DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(REUTERS TELEGRAM PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, May 7. Jt ig believed that the bottle fbutid at Portland relating to the Locksley Hair being wreckea at the Crozets is only a hoax.
The barque Twee B. Inenden, -which arrived from Java "with serious cases of fever on. board, has been placed in quarantine. May 8. Arrived—Union Company's s;s. Tararua, from the Bluff. May 8. Mr. Service, the Premier, has telegraphed to the Imperial Government to inquire whether there was anyone of the- name of Webster on. .board the Knowsley Hall. The reply, it is thought,' will give conclusive evidence as to the truth of the letter found in the bottle at Portland. Obituary—Moses' Ilintell, chief of the Hebrews in Melbourne. Six sailors belonging to the Twee Viemden, from Java, have died of serious, fever, which is raging in the ship. Adelaide, May 10. Arrived—Steamship Orient, from Plymouth. Sydney, May 10. The Pacific mail steamship Australia arrived here yesterday from Auckland. The bai'que Chandernagore has been seized for debt. Some of the mines at Newcastle are charging 14s, and others 10s per ton for coal.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1276, 10 May 1880, Page 2
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