CALOGRAMS.
(Pjbe Pbess Agency.)
AUSTRALIAN.
Stdmey, April 18.
The Torres Straits mail arrived at Cooktown yesterday. There was no sickness on board, but the passengers were quarantined for sixteen- day?.. There is great indignation, and the agents refuse to land the mails.^ •,•;•■.:. .;-•■-! .rjiv-'- ■ ;'
Sir Wm. Jervoise is a passenger to Melbourne.'1 ; :; ..-.'-.
Of six men injured; by, an .accident -at the Echuca bridge, two died, and the others are in a critical condition.
Fears are entertained for the safety of the Annie Bon, which left-Newcastle forTimaru on the Ist o£ March.
Later. ~ Sailed: Sotorua.
The news via Torres Straits from China reTports thousands suffering through famine. The severest privations are at Eiangsee through famine, llice has risen to famine prices. The distress is daily becoming gi eater, the relief being lamentably insufficent. The people are reduced
to the last stage of emaciation and exhaustion, and are dying by thousands daily.
The Satsuma rebellion at Japan is more .serious lhau at first anticipated, but the rebels are dispersed by defeat.
;'■ Twb< thousand" (Jliinese troops, feeling dissatisfied, broke loose and left the camp, ;but were: fpllovred and a large number . - ■ ■
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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2584, 19 April 1877, Page 2
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187CALOGRAMS. Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 2584, 19 April 1877, Page 2
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