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COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.
VICTORIA.
[From our o wn Correspondent,]
Melbourne, J una 22.
The Police Court investigation into the
charges of forgery, preferred against
Arthur Robt. Daly, a solicitor, in connec
tion with applications for transfers of
land, has resulted in the prisoner being
committed for trial.
An investigation Into the accounts of
Thoe. Henry Doolan, the missing taller
of the Bank of Victoria, has disclosed the
fact that an extensive manipulation of
accounts has taken place. Doolan's defi
ciencies amount to between £700 and
£1,000, and a warrant has been taken out
for his arrest.
Mr. Alfred Cellier, the celebrated
musician and conductor, left to-day for
London by the Liguria in order to con
duct his new opera in London. A large
number of friends and admirers assembled
at Williamstown to 3ay good-bye.
Mr. F. H. Cowen, the musical director
of the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition,
arrived to-night by the Austral, and was
welcomed to the colony by a committee
representing the musicians of the colony.
The Loiidon University authorities
have informed the Premier that they
intend to withdraw the Gilchrist scholar
ship from Australian students owing to
the lack of candidates.
Another arrest has been made in con
nection with the jewellery robbery at
Mar}borough, Queensland, Robert Porter,
the husband of the woman arrested the
other day, having been taken Into cus
tody.
The Steam Navigation Board to-day
censured Captain Gilbert Moore, captain
of the tug Falcon, for an error of judg
ment In causing the collision with the
steamer Gem, but did not charge him
with default.
Captain T. Webb, of the steamer
Nemesis, has been appointed assistant
harbormaster In the Harbor Trust, vice
Captain Smith, resigned.
The railway from Balrnsdale to Ileat-i
field was opened by the Premier to-day.
The Licensing Court at Geelong to-day
named 17 hotels to be closed in accordance
with the local option poll in March. A
case will be stated In the Supreme Court
upon points of law which have been
reserved,
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