AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
Melbourne, Mny 22. The Stevenson case still absorbs much public attention. A preseutment against five of the defendant", including Stevenson, Brinct, and Wilkinson, has been tiled, and will come off at the criminal Court next iftonth- ..„.-. X , A second trial in tlie celebrated Lenrmouth and Bailly case is now proceeding at the Supreme gourt.* X i, L , i % ; Thereon tract for furnishing thirteen rooms of the new Government House amounts to nearly £12,000. ']"'.' \j l : ' .' « John Roberts, jun., wilppia^ hi£ first game at billiards in Melbourne. A man has been arrested for the horrible outrage perpetrated on Mrs. Keece. She has identified him. A project is on foot intended for the establishment of sea water baths, with a capital of £25,000.- •-—»•" The Philadelphia Rifle Team left for Wimbledon by the mail steamer. The amount required, £l-,OjOO, was raised-by/privfttersubscrip-tfons, in addition to a similar sum from Goverumeut. . Talbdt, the tragedian, returned in ' the 'Northumberland. 1 ' Nothing hns been heard np to the 17th March, of tho barque ' Skeeryvore, 1 which took Victorian exhibits to New York. Convict Duff us, for criminal assault on his own daughter, was hanged thiß morning at Castlemaine. The weather generally is very favorable, but heavy rain with partial floods has occurred in Sydney. • ' - Mining generally is satisfactory.
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XXIV, Issue 2415, 31 May 1876, Page 3
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