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Kumara Times, Issue 3046, 7 August 1886, Page 2

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[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. MORE DIGGERS BOUND FOR KIMBERLEY. RATIFICATION OF SAN FRANCISCO MAIL CONTRACT. COLONIAL PRODUCE MARKETS. ARRIVAL OF THE ORIENT STEAMSHIP LIGURIA at MELBOURNE. LATEST FROM KIMBERLEY. MANY MINERS RETURNING. GALLANT RESCUE FROM PERILOUS POSITION. (Received August 6, 10 p.m.) Sydney, August 6. Two steamers sailed to-day, taking 400 diggers bound for Kimberley. The contract between the Governments of New South Wales and New Zealand and the Union Steamship Shipping Company for the convnyance of the San Francisco mails has been ratified by the Legislative Assembly. New Zealand wheat is one penny per bushel lower, 4s 2d; New Zealand oats, 2s 6d per bushel, a decline of one penny; maize 561b5., 3s 4d; sugar unchanged. (Received August 7, 1 a.m.) Adelaide, August 6. Shipping wheat is 5s Id to 5s 2d a bushel ; Adelaide town flour, £ll to £ll 10s; town and country brands £lO 10s to £lO 15s. Melbourne, August 7. Arrived, this morning, the Orient steamship Ligurin, from Plymouth. The Age to-day publishes telegrams from Port Darwin stating that a schooner which has arrived there reports that many who had started for Kimberley had returned, learning that the field was unpayable. Three hundred men were working, but it is doubtful whether they wero making wages. [Per s.s. Rotomahana, at the Bluff.] Melbourne, July 26, In Queensland floods occurred in several places. At Charlesville, seven persons, including two blacks, a gin and her picanniny, a Kanaka, and three Europeans, were compelled to take to a tree for safety, and they remained in it all Sunday night. During the night one of the blacks fell off and was drowned. The townspeople made a raft, but it proved a failure. They were eventually rescued by Mr W. E. Yaldwyn, accountant of the Queensland National Bank, who, in a slight canvass boat, mads five different trips and brought them all safely to land. The river was running with terrific force, and it is thought Mr Yaldwyn's services should be recognised by the Humane Society. He was heaitily cheered by the tnwn&.people at St. George. Another boat, in attempting a rescue was swamped, and the ciew was only saved by the bravery of some blacks. The persons saved were—A. Marks, Boyd (carpenter to o<>bb and Co.), Cans, a jockey, a gin, and a picaninny, and one gin died from exposure. The town is in a state of famine, and a public meeting has asked the Government to forward supplies.