AUSTRALIAN CABLES.
A STEAMER WRECKED, OUTBREAK OF TYPHOID FEVER. TEN SHEARERsTsENT TO GAOL. DISASTROUS BUSH FIRES. (Per Press Association.) Sydney, November 29. A serious outbreak of typhoid fever has occurred at Wytilong, four deaths having occurred within the last 24 hours Ten shearers at Forbes were sentenced to terms of from one to three years in connection with the recent outrages. Bush fires in the Urana district extend over a tract of country ten miles wide, and are now burning right up to the Murray. Nothing etops their progress, and the farmers are sustaining heavy losses. The steamer Gwydia, from Sydney to Newcastle is a total wreck on the reef, j south of Bird Island. No lives have been lost. The vessel is insured in the South British for £4,000. [The Gwydir is a steel screw steamer of 518 tons gross and 323 tons net, and was built by J. Redhead and Co., South Shields, in 1886. She was owned by the Newcastle and Hunter River Steam Navigation Company, Sydney, and was a trader between Sydney and New.castle. She was commanded by Captain Stafford.]
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 132, 30 November 1894, Page 2
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184AUSTRALIAN CABLES. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 132, 30 November 1894, Page 2
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