AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3758, 13 January 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Meiboubne, This day.

The^Orient Go's, steamship Chimbprazo which recently went ashore in Blackstairs passage has arrived here safely. The Victorian Regatta. - . The Intercolonial Yachting Kegata takes place in Port Phillip on Saturday. For the Grand Challenge Race, over a fifteen mile course, there are, seven entries, including the Taniwha, and the Victorian yacht Janet. Sydnet, Wednesday. it has transpired that Mr Becket, whose premises were destroyed by fire last night, was absent at the time from Sydney, he having gone to Shoalhaven. The insurances comprise :—On the stock: Mercantile Company, £4000; New Zealand Company, £4000; City, Mutual, North British, London and Lancashire Companies, each £2000; total, £18,000. On the building: United Company,^ £6000,—half of which was re-insured in the Victoria and Australian Alliance Companies. . Cooktown, Wednesday. The French worship Dcs Fre"es reports that she visited Basilisk Island, the scene of the massacre of the French naturalists, and destroyed a multitude of huts and plantations, but was unable to reach the the natives, owing to the scrub and rocks. She also found a large barque wrecked near Broker Island. The boats had left for Sydney or Few Caledonia, leaving the captain's wife and some seamen on board.