NEW CALEDONIA

Grey River Argus, Volume XV, Issue 1938, 22 October 1874, Page 3

NEW CALEDONIA

From late files of the " Moniteur " of NeAV Caledonia, the " Sydney Morning Herald" obtains the following information : — " The transport ship Alceste, which left d'Arzew in Algeria, whence it had gone to seek the passengers of the Sybille, anchored in the harbor of Noumea on the 9th ult, after a voyage of 124 days, which comprised a stay of twenty hours at Palmas, in the Canary Islands, and five days at St Catherine's. The ship bears, saya the "Momteur, " the eighth convoy of persoas condemned to deportation to the number of 196, of which 41 are destined for the Isles of Ducos (' a fortified place'), while 355 have been sentenced to simple transportation (la deportation simple). The total number of the exiles which have been landed in the colony up to date, 3537, is made up in the following manner: — 810 persons condemned to transportation and imprisonment inside a fortified place, and 2727 condemned to simple exile. The number of women and children who have been brought out at the expences of the State, that they might be enable to rejoin the transported persons, amounts to 273. Among the communications addressed to the editor of the " Moniteur " is a letter describing the points of Young Leamington, a new arrival which the writer says had been ' celebrated in the Australian turf world.' The distinguished arrival, whose advent in New Caledonia is lengthily chronicled in the Government organ of the colony, is a * filly aged three years."