TOWN EDITION.

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 101, 27 March 1888, Page 3

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Received March 27, 1240 p.m. Stonot, This Day. . The John Knox put in at this port ■ short of provisions. She is fromKaii para, and reports meeting with a I succession of heavy gales and storms, i which were so violent that the vessel I was run far to north to escape their > j fury, thus much protracting the voy- » age. I Melbourne, This Day. The Jackson Reef Company's mine 1 at Kimberley was utterly condemned by their manager some time. ago. ' Subsequently they sent a party to inspect and make a report on the mine. They have just received the report stating that some splendid stone, has 1 been found, and the manager now admits that he was altogether wrong in his former statement as to. the worthless character of the indications. Brisbane, This Day. The Louisa Lament, which struck on a coral reef some days ago, has been towed off apparently little damaged. Exports for the year ending 31st December, 1887, are estimated in value at £5,538,000. The report of the Stock Board shows the disease which recently appeared among the stock in different parts of the colony is contagious, and due to vegetable parisites. The disease does not affect the wholesomeness of the flesh, but canses the animals to shed their wool or hair. A remedy is being sought for the disease. Cooetown, This Day. The Albatross has just arrived here with- three French escapees on board. They were discovered and taken off an island in Torres Strait, where they had been for two months. News has just been r eceived hereof a terrible eruption and tidal wave at New Britain. The German steamer Ottilie left Firneharen on 3rd March last for New Britain, and left a party of 22 on the island to select and take up ground for coffee plantations. The steamer returned to the island on the 15th, but as none of the party apon the shore to answer the steamer's signals the captain landed and found the Island a scene of great devastation. Large uprooted trees were floating about the harbor, and from, indications on the shore it seemed as though an eruption had taken place, followed by a wave of forty feet high. There were fishures in the ground in many places, and all the building material and stores for the projected operations, had disappeared. r Later on five Kanakas were found in a very emaciated condition. AH they could be induced to say was that they had "been up in trees for three days, during which time they had been without food. A search party discovered some clothes and boots but nothing else belonging to the expedition the members of which are supposed to have all perished.