AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1974, 22 June 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

[eeutee's telegrams.] MELBOURNE, June 15. Visit of the Prince of Wales. Mr. Collins Levy, Secretary of the Melbourne Exhibition Commission, who is now on a visit to England, telegraphs that he has had an interview with the Prince of Wales, and that his Royal Highness said ho hoped to bo able to visit Australia during the time of the Melbourne Exhibition, and would do so unless prevented. A New Company. The Australian Mortgage and Agency Company, which takes over Messrs Hastings, Cunningham and Co.'s wool business, has been floated, with a capital of a million. Sugar for New ZealandThe Sugar Company have sold 600 tons of sugar on New Zealand account. The Tea TradeAdvices from Foo Chow state that the new crop of Canton teas is inferior to last season's.

SYDNEY, June 21. Cannibal Orgies. News has come to hand from New Guinea that the Natives on the west of the island had attacked a number of villages on the coast, and had killed and eaten sixty women, whom they had captured. The Coal Tax. A meeting has been held at Wallsend, at which speeches were made denouncing the proposed coal tax. COOKTOWN, June 21. The ss. Core a. News has been received that the steamer Corea ran ashorj on Claremont Island, but got off the same night and was beached. She has sustained great damage. The Chandernagore Emigrants. The missionary schooner Ellangowan has arrived here, and brings five of the Chandernagore party from. New Ireland. They state that the vessel left Antwerp secretly, and used flags of all nationalities occasionally on the voyage. Sixty men were confined below on a penalty of being shot. They arrived at Larghlan Island on January 10th, and fifty days afterwards the provisions were exhausted and they bartered their clothes for food with the natives of Woodlark Island. The men repeat the accounts previously received of the deplorable sufferings endured by the party. The relief schooner Willy, which was despatched from Sydney with stores, transhipped from the Chandernagore, called at New Ireland on May Ist. She only stayed two hourSj and landed nothing but a bag of biscuits, a few pounds of pork, and one pound of tobacco. The men further denounce the perfidy of the colonising scheme, and say that the whole affair is a fraud.