AUSTRALIAN.

Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 68, 10 August 1878, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Per Rotorua at Auckland.;]

Sydney, August 1. Large meetings, held in Sydney and Melbourne, adopted congratulatory addresses to Earl Beaconslield.

The prevalence of typhoid fever here is attracting much attention. There is considerable mining excitement owing to the striking gold at a depth of two thousand feet in a shaft atStawell.

A deputat' on from the ■ Exhibition Association waited. _ ojni/Mis* - Berry, offering cordial support ach the proposal to hold an Intercolonial Exhibitioi| " \ at Melbourne. Brisbane, ‘ August 1. There is a great rnslh to a place forty- - five iniles below Bahuersville. A thousand' Chinese have got there already. The South Esk arrived with 363 imihigrants. . < lie the outrage atSolomon’s Island/ the ‘ Sydney News’’ says: Th tlio schooner Isabella report :: the murder of a whaler at an Island situated near the southern end of San Christabel, and that H.M.S. schooner Beagle shelled the native village.’ For years past Captain Fergusson, of Sydney, has always had a man on the Island, and has traded with the‘natives peacably, and lived in perfect security. Latterly Captain Schwartz stationed a man named Townsend and a boy on 'the weather side of the Island, but no native village was near his place. It is unlikely therefore that the victims connected with Schwartz’s enterprise might be connected with the New Zealand firm, also stationed on the Island. The only other resident was John Stevens, of Sydney, who has been engaged for years trading for Captain Fergnsson It ap- • pears that the murdered man was landed on the Island Uge, by Captain M‘Leod, who was in charge of the brigantine Ada. 1 Another man who was ill, and landed at the same time, iiad been badly speared and is now on board the Beagle. M‘Leoc.l js master of the brigantine Ada.