AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2711, 15 December 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.

[jbeuter's TELEGRA-MSj Received December 14th, 3;10 p.m. MELBOURNE, December 14, 11.30 a.m

Latest telegrams from Creswick state that the rescuers' work was one of extreme difficulty, owing to the quantities of mullock and washdirt in the drives. Numbers nine and ten rise were searched unsuccessfully, but on arriving at number eleven the relief party heard a cry " All right," and this led to the widespread belief that al were safe. The rescuers however subse quently found that five only were alive. The names are Manley, Bowen, Corbett, Maloney, and Kirk. All are very ill from their long confinement. The total deaths number twenty-two. Eeceived December 14th, 10 p.m."

MELBOURNE, December 14.

At their wool sale to-day the N.Z. Loan and Mercantile Agency Company, Limited, offered 2900 bales. The sale was well attended and the competition was animated at full prices. 2500 bales were sold at satisfactory prices. Good qualities are a shade- higher. Received December Hin, 10 p.m. Arrived,thismerntng—"Union Company's steamship- W airarapa, from the Bluff. All' the bodies of those who lost their life in the Australasian mine were found in the vicinity of survivors, anl have been recovered. Manly, one of the survivors, states that the majority dropped down from exhaustion, and were suffocated by foul air or drowned. Kirk is suffering from congestion of lungs, and is in a critical condition. The distress of the relations of the deceased miners was increased by the groundless report that all had been saved. A subscription list has been opened for the widows and orphans.