AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
[BEUTERS TELEGRAMS.! Keceired February 23, 1.30 a.m. Melbourne, February 22. The prisoners charged with the Collingwood baak robbery were tried to-i!»/ at the Criminal Session. Beale, who w<:s the leading spirit in the attempt, was sentenced to 8 years' imprisonment, J while his accomplices. Murray and Hop kins, rect-ived 6 years each. The other prisoners ware tiequitled by the jury.
Melboubne, February 22. Mr Derham has accepted the portfolio of Postmaster-General in the new Minis-! try. i The Waihora having been successfully Boated, arrived here this morning, all well. She steamed from Swan Island accompanied by the tug. Later. The Waihora is now alongside thr wharf discharging carno, which turns out in generally fair order, but a little being damaged. Thi? ressel will be docked to-morrow, whon the extent »f the damage she has sustained will be ascertained. The horses which were ou boaid arrived her** saFely. Cook i own, Thi» Day. Nothing has jet l»een heard of the twelve persons who hare been missing since the boat accident on the 15th in*t., und it ia considered certain they hare all perished. ___^^____—
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Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 109, 23 February 1886, Page 2
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