AUSTRALIA.
[Eeutee’s Agency.]
Aquatic.
Meluouune, Jan. 11
In the Corio Bay Begatta the Victorian yacht Janet was first, with the Auckland yacht Taniwha second.
Boss of a Home Ship.
The ship Hereford, bound from London to this port, has become a total wreck on Cape Patton. All lives have
been saved. The Intercolonial Gathering.
The South Australian, West Austra Ban, Tasmanian, and Victorian delegates to the Intercolonial Conference, leave Melbourne to-morrow for Sydney, Wool and Grain Show. Sir Samuel Wilson takes the champion ■prize for wool at the Exhibition, The show of grain and agricultural produce at the Exhibition opens on Eeb. 23. Celestial Bacon. Cooktown, Jan 11. Further news to hand confirms the information received yesterday of the massacre of the Chinese crew of the schooner Prosperity by the natives of Leucadelsland,and states that the bodies were smoke-dried and the heads sent to the various villages.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2439, 12 January 1881, Page 3
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147AUSTRALIA. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2439, 12 January 1881, Page 3
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