CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

Manawatu Herald, Volume III, Issue III, 23 May 1890, Page 2

CONDENSED CABLEGRAMS.

♦ ■ London. Further particulars of the wreck of the British India Company's stea iner Dacca have reached here. I. appears that the il : fated v-sael struck the north face of the Daeda us reef in the Kod Sea, about 6 o'clock in the morning. The bow wa« stove in, but her air tight comport inputs kept her aflopt for iora* time and she dil not ?ink utui nearly four hours a tev ?he sfc uck. There was a large number of emigrant* on board, but these were safely lauded ou the rock, every assistanoe being rendered by the li ht house keepers. The Palacooter conveyed all hands to Suez, where the emigrants are novr locted wait.ng an opportunity to proceed to their destination. Before the emigrants of the ill'fated steamer were rescued from the rock man} of them were standing up t dheir waist" in water The Dacca drifted a mile away from the seen of the accident, and the officers and cvew who were on board were res. cued by the steamer Rosirio just be fore she foundored. The emigrants bavo 'oat a'l their effects. The weather was fine and e'ear when the Dacca truck. Admirable order was maintained. There were a •'oz'm s a .lo m pasen^rs and 107 i migrant* ( mostly girls) on board. Th« officer* and the crew were on y taken off the ste msr just iv time. One ifo wi'B ost Mr Newt m, solicitor, who pleade 1 guilty to t • charge of being co» cened in a conspiracy t) defo t the «n 'a of justice by ndnoing witness's a^ainat those connected with the Cleveland street scandal to quit the country, has been S'-ntunced to six week* imp isonmeut. 11. At. Stan evd'-niea the statement that he ha 1 continual quarrels with Kniin previous to hi 3 arriving at Ba-jumo.o. There the latter began to '-strange liim«e!f It is rop -rf-O'i that Stan'ey advo-cat.i-8 the r.r»i»'S|)'">rt of American negroe ; to the Upp'T Con»o.