AUSTRALIA,
[Reuter’s Agency.] Melbourne, June 27. Arrived—P. and 0. Company’s s.s. Hydaspes, with inward Suez mail dated
London, May 20. She entered port last evening. The [Royal Princes were not accorded a public reception to-day, as was intended. They dined with His Excellency the Governor this evening at Government House. It is understood the repairs to H.M.S. Bacchante will take three weeks to complete. Mauritius advices to the 17th inst report that the present season’s crop is expected to he an average one. Late engagements for the colonies are slight. Adelaide, June 27. Arrived this morning—-Orient Company’s s.s. Cuzco, which left Plymouth on May 14. Sydney, June 27. Two ffesh cases of smallpox were reported to the authorities to-day from the Surrey Hills. The sufferers are another child of the carpenter, Edward Eons, who died of the disease on the 17th, and her mother. The house and all the inmates are still kept in strict quarantine, in order to prevent any probability of the disease spreading. The steamship Ocean, with 480 Chinese on board, did not proceed to Melbourne, but has entered Port Jackson, She was at once quarantined and it is expected that she will not be released for forty-two days.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2580, 28 June 1881, Page 2
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202AUSTRALIA, South Canterbury Times, Issue 2580, 28 June 1881, Page 2
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