CABLEGRAMS

Patea Mail, Volume I, Issue 94, 4 March 1876, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS

EUROPEAN SEWS. TIDINGS OF THU STRATHMOUF. TWENTY SURVIVORS LANDED AT' HALLE. (From the Waii'/auat Chronicle). BOMBAY. February 20. A ship touched at Galle yesterday and landed twenty survivors of the St rat hj more.,from London to New Zealand, wrecked on Cro/.et Island in July, IST 3. They Were rescued in a wretched condition on January bv the American whaler Phcenix, which fell ’in with and transferred them to the Josh. Benth-y. Mr Oromhie was landed at Oalle. Mr and Mrs Wordsworth, Mr Walker, and Mr Keith remained in the’ Phieilix. Jjie mate and captain of the' Strutbmorc weredrosvued. A i; S t 1! A 1, t A X , :-vi in vv. February 2S. Our colony won the cricket match hy ! DP rims, A storekeeper named McOemothy, was stuck up near Binaiong. A snb-v iiitraetor shot one bushranger, wounding a id cap!tiring him. Arrived —Americm war vessel. She leaves for Auckland in about a week. March 1. Ten cases of schnapps were seized nit boar I the Windsor (’ast.h- yesterday. The’ captain a id crew tv-tnok them, but the Customs agent again s. iz -d tlu.au. MELBOURNE. March 1. [u the Assembly last night a member called the Minister of Mines a d ——if scoundrel, and thr.-atc.rtcd to p#li'ch his head. AUSTRALIAN NEWS PER ALHAMBRA. MELBOURNE. February 23. Mirams, Stonewall candidate, elected hy a majority of l.lUOover Carter for Collingwood. (lurison polled less than one--tiflh of the successful candidate, and lost his £1)0 deposit. A man named Stevens has been convicted for manslaughter at Ararat, for heating his wife to death.