INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 148, 22 June 1880, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

,fi\i<J JtMi^oi^,fTuesday. , Mr CplUnai, Levy, of the Melbourne|ExmbiM6'nj^m,mi|sioo^who : is npvr ! on a visit to England; telegraphs "that he has', had an interriew; ; wlth the Prince of Wales and that hie RoyaTHigbriess" said 1 be hoped to be able to visit Australia during ;t he time of the Melbourne Exhibition, and would do 30 unless prevented.,,^, The Außtraliftn'^ortgage'ahd Agency Companyi wiicbT^-talces 'over' 'Messrs Hastings Cunningham and:^Co's: wooL business, has been fl§aWii3iJ f JtH.tarcapilal;of:6he million. The Sugar Company ( .have sold 600 tons of sugar on|S|e,w Zealand account. . Advices ffoniF66,Ghpw state that the new crop of Canton teas is" inferior to that of last season. . r .-..^^ ,.-,..,. "Ccxoktotvn, June 21. Newß has, been received here that the steamer Gofatf rarf ashore on Claremoht' Island, but got" off the 5 same night, and was beached. She has sustained great damage. The^' missionary^sdhooner Ellen Gowan arrived heref Slid brings five of the Chan-ler. nagore party frorrT'New Ireland. ■' They state that vessel leftsAintwerp 'secretly^ and used flags of all nationalities occasionally on her voyages V |. 4 S.ixtv{ men were confined below on penalty df DBing" -shot^.-; They, arrived at Larghlan Isl^nd^qn^igth January, ,and fifty, . days afterwards the r proVisipn s were'exhausted and they bartered their clothes for food with the natives of -Island. ' The men repeat the accounts 'previously received of the deplora_ble)safferit)gs endured by the party. The relief schooner .iYfily iwas, despatched from Sydney" witb ;Stores , transhipped from the Chandernagore.'^&lie called at New Ire-landonTsl-lrayf Bfid c Only itayfea'ftyo; hpurß; She landed clothingy^a but, & bagrbf biscuits^ a few pounds of pdrlcf aiid one' pounoi '6i tobacco, |3J|iei^m>n'further denounce the perfidy of the colonising scheme; and say that the whole affair is a fraud.

K-4t /' ' ■ <■> \ r/; Std'nby, June 21. i,;4News from i»Te\fr [Guinea i states that the Cnaitives\on the weslttftNew.v Ireland had at- • tacked a nuniberof villagfeß on the coast, and ■ shad-killed hiii eaten sixty' women whom they, i 'had captured. " r The steamer Wanganui has been wrecked at Clarence Heads, and sunk after striking \ the reef. All lives have been saved, except two of the crew. She is insured for £3,500 in the National New Zealaud, and re-insured for £3,000. She belonged to 11. Iloughtoti of Dunedin, aud was commanded by Captain Bayldon who brought her from New Zealand. A meeting has been held at Wallsend, at "which speeches were made denouncing the proposed Coal Tax.