AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 670, 15 December 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

RESCUED FROM THE CRESWICK MINE. Received December 14, 1.50 a.m. Melbourne Dec. 14. The announcement of the finding of three bodies in the Australian mine is not contradicted. Divers have been found to be utterly useless, and foul air has so far arrested the progress of tne relief party. According to the latest reports the miners are entombed alive in the eleven pump (sic.) works. Later telegrams from Creswick, timed 7 a.m., report that the relievers have decended the shaft of the mine, all cheering lustily, and have stated that when in the. in tin drive, near the eleven pump works, the entombed miners plainly repeated "All right; we are all safe." It is hoped they may be lescued within an hour. Great excitement and enthusiasm prevails at the entrance of the mine, where crowds of people are collected. Received December 14, 3.10 p.m. Melbourne, December 14, 11.30 a.m. The latest telegrams from Creswick stote that the rescuers' work was one of extreme difficulty, owing to the quantities | of mulloch and wash dirt in the chives. Numbers nine and ten drives were searched unsuccessfully, but on arriving at number eleven the relief party heard a cry of" All right," and this led to a widespread belief that all were safe. The rescuers, however

, subsequently found that five only were ' alive. The names arc Manley, Bowen, Corbett, Maloney. and Kirk. All are very ill from their long confinement. The total deaths in all are now known to number twentj'-t wo. It is announced that Sir Charles Sladen, M.L.C., has definitely decided to retire from political life. The debate in the Legislative Assembly on Mr Munro's motion was last night again further adjourned. Sailed yesterday, the eteamship Ringarooma for Bluff. Yesterday's announcement of her arrival was incorrect. Sydney, December 14. Parliament will be summoned to meet on the 3rd January. The Parkes Ministry will probably resign before that date, and announce the fact on the meeting of the House.