CABLE NEWS.
[from our own correspondent.] AUSTRALIAN. DEPRAVED TASTE OF THE BLACKS. THEY EAT A CHINAMAN! Brisbane, Nov. 7. The blacks attacked the Chinese camp at Normanby, They slaughtered and ate one .Chinaman, whose bones they picked clean, SEVERE GALES. MANY WRECKS AND LOSS OF LIFE. SIfDNEY, NOV. 6,
A heavy gale on the coast placed the brig Wild Wave in extremity, and her pumps were kept going for 66 hours. A seaman named Charles Kennedy was washed overboard and drowned. The Captain and mato were both swept overboard, but both were saved by a returning wave.
The ship Omba is wrecked. Fears also are entertained that other vessels have met with the same fate, as the beach is strewn with wreokage.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 920, 8 November 1881, Page 2
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122CABLE NEWS. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 3, Issue 920, 8 November 1881, Page 2
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