Special Telegrams.

Thames Guardian and Mining Record, Volume I, Issue 17, 26 October 1871, Page 3

Special Telegrams.

Per OreTille and Co.’s Express. Reuter’s Agents.

rcr uremic ana uo. s jsxpress, jtveuver » ARRIVAL OP THE ‘ELEANOR’ FROM NEWCASTLE.? J _ LATER AUSTRALIAN NEWS. THE TICHBORNE CASE. RUMOURED NEW COALFIELD. DEATH BY DROWNING., j f BISHOP BAILEY COMMITTED FOR . , . ; TRIAL. . »f? ■ f r.' '• ! 1 LOSS,OF SCHOONER.‘MARY ANN'.’ SERIOUS ,CHARGE . AGAINST 4 A ' ! f RABBI; ' / CANNIBALISM AT TANNA. ’ . • Auckland, 8.50 p.m. The brig ‘ Eleanor ’ arrived in harbour this afternoon from Newcastle, having left on the 14th. She brings a cargo of coal, and files of later papers. Melbourne, October 9. The Council of the Royal Society ■ have decided to ask the Government for the sum of £BOO, in aid of the “ Eclipse ” expedition, which is to start in November, the 20th. It is rumoured that, a coalfield has been discovered on the shores of Hobson Bay. The Government have promised to give the unemployed work. '■ The Crown have refused to a 1 low Tichbome Council to take the police records out of the colony. Barbelle is comiug up to run for the CUP*''- ; Sydney, October 9. A lad was drowned in the Free Baths, to-day He is supposed to have taken a fit. Bishop Bailey has been committed for trial. , The schooners ‘ Sarah • Ann and ‘ Margaret ’ have been totally wrecked on the Richmond River.. The s.s. ‘ Balclutha ’. sailed for the Fiji on the 9th; after the absconder Rosen. The s.s. ‘ Blackbird ’ encountered a fearful gale oh her passage from Melbourne, and was compelled to put in ,at Twofold Bay ; there were several feet of water in the hold. A charge of indegent assault has been preferred against Rabbi, Davis. By the latest news from the Islands, we learn that Mr. C. Grut, a resident, has been murdered by the natives, and eaten. Queensland, October 9. Couth, master of the schooner ‘ Jason ’ has been committed for trial on the charge of kidnapping Polynesians.