MELBOURNE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 2050, 31 August 1868, Page 3

MELBOURNE.

\ ■" - 3rd August. • •Three young menj; sons of a farmer residing near Lilydale, havebeeri suffocated through sleeping in & badly ventilated room with a Charcoal fire'! 11-'Th^ room was La new one, without a chimney, and damp. The young men, not,Teirig aw>re" of the danger, made a charcoal fire and .went to bed, and were found dead "this' morning on the door being opened.- .; - •'-; - ;i. ' ?. - -Mr Martin, the Attorney-General .of New South Wales; lias been entertained, by Mr Aspinall and other-meifcbers of the Victorian Bar^ at the Athenseum Club. ' ■THelosses'of "We Aiistlralasian Marine" Insurance Company' for the last' half-year amounted to L 14,000. 'Tfie steamship Otago arrived vfrom Dunedin to-day, with; 140 passengers in the steerage, most of whom intend to •proceedto the. 'Queensland GbldueldsliEmpire. ' '.■'-.'■•■:: .-•-...-;-;. .'> : .-.^--.;..; jMrYerdoßjimiaking-aifarewell of the 'electors of—WilKamstqwii,.'•stated-' that "it was not his iritentiori'to'seek'a'jseat in the House of Commons, jrot rather to attend' tdhig dutijea; as^Age£Wsen^j^:^i Vie- : Good accounts have Feeri; received friym the new diggings" in L Gipps Land. — Herald. ; .. {'■ ■-,-,- ■■ - ■ :>?;-.</•--i --.■-■.>.* -r 4th August. 'THe Chamber of pommerce has> re- ■. quested the Gdvernmenjb, to press upon the attention of Mr Majtin,:wbiJ.enheiis here, the desirability of a uniform rate of twopence per letter beitig impbs^di' for letters crossing- the border^ sand ; also to suggest the reduction of the intercolonial sea _rate/-^ jThe;'jchaTgiß?' df one shilling! made on all packets; and: newspapers addressed to this Colony, via the Panama mail; in.' consequence;.: pf fie" Sydney Government, demanding^'doublefletter rates on everything; •■' has caused" a great accumulatipn of . rejected ' papers '■.■ and packets at'isM Post-'offiqe.' Itis^reported !that upwards of LI4OO has teen remitted to Sydney for postages on such packets for the last six months, and-;that neatly the whole amount,has-been; lost in the department... - , — m- tons of Adelaide iioaTPJwereiquitted? at aaiction. to-day at--Lllf'-ips;-ta-liJ.7'l^s.--per ton, and alsp ,7000! ' "oa'ts^af ,^7dj»?;l>u3hjel s^Em^i*»'e.'''. : \ ; G,po.d. accoun.ts, iave. t.eea. received fro^ !B^land.Fi^.^iekr^^^Athe.iEi^seryad^ ■Q^eats.K;. ,:.' ■;■ .•.;•;■,-■. "'..- .-. ■■..' •: ■ ■'.--■■ ' r '■ \ The certificate of Captain Syderoi^-of' ! tlie Joshua^.Bates, v !h^be^!suspeft6isd for six months, for intoxication.

_ : The Bank of .Yi^tpria, .has,- declared 10 per cent, dividend^ and tne'Hobsaa's Bay .Railway 7 per g&%&.—Herald.,