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An Add aide telegram states that the barque Sarah Bell, bound from Port Victoria to London, had put in there. A mutiny broke out on board. The captain was placed in irons, and the vessel brought into port. An attempt was made to Are the vessel. The accounts of the affair are most conflicting, hut there appears to be every reason to believe that the captain was to blame.
At Sydney, on the 14th instant, Mrs Fisher died at the quarantine station of small-pox. At Melbourne, it is stated, though the report must be received with caution, that the Commissioner of Trade and Customs has decided not to continue the drawback now allowed on barley. At Sydney, on the 16th instant, a fresh case of small-pox appeared in the heart of the city. The sufferer (a female) has been transferred to the Quarantine Station. At Adelaide it is exp°cted that the Onverumcntwill prosecute the crew of tha barque Sarah Bell for mutiny. No fresh cases of small-pox have occurred in Sydney since the 15tb inst., and all patients in quarantine are progressing favorably towards recovery. The authorities however have in no wise relaxed their vigilance, and are making every' effort to prevent tho spread of infection, and t« stamp out tho disease.
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Dunstan Times, Issue 1005, 22 July 1881, Page 2
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213INTERCOLONIAL Dunstan Times, Issue 1005, 22 July 1881, Page 2
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