MELBOURNE.
May 8. £50,000 having been subscribed, the Meat Freezing Company will immediately commence operations. The barque British Queen, bound from Charente to Melbourne, put in at the Cape, owing to the crew having mutinied and broached the cargo. Arrived — Tararua, from tho Bluff. May 10. Mr Service, the Premier, has telegraphed to the Imperial GtoveriimenD to enquire whether there was anyone named Webster on board the Kuowsley LI all. The reply, it is thought, will give conclusive evidence as to the truth of the letter found in the bottle at Portland. Obituary — Moses Reuter, chief of the Hebrews in Melbourne. Six sailors aboard the barque Twee Vriembrer, from Java, have died of a serious fever which is raging in the ship.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXII, Issue 7112, 11 May 1880, Page 2
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