MELBOURNE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3567, 14 December 1882, Page 3

MELBOURNE.

December 13.

Messrs Goldsborough and Co. (limited) report a large attendance of buyers at their wool sale to-day, and brick competition. Greasy wool realised from 8d to 12|d, and washed from 16d to 23£ d. Five thousand bales were sold.

It is announced that the Union Steamship Company has purchased tbe steamship Suvs, 293 tons, from Messrs J. McEwan and Co., by whom she has for some time past been employed in the trade between Fiji and Melbourne. The company intends employing one of its large steamers on that line, and tbe Suva will be engaged in the islands as a feeder to the trade. It has further transpired that tbe company has made arrangements to open a branch establishment iD Melbourne on January Ist under the management of Mr David Mills.

The divers attached to H.M.V.S. Cerberus were sent to Creswick to-day to assist in rescuing the miners in the flooded Australasian mine. The apparatus, however, with which they were provided proved inadequate to enable them to reach tbe place where the men were at work. The divers endeavored to communicate with the imprisoned miners, but their signals were unanswered, and it is believed that the miners have perished. There is great excitement and distress in the Creswick district. Later. Three of the bodies of the miners drowned by the flooding of the Australasian mine at Creswick were recovered this evening. The water in tbe shaft.is being reduced rapidly, and the work of repairing the tubes which supply the workings with fresh air is cow being proceeded with. December 14. A telegram just received from Creswick reports that five men bave been saved from the mine, but the remaining twentyone were all dead when the relievers reached them. Later. The announcement of the finding of three bodies in the Australasian mine is now contradicted. The divers have been found to be utterly useless, and foul air has so far arrested tbe progress of the relict party. According to latest reports the miners are entombed alive in the eleven pump works. It is announced that Sir Charles Standen, 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. Latest. Telegrams from Creswick, time 7 a.m., report that the relievers hate ascended tbe shaft of tbe mine all cheering lustily, and have etated that, when in tbe main drive near the eleven jump works, the entombed miners plainly repeated " all right, we are all safe." It is hoped they will be rescued within an hour. Great excitement and enthusiasm prevails at the entrance of the mine, where crowds of people are collected. Very latest.

Latest telegrams from Oreswick state that the work of the rescuers was one of extreme difficulty owing to the quantity of mullock and wash dirt in the drives. Numbers 9 and 10 races were searched unsuccessfully, but on arriving at No. 11 the relief party heard a cry " all right," and this led to the widespread belief that all were safe. The rescuers, however, subsequently found that five only were alive; their names are Manly, Bowen, Corbett, Maloney, and Kirk. All are very ill from their long confinement. The total deaths in all are now known to number twenty-two.