DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 6 September 1880, Page 2

DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(REUTER : S TELEGRAM PER PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Melbourne, September 4. The ship Eric the Red has been wrecked at Cape Qtway, She had on board American exhibits for the Melbourne Exhibition. One passenger, the oarpenter, the steward, and a seaman were drowned. The Orient Company's steamer Sorata is still aground at Cape Jervois. September 5, Obituary—Thomas Higinbotham, engineer, from apoplexy. The latest information to hand states that tlje Sorata is in a critical condition, the forehold is full of water, the engine rooms filling, and the fires out. September 6. Five hundred tons of American exhibits were on bowd the ship Eric the Red, which has been wrecked at Cape i Qtway, , Adelaide,- September 4. The Sorata struck on a reef a mile from Cape Jervois. .. She is still p,shore, but is not making water, All the passengers have been transferred to the steamer Woonanga. I September 6. It is feared that the Sorata's position is hopeless, and she is certain to, become a total wreok, It is believed that she 1 has on board a large quantity of ex- ' hibits for the Melbourne Exhibition, King George's Sound, Sept. 4i The P, and O, Company's steamship [Assam, with the inward Suez mail, dated London, July 30, arrived here this morning. Sydney, September 6. Thei'e was great excitement in tcwn yesterday, owing to the Government having prevented Professor Proctor from lecturing at the Theatre last night by putting pressure on the lessee, A crowd of 100Q persons proceeded to Proptor's hotel and cheered him. Sailed—Albion, for Auckland, on Saturday.