AUSTRALIAN

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1226, 15 December 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN

(bv cable.—reuter’s telegrams). j The AuetrUaslaa Mine Aeol&eat. I MELBOURNE, Dec. U. The latest telesrams from Creswick stat. that the work of the rescuers was one of extreme difficulty owlnpt to the quantities of mullock and wash dirt in the driver, fen races were searched unsuccessfully, but on arriving at No. 11, the relief party heard a cry “all right,” and this led to a wide spread belief that all were safe. The rescuers, however, subsequently found that five only were alive. The names are Manly, Bowen, Corbett, Maloney, and Kirk; all are ill from their long confinetKWrt, Thi total deaths in all are now known to niiw>6* twenty-two. All the bodies of those who lost their lives in the Australasian Mine were found in the vicinity of the survivors, and have been recovered. Manley, one of the survivors, states that the majority dropped dowti froni exhaustion, and were suffocated by the foul air or drowned. Kirk is suffering from con gestion of the lungs, and is in a critical condition. The distress of the relations of the deceased miners was increased by a groundless report that all had been saved. A subscription list has been opened for the widows and orphans. At their wool sale to-day the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company Limited offered 2,900 hales. The sale was well attended, and competition was animated at full prices ; 2,500 bales were sold at satis factory prices. Good qualities are a shade firmer.

The survivors from the Australasian Mine state that some of their mates died some time before the party of rescue arrived. The deceased men have left seventeen widows and fully oue hundred orphans, and there Is a general and spontaneous movement throughout the Colony to raise subscriptions for their relief. Kirk, one of the survivors, who was in a critical state when rescued, is goW better. In the Legislative Assembly last night Mr Munro’s motion for the appointment of ft Select committee to report upon the railwayadministration, which was treated by the Government as a vote of want of confidence, was, after further debate, negatived on division by 44 to 33 votes. ADELAIDE, This bay. Sir William Jervois leaves this city fof New Zealand on the Bth January- next.