AUSTRALIAN.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3542, 21 June 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Brisbane, June 20. A passenger who was on board the steamer Dacca, wrecked in tlie■' Bed Sea, has arrived here. He oan give no reason for, the disaster, as tlie sun was shintiig brightly at the time the vessel struok,- and they could : bB6« for miles around. : !& > large number ol passengers were landed in their night-clothes. The ' surrounding water was literally swarming witli sharks. r A", -i.Tlae firemen ..belonging to the iteaiei' behaved, badly • after. sthe acoident, andsoVerdr oP them /wlio suspected of stealing money jielongirig'to ijasseiigers l wer6 ;; taken before the Court at Port Said, and sentenced; to ferns pf •impris'obmeht. Melbourne, June 20. The Premier-has 1 received' a'- okblegram Graljam, Berry, jn reference to 'the : interview between the Agents-General and Mr Gpsohen inconneotion witli'the h cable guar : aiitee. It states that while Mr Goschen' personally/' would liketo meet' the views of tlie.. he hesitated to create a precedent of the Government subsiding cable companies ; moreover,lie,was afraid, if |hc proposed < : arrangement '.were carried out, it might delay the.:p. jeoted'Paoiflo, cablev -He. -promised to give further consideration to, tlie' subject' b'eforeintimating the ' final deoißion.of.the.GoYorntiaent. ~,