AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2710, 14 December 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. [retjter's telegrams.] Received December 14th, 1 p.m.

SYDNEY, December 14.

Parliament will be summoned to meet on 3rd January. Sir H. Parkes' Ministry -will probably resign before that date, and announce the fact on the meeting of the House. MELBOURNE, December 14. Sailed Yesterday, steamship Ringarooma, for Bluff. Yesterday's announcement of her arrival was incorrect. The announcement of the finding of three bodies in the Australasian mine is *s not contradicted. The divers have been found to be utterly useless, and the foul air has, so far, arrested the progress of the relief party. According to the latest reports the miners are entombed alive in the Eleven jump (sic) worts. It is announced that Sir Charles Sladen, M.L.C., has definitely decided to retire from political life. The debate in the Legislative Assembly on Mr Munro's motion, was last night again further adjourned. MELBOURNE, December 14. A later telegram from Creswick, timed 1 a.m., reports that the relievers have ■ ascended the shaft of the mine, all cheering lustily, and have stated that when in "the main drive, near the eleven jump ■works, the entombed miners plainly repeated—" All right, we are all safe." It is hoped they may be rescued within an hour. Great excitement and enthusiasm prevails at the entrance of the mine, where crowds are collected.

Received December 14th, 1.50 p.m. MELBOURNE, December 14,10.40 a.m. A telegram just received from Creswick "reports that five men have been saved from •the mine, but the remaining twenty- one -were all dead when the relievers reached them.