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Thames Advertiser, Volume VII, Issue 1834, 8 June 1874, Page 3

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS

rßßSA''Albion;'"''; ". i ■■»- ■ '"■ : (Per Anglo-Australian Press Telegraph Agency.) . . - ~—: —*—: -. : j WBJCK OF AN ENGLISH SHIP--79 LIVES LOST. . Bluff, Sunday. ; ; ■;, Melboubnb, June 2. Intelligence was received on Sunday of the loss of the ship ' British Admiral,' 1,800 tons, bound from London to Melbourne, on King's Island on the 23rd of May, with the loss of 79 lives. There were only nine survivors, including four of the crew and the third mate. The ship's chronometer was out of order and the captain lost her reckoning, the ship striking on the rock on the west side of the island. She went to pieces in half-an-hour, and not a vestige of her remained. She had 49 passengers, indud • ing 11 women and a number of children. The Bcene is described as heartrending, when all were.swept away. The captain and first and second officers were lost. The wreck occurred at a spot just two miles from where the ship 'Netherly' waswreoked nine.years ago. The survivors arrived here in a small ketch and were being cared for. The news created a profound sensation, as most.of those lost had friends and relatives in the colony. The Government sent a vessel this morning to search the coast, and an inquiry will be held to-day.

After an uninteresting debate the address on the Governor's speech was carried without a division. A bill for the reform of the. Council was,read a first.time.

(The O'Farrell frauds continue to be a subject of debate, and will have further investigation. ■ Mr Degraves has resigned his seat in the Legislative Council. Messrs Taylor, Balfour, and Thomas Smith are candidates.

The Government are unlikely to join in the Customs arrangements with other colonies.

In the divorce suit Bishop v. Bishop, petitioner obtained her verdict. None of the bodies have yet been recovered from the Duke and Timon mine at Maryborough. A tender of £139,767 has been accepted for new Government offices.

In the action for libel against the Licensed, Victuallers' Gazette the plaintiff received £250 damages. A vessel was seen bottom up between Cape Howe and Kent's Group.

79 entries have baen received for the Melbourne Cup last night, inoluding four from New Zealand.

Governor Du Cano returned to Tasmania to-day. The firm of McCallum,. Weill,' and Co., merchants, have suspended and declared liabilities of £36,009. '■'...

The South Channel was lighted for the first time last night, and the s.s. '.Nubia' was enabled to come up.

The Argus made arrangements to get the result of the English Derby brought for publication the same morning as the Cable Company, so as to anticipate the news. It occupied an hour in transmission from London to Melbourne, having only the weather to contend again. The cable was lately broken between Singapore aui Bftta.vi% kft. lp giwe-

: Sydney, Colonel Connely, another Communist prisoner, escaped as a stowaway in the steamer ( Egraont.' The Government carried the ratification of the Californian mail contract without a division. The Commodore sent a complimentary letter to Captain Grainger on his getting off the steamer ' McGregor,' and bringing her here. . The French barque' Charles Augusta' was wrecked in Torres Straits, and the 'Bluebell,' an Auckland-built schooner, in the pearl fishery.