AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume 4, Issue 405, 22 June 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

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' : MfitßOUßifls, June 21

. The .division on the .Kefornl Bill which takes place next 'Thursday is expected • to be very close, but it is thought • very ' will be • found to p'Ossewthe ■statutory majority in favor of the measure. . _' .. .* rf -/*'■•'*■■ . . 21. t , The J ,st;ejtrhe.y '^ Jtas • been 'wrecked' at Clarence; and sunk , . after striking the jeef. . All lives have ;sp,ve4- top or;tji,e ci:e.\v. tone . -W3firtnsTired for -£SSOO i« ''tlse; 'National of whicK-£3oo'6' the New Zealand-;" She belon£dd to H. Houghtori, of Dunedih/' arid was oommanded by. Captain Baldwin, who brought her from: New> Zealand.- ---' ) A meeting has ."been heltf a-VWallscncl, ■S . at which speeches wgre. made denounce itfg the' proposed coal' tax. ,- ';■ News conies to hand froni New Guinea that the' native's; west :of the isjand had,attacked n nnmber of villages oft the const, and' : l!iad . killed .and eaten *■ sixty woinoii'whonVMieyiiad; captured. .' ' ' ; --' CooHTOWN, June-21. News, lias been 'received that the steamer Cprea ran ashore on Ckremont Island, but got off the same night and was beached. She has sustained great damage. '!''.:■ Missionary schooner Elhuigowan ,TTJv'.; here, hnd i\r<- «>f

Chandernagore party from New Ireland. They state that the vessel left Antwerp secretly, and used flags of all nationalities occasionally on the;voyage. ; Sixty men were cotin'ntd below under, the penalty of being shot. Tln-y arrived at Larghlan ■Island on January 10, and fifty days afterwards their, were exnausted and they bartvivd their clothes for food with the n.-itivos of \Voodlark Isjtind. The men repeat the accounts previously received of deplorable, sufferings endured by the party. The: relief schooner Wily which was despatched Sydney with stores transhipped from the Obanderhagore called at New Island, but only stayed two hours, and landed nothing but a bag of biscuits, a few pounds of pork, antl one pound of tobacco. The men further denounce the perfidy of the colonizing scheme, and say that the whole affair is a fraud.