AUSTRALIA.
[keutek's telegrams.] SYDNEY, June 2. The New Ireland Colonis s. Nows has been received via Soloman Islands that tho foreign immigrants at New Ireland are in great distress and suffering from fever and ague, from which four deaths have already resulted. Fourty-five of tho party have removed to Duke of York Island. Six weeks after tho party landed on New Ireland, only three were capable of exertion, the rest wore prostrated with fever, and tho severe ulcers peculiar to the island. They possessed no quinine, with which to allay their sufferings. Their supplies of provisions, too, were quite insufficient, tho Chaudaganoro having sailed suddenly after a dispute as to tho leadership of the party on shore, and loft them without sufficient food. MELBOURNE, June 1. Racing. There are now fifty-one entries for the Melbourne Cup and twenty-five for tho Champion, including Mata and Camballo. ShippingSailed—To Anau, for New Zealand. MELBOURNE, Jane 2. The Kellys. The party of police which left Benalla yesterday has arrived at Beechworth, hut has seen nothing of the Kellys.
The Reform Bill. Tho debate on the Reform Bill in the Legislative Assembly still continues.
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Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1957, 2 June 1880, Page 2
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189AUSTRALIA. Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1957, 2 June 1880, Page 2
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