicits aid for them in the way of funds to establish a central works depot.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 245, 14 October 1886, Page 2
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164VICTORIA. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XX, Issue 245, 14 October 1886, Page 2
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