ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL
VIA SUEZ. [By Electhic Tklegkaph.] [By the Nelson, we are placed in possession of the ' Grey River Argus of Saturday, from which we extract the subjoined telegram.] Bluff, Thursday. The Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Boyal Mail Company's Steamship Otago, from Melbourne; arrived this morning with the English Mail via Suez. The A.S.N. Co.'s steamer Alexandra, Captain Brown, arrived at Glenel g on Monday night, 3rd A_ug., after a good trip of ninety-three hours and a half. The Alexandra and Avoca encountered severe gales on the upward passage. The Avoca lost two boats and twenty-six sheep. The mail steamship Geelong, Captain Skottowe, reached the Sound at half-past five on the 13th of July. She left Galle at seven p.m. on loth of June Stackhouse in charge of the mails ; Mr Leversage, purser. Among the passengers from Sydney is Major Blackball, the new Governor of Queensland. Severe gales have swept the coast of "Western Australia. The schooner Emily has been wrecked, and eight lives lost. A despatch from Downing street proposes to increase the salary of the Governor of Western Australia to £2500.
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Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 331, 22 August 1868, Page 2
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187ARRIVAL OF THE ENGLISH MAIL Westport Times, Volume II, Issue 331, 22 August 1868, Page 2
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