AUSTRALIAN.
Sydney, October 20, Tho steamer Alberta, Captain Neilson, bound from Japan to Melbourne, with 4700 tons of coal for the gasworks, has gone asbore on the Sutherland Reef near the Tweed River. The weather was thick at the time owing to smoke from bush fires, and the captain was suffering from a sunstroke, A steam-tug went out and rescued the ore*, but the vessel is half full of water, and there is little chance of getting her off, News has been received of the landing of a further'shipment of 430 recidivistes in New Caledonia. October 21, The Alberta, which went ashoro on the Sutherland Reef, is a new steamer, and was in charge of the pilot from Thursday Island. Her cargo of coal was for the Victorian railways, not the Gas Company as at first reported, Brisbane, October 21. Mr C Wraggo, Government Meteorologist, forecasts bad weafherjin high latitudes between the meridians of Adelaide and Wellington.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3645, 22 October 1890, Page 2
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157AUSTRALIAN. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3645, 22 October 1890, Page 2
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