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Clutha Leader, Volume II, Issue 54, 22 July 1875, Page 6

; Beilby, Scofrfc, and Co., Sydney, have filed their schedule. Debts, J.160,000,- assets, L 23,000. @ope, ihe Judge's Associate at Sydney has been killed by amoyejrdosp of chlorofdinn. ' I The Gold Duties Abolition. Bill has been read a second time in the N. S. /Wiles Assembly, There are 1600 prisoners in the Victorian gaols. .""-;■ A girl *fc Ballarat has accused ihree State school teachers o! undue familiarity. i Numerous, fatal ; accidents in ' , nainjng have caused the inflicion of fines at Sandhurst for defectire shafts, engines, bojlera, &c. The question of. the release' of Gardiner is again being discussed in the.N. S. Wales Legislature< '-'!'"■ , The scandal about Judge Dunne, Melbourne, is likely to- be ventilated, now;' rThe matter was; broughtbefor© the House. The; Judge, has scut in his defence to the charges of intoxication,. but they are hardly considered sufficient to satisfy the;country; :• . ' . Terrible accounts continue' to arrive : of the: fearful mortality from measles ;at -Fiji. The number of deaths on the' island of "Vanua, Levn, alone are estimated it 18,700. A. correspondent from that island, -writing to the ;*. Fiji .Times,' says :— At the town of Bromdna,; Nantea, nearly all the able-bodied men were,' at the date of my visit, 26fch April> reported to be dead; and the messenger of Death was there "claiming other victims daily. At the amall -town.' of i Mace,; Leva, two Euranga Lewas and a. son of. one of them; altogether with S3 natives, h&<{ died, including a woman, who strangled. herself with a i-ope. .In one of the' native towns were 40 persons dead,-aiid pigs are mating the bodies, as there is' but one man left to* bury them. . Atiheiown of Vuni Lagv • containing, about 70 able ,bo<iied m^n, 30 had died,, and., as, many: Bick.- In the small town of men had ,died> inoluding.Eaiu Naisi, a Bau- teacher, and the. measela Vwa« still prosecuting its work of death. Acebnrits^from Mac Matae are .very I diatressin^. , r ln some of the towns there are none-left to bury the dead.; . and in~ other instances the, deaths were so,, numerous thai the bodies were left in the huts, and the towns burnt to ; ashes: ; -jOnßabasaV j^iyer, thri deadbodies werethrown- into, the, stream, which landed them, along its shores, where dogs, piga, and.birds of preyhad a continued feastl W^^n all these, horrow wfflend, *nd d^ath; "and^destruction be stayed^ . is beyond ! calculatiorii * The Government has done little or ndtkirig towards mitigating the calamity, andrelieviiig 1 thfeppor; Buffering, starring, dying .natives. # quantity .of natwe itpwns on tMfi coast taye been deserted and. burnt. . It appears that . meaalea carried off .ihje inhabitants b<> fast that, those " ; of '.thjejk^ who ,' hadnotyeit^uglitVtli^ diseajaa got frantic with! -fea?, »nd ra^ , *way from Vtlujf tbwh r , G leaving ttie i demand dying and ; helplfessly.aick to their-fate. ' Two or three 6t.ty& letter escaped • with ; . their > "Hves and fired the town to : coammt K ihe f dea^i: ana banxsh^th* pestifoncei" The ] accounts 'rfromi "?Tatiavtf'i'B»y are! truly ■ appalling. ;! .M^>' Eoss,! ;f6tnterlyie«*tiry %o 'TuiCakan,;; informed, me! that in the tovm of Koronaiscoione. hundred andi twenty deathiß' h^-occurredofrpmimea^eaVJin-! dudingdae^mAn-'whoßhdtil^aelf'.injde^ Ofae T hundred and ; ;ten'>il?atiVe^ : dia4 ; .afc/iE&gffn»} r th4TJTiahi resorted. in ? the f^bj^ 'of; e^ping the dreaded Siaease.^ s-Ehe.^ifpktiyeSi^Bt Kwi treire fltJU.ayingloff>Jikfc } iotW,Shesp." .%! 3 i#y^t,fji>i)afl)aa!sie% *Nalav«>iiie^9ift r wad 1 -'- ptippldcaetitawSoas'o - r i^t^isnfe^ivTAiQtiiec :«ip6rt ; ;tom;.^<N"at*'Wk : £Ba3f- atateae-^ialK/fo^^ae: m ato'wn aaTn9^l£ung4 ;'feS : lh6ld ; tli.© -Taso»l' Chtiwhr -?weeMng| iittn^^ diba :; «f aaea^leKiand ii«feat«tti€i,i*ff«i <ar^i¥tia^hlrtyTd«atrhs^had. t»xHm^U ' h-r^-l