THE SUBMARINE CABLE.
INTERCOLONIAL NEWB. [BY SUB-MARINE TELEGRAPH.] Brisbane, March 23. The Banshee, steamer, from Townsville to Cookstown, is a total wreck on Huncheabrook Island, fifteen miles miles from Cardwell. Seventeen passengers and some stowaways drowned. Six left the island to go to Cardwell, but there is no news of their arrival. The vessel is abandoned. The survivors were landed at Townsville by the Spunkie, schooner, after having been two days on the island without food. ’
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Evening Star, Issue 4081, 25 March 1876, Page 3
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76THE SUBMARINE CABLE. Evening Star, Issue 4081, 25 March 1876, Page 3
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