AUSTRALIA.
[special to press agency.] Sydney, January 24, The Assembly, yesterday night, approved he propriety of introducing a Bill to restrict Chinese immigration. The New Guinea Expedition. Melbourne, January 23.
A Cooks!own telegram reports the total failure of the New Guinea expedition, whioli left Melbourne in August in the sehoouer Dove. No gold was found. The party was prostrated with fever, and four died. The remainder of the party were attacked by
natives in canoes, but escaped. Shortly after the schooner sprang a leak. The men were terribly reduced by disease. Finally they were taken to Yoikohama [by the British ship Launc«lot. Great Fire at Hone: Kong, January 24, At Hong Kong a fire reduced 368 houses into a mass of ruins. The gaol was only saved by the most strenuous exertions. The British Insurance Company suffers but little. The rapid spread of the fire is believed to be duo to incendiarism.
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Globe, Volume XX, Issue 1540, 24 January 1879, Page 2
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