ARRIVAL OF THE OTAGO AND OMEO. LATER AUSTRALIAN.

Waikato Times, Volume IX, Issue 519, 16 September 1875, Page 3

ARRIVAL OF THE OTAGO AND OMEO. LATER AUSTRALIAN.

The steam ship Otago has arrived at .Nelson and th* Oei'ea at th-e Bluff from Melbourne. A letter has been published by Madahie Itastaul stating that her husband and the othor Communists, when they escaped from New Caledonia arrived At Peru, A man named John Ralton a native of Scotland, and 27 others were rescued from the natives on the Island of Matayata, one of the wHdest of the Solomon group. They had Seen in the bands of natives for ' the last eight years. : The Missiqnary schooner, Dayspring, while at New Hebrides, had a boat's crew fired on by the' natives, and one of the Islanders was wounded. 'The Melbourne Exhibition is opened. All the Colonies are represented excepting New Zealand ond Queensland. The exhibits are very numerous and occupy a large amount of space. The whole coLlection shows tke industrial and manufacturing progress of tke" Colony. Over 5,900 season tickets haVe been^sold, and the daily attendance to the present, has been %n average of Deaiiy 4,000. The machinery court is a great feature in the Exhibition. Richard Whycross Sawers, receiving teller at the Bunk ot Victoria, was arrested for embezzling £1.400. The deficiency was brought to light in a search for missing notes^ stolen irom the exchange clerk and not yet recovered, although a large jrowitrd has been ottered and a- free pardon to all but the actual accomplices. A woman named Selburn_was burned to death in a hut in Gippsland during a <lrunken orgie- with some men who aru also much injured. The Hero arrive! from Auckland on -the 7th. A woman wast stri^ok^by^ lightning in Melbourne and i ; «masned irisensi^e for an hour. She then j-epoverei uninjured.