ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL VIA SUEZ.
[By Electric Telegraph.] [The following was issued as an Extra, from this office yesterday morning : — ] Bluff, Thursday. The Panama, Now Zealand, and Australian Royal Mail Company's Steamship Otago, from Melbourne, arrived this morning, Wringing the English Mail via Suez. The A,S.N. Co.'s steamer Alexandra, Captain Brown, arrived at Glenelg on Monday night, 3rd Aug., after a good trip of ninety-three hours and a half. The Alexandra and Avoca encountered sevens gales on the upward passage. The Avoca lost two boats and twenty-six sheep. The mail steamship Geelong, Captain Skottowo, reached the Sound at half- past five on the thirteen of July. She left Galle at seven p.m. on tifteeuth of June — Capt. Stackhouse in charge of the mails ; Mr Leversage, purser. Among the passengers for Sydney is Major Blackball, the i\qw Governor of Queensland. Severe gales havu swept the coast of Western Australia. The schooner Emily has been wrecked, and eight lives loet. A despatch from Downing street proposes to increase the salary of the Governor of Western Australia to £2500.
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Grey River Argus, Volume VI, Issue 404, 15 August 1868, Page 3
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