AUSTRALIAN.
Supposed Fatal Fire.
Sydney, This day
The business premises of Mr 3ecket, American importer^in Barrack street, were totally destroyed by fire laafc night. All efforts to subdue the flames were fruitless. Becket ordinarily slept on the premises, and, as he cannot now be heard of, it is feared he perished in the fire. Melbotjbne, This day. Arrived: P. and O. Company's steamship Efydaspes with the inward Suez mail dated London 3rd December. Arrived : Te Anau, from the Bluff. All hope of saving the Hereford has been abandoned. There are now thirteen feet of water in her hold. The Australian Cricketers were" passengers by the Eingarooma, which sailed yesterday. Melbourne, Tuesday. The South Australian, West Australian, Tasmauian, and Victorian delegates to the Intercolonial Conference leave Melbourne to-morrow for Sydney. Sailed : the Union Company's steam, ship Eingarooma for the Bluff. Cooktown, Tuesday. Further news to hand confirms the information received yesterday of the massacre of the Chinese crew of the schooner Prosperity by the natives of the Lcocale Island, and states that the bodies were smoke-dryrd and the heads sent to the various villages.
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Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3757, 12 January 1881, Page 2
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183AUSTRALIAN. Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3757, 12 January 1881, Page 2
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