AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Issue XI, 21 June 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Melboubne, This day Mr Service's Sefosm Sill.

The division on the Eeform Bill, which takes place next Thursday, is expected to be a very close one, but it is thought very improbable that the Government will be found to possess a statutory majority in favor of the measure.

Cookxown, This day.

News has bevn received that the si earner Corea raa ashore ou ClaremoDt Island, but got off the same right and was beached. She has sustained great d; nage.

The missionary schooner EHpngowaa has arrived here, and bJ'igs five of the Chandernagore party from Nev- Ireland ; they stale that tie vessel lei' .Anlwe.p secretly, pud used flags of ;: 11 Na ianalities occasionally on the voyage, b-xty in; ti were confined below on a penalty of being shot. They arrived at LaugHan Island on January-10, and fifty days afterwards the provisions were exhausted, and. they bartered their clothes for food with the natives of Woodlarn Island. The men repeat the accoi at previously received of the deplorable sufferings endured by the party. The relief schooner Wily, which was despatched from Syduey ttith stores transhipped from the Chandernagore, called at New Ireland on May Ist, but only stayed two hours and lauded nothing but a bag of biscuits, and a few pounds of pork, md one pound of tobacco. The men further denounce the perfidy of the Colonisation scheme, and say that the whole affair is afraud. Sydney, This day.

News comes to hand from New Guinea that the natives on the west of the island had attacked a number of vivagfs on tbe coast, md had killed and eaten sixv/ women whom they had captured.