AUSTRALIAN.
[eeuteb’s telegrams.)
MELBOURNE, May 23, In the Theatre Royal last night, while a larrikin who was creating a disturbance was being arrested, a false alarm of fire was raised. There was a general rush for the doors, but the panic was soon allayed. Several persons were injured by the crush during the stampede. The Hon. Robt. Ramsay, formerly Chief Secretary of Yictoria, is dead. Sailed, this afternoon—Union Company’s steamship Ringarooma, for Bluff. SYDNEY, May 23. Telegrams have been received from Woollongong reporting that the steam collier Llewellyn, 478 tons, of this port, has been wrecked near that place. The crew got ashore in safety. The vessel was insured in the Union office for £IOOO and in the New Zealand office for £250. BRISBANE, May 23. Two miners working on the Gympie goldfield were blown to pieces to-day by the accidental explosion of gunpowder.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2535, 24 May 1882, Page 3
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