AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3661, 20 September 1880, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Adelaide, This day. The Orient Company's steamship Cuzco has arrived from Plymouth. The Sorata. The Sorata'a back is broken and work at the pomps has been stopped. All hope of saving her has been abandoned. Melboubnk, This day. Thieves entered Government House yesterday, while His Excellency the Marquis of Normanby and his. guests were at dinner, and carried off £150 worth of jewellery belonging to Lady and Miss Robinson. It has been decided today to postpone the races in honor of Sir H. Robinson until Saturday next, owing to the heaviness of the course from the recent rains and floods. The Sinm with the inward Suez mail has arrived. The Race Meeting. The weather today is fine, and it is expected there will be a large attendance at the race meeting in honor of Sir Heroules Robinsou. Übisiunk, This day. The steamer Hippie arrived from the Solomon Inlands yesterday morning, with only the Captain, three kanakas, the mate, engineer, steward, a passenger named William Pense, and five wounded kanakas, one of whom is not expected to recover. The Capt. reports that while trading at one of the Islands with the natives who had come on board, the latter suddenly attacked them, and the crew with difficulty repelled the assault, but killed fifty of the natives.