Australian.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3208, 18 May 1889, Page 2

Australian.

tei. May 16. >' the Government have taken opinion of counselwith regard to the alleged misappropriation of the funds ' of the Casual . Labour Board by Mr John Davis, the chairman, and fintel ' that by reason of his office he is amenable to the law tinder; which a profleoution could be sustained. . 1 Brisbane, May 17. A man named Power and two women were drowned at -Bustard •• Head, near Port Curtis, through their' v boat upsetting. , .. A rich silver lode has been dig- - 1 covered sixty miles-from Oloricurry, ■' a _ copper-mining centre in Burke District.. An assay gives 80002 to the ton. The lode is said " to bo traceable.for'thirty miles, . ' - . -Memoubne, May 16. . ■ ■ Arrived—German warship Sophie, en l'oufo for Apia, The first discovery .that the t;old was missing from the' Orient Company's steamer Iberia was made on : the arrival of that vessel at London. - ( The Company assume that possibly ~_J the money. waß".short shipped at ttk Sydney. * Sydney, May 16. The agents of tho Orient Steamship Company and the .Union Bunk , authorities are of opinion that the 5000 sovereigns were abstracted frojilfcO the .shipment of 50,000 snd that the robbery was committed before the Iberia left Australian waters, ,

Marine Disaster-

Brisbane, May 16, : Tho schooner Roderiok Dhu baa arrived from Mallicolo Island, ono of the New Hebrides Group. Her captain reports being informed by the natives that a vessel bailing from Queensland was burnt off the coast there, and many of those on board perished in the flames, The survivors, the natives asserted, died ■ from starvation, Tho fire was caused by a woman dropping a matoh into a - vessel containing pitoli, which was '• stowed away under the bunks, and the flames spread so rapidly; that many had not time to reaoh the deck,, and lost their lives. The news of : V the disaster was confirmed by .s anothor tribe farther down the j but they were less precise as to destruction of the vessel and loss of lives. The Roderick Dhu made a-' ' diligent search in the neighborhood, but could find no trace of the vessel or her crew, , ,