AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3876, 1 June 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, This day. News has been received from Home by the Suez mail that Commodore Wilson has been raised to the rank of BearAdmiral. . A discussion took place in the Legislative Assembly last night on the Eeform Bill, but the debate was finally further adjourned. Sailed : The Rotomahana yesterday for the Bluff. "■■, Launceston, This day. The barque Cambria, about which some anxiety was felt arrived here last evening from the Mauritius. Stdney, This day. Parliament is summoned to meet for the dispatch, of business on the sth of July.

The steamship Wakatipu has been detained, and sails to-day for Wellington. Sydney, Tuesday. i A telegram has been received from > Wollongong, a. seaport about 60 miles south of Sydney, reporting that the I barque Queen of Nations, of the White Star line, has been wrecked on the coast, a short distance to the north ot that p.acc j The captain and all the crew, except.pne seaman, have been saved, lhe vessel is bumping heavily on the sand, and is ex pected to become a total wreck. She left London on the ?sth February, ani.jwas bound for Sydney. __ .. The latest telegrams from Woollongong report that the captain and mate of the barque Queen of Nations refuse to leave the wreck. Their proceedings are said to be extraordinary.