AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 669, 19 November 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[press agency.]

Westport, November 18,

The Shipping Company's barquentine Alma, from Melbourne, arrived today. She left on the 10th inst., and brings Melbourne dates to the 9th.

George Goodman, a watchmaker, at Echuca, Miicided, firiug a revolver ball into hid ear.

Pa-trick Connell was smashed to atoms on the Krnetou Railway. lis companion, William Hone, narrowly escaping.

Two lads named Evans were drowned at Sharwell.

The Ke.llys, the Mansfield- bushl angers, are supposed to be lurking in Rats ' 'astlt Ranges, near Migo Creek. The poliue and settlers are in hot pursuit. :;■

Floods in the Muiray prevent bvishrang -i-s crossing and their capture is expected.

NEW CALEDONIA—MASSACRE OF THE LAMBERT FAMILY.

The Gunga brings intelligence from New Caledonia days later than the news by the Sea Nymj.h. Further details of the massacre of the Lamhert family prove .that overconfidence in the natives and in the proximity of the soldiers, distant but one mile and a-half,led to the lamentable vesnlt. So sure did Mr Lambert feel of the friendship of the natives that he had disarmed his people. His body was found in the verandah of his house seated at a small table, his head reclining upon his left arm, which rested upon th<« table. His wife was, like himselt. killed by an axe. Both seem to have met with a sudden death, and no time for a struggle Beems to have been given. The man-of-war Loire, with 200 soldiers and 360 convicts arrived on the morning of the 25th. A detachment of 100 me,n is to be despatched at once to th<> revolted district.

The frigate Tage sailed on the morning of the.2Sth for France, with 100 soldiers-.

At the hatest advices all was quiet on the east coast, upon which, it is said, there is not a single rebel. The rebels are surrounded on all sides, and ought soon to be crushed.