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Marlborough Express, Volume III, Issue 100, 8 February 1868, Page 6

The opposition in Sydney have started a comic anti-ministerial journal, under the title of “ The Laughing Jackass.” A Melbourne paper, referring to the above, says : —“ As representing particular interests, there is another member of the Australian ornithological family capable of aiding newspaper nomenclature —the Lyre Bird, for instance, with a strong staff of imaginative town correspondents. The Rook and Pigeon, again, might find a class of which it would be the most fitting exponent.”

Great Inundation at Manilla.— A letter from Manilla, of October 7th, gives the following painful intelligence :—“ Since our report of the 19th ultimo, we have had very boisterous weather, and few shipping days. Manilla, during the 24th and 25th ultimo, was under water—in some parts four feet of water over the streets; and disastrous inundations have taken place in the northern provinces. Reports were yesterday received from Hocos, that three villages have entirely disapeared, and several hundreds of lives lost. The mail from Europe of the 10th of August, which should have arrived here about the 24th ultimo, has not done so, and fears are entertained of the steamer from Hong Kong to this port being lost. The Water lily has put in here in distress, with heavy damages. The Sardinian, from this* New York, has put back also with heavy damages; and the master of the Stuart Wortley has arrived in an open boat, having been wrecked in the gale on North Danger Shoal. Dears are entertained of the Annie Langton, and the Fort Regent, both having been last seen in a very dangerous position. The Par Hazard (a British barque) is a total wreck on the coast of Boudog, to the south, and further disasters are daily arriving. ’ ’ —Panama paper. A telegram dated Havana, November 24th, says the official burial returns show that 1,014 persons lost their lives in the late hurricane at the island of St. Thomas The Cholera reports from Havana are creating considerable excitement.