AUSTRALIA
[.Reuter’s Agency.'! Adelaide,' Aug. 25. Telegrams are to band from Beachfort conveying the news that the steamship Euro, 284 tons, has struck a rock
off the coast near that place, and has become a total wreck. She sank in 20 minutes, and passengers and crew, numbering 45, narrowly escaped with their lives. One passenger a lady, was drowned. Sydney, August 25. Humors arc freely current in town of gross mismanagement at the small pox quarantine station. In. the Legislative Assembly last night, a motion was introduced by Mr Forster requiring the appointment of an additional Eoyal Commission to act with Mr Julian Salaraons, Q.C., in the enquiry into the Milburn Creek Copper Company affair. The Government hare accepted the motion as one conveying an expression of want of confidence, and the House has in consequence adjourned to Wednesday next, wfien the motion will he debated. Two fresh cases of smallpox have been reported to-day from Sussex street. The sufferers are the father and sister of the girl Margaret Lindsay whose case was reported on Tuesday last.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2631, 26 August 1881, Page 2
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177AUSTRALIA South Canterbury Times, Issue 2631, 26 August 1881, Page 2
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