TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
{Per Press Agency.') LATEST PROM AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable.] AUSTRALIA, Brisbane, March 23. The Banshee, steamer, from Townsville to Cooktown, is a total wreck on Hunscher brook Island, fifteen miles from Cardwell. Seventeen passengers and some stowaways were drowned. Six left the island 1o go to Cardwell, but there is no news of their arrival. The vessel is abandoned. The survivors were landed at Townsville by the Spuokie, schooner, after two days’ stay on the island without food.
INTBRPROVINCIAL. Auckland, March 24. Arrived—Broderick Castle, ninety-nine days from Plymouth, with 270 adults. Two children and one woman died during the voyage. There were several births. She had a fine passage, but experienced very high winds. All are well. The captain of the Brodrick Castle reports passing a ship, the Sparkenhoe, of Dublin, off Madeira, abandoned and her boats all gone. Bank of New Zealand, £l7 15s ; National Insurance, 24s ; Shipping, 765; National Bank, 745. Sellers—New Zealand Insur ance, 775; South British, 365; Colonial, 345. Wellington, March 25. Capt J. Campbell Walker, of the State Forest Department of Madras, is coming to New Zealand, in connection with the organization of the State Forest Department here. He is expected to arrive by the incoming March mail steamer. The fourth annual drawing of the Art Union of Victoria is fixed for the Bth April. The subscription prize list is expected to exceed any preceding. Greymouth, March 25. Sailed—The Maori, s.s., for Dunedin and Northern ports, at 10 a.m. Messrs Moss (the Mayor), Kennedy and Woolcock, M.H.R’s,who proceed as a deputation to Wellington, re the harbour works are passengers from Greymouth. The Brunner railway opens for regular traffic on Monday.
GrAHAMSTOWN, March 24,
Dr Pollen, in a telegram to Mr Rowe, refuses Government assistance to the unera ployed men to leave the Thames to get work, but offers a subscription of £5 as a private individual towards paying the passages of those who are destitute of funds,
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 552, 25 March 1876, Page 2
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