INTERCOLONIAL. [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.]

Waikato Times, Volume XVII, Issue 1455, 29 October 1881, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL. [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.]

Adelaide, October 27. Arrived this aLcrnooa : The Orient Company's steamship Sorata, which left Plymouth on September 17.

Melbourne, October 27. Intelligence has been icceived that the barqiu, JEienivard, bouur] from Batavia to Melbourne has tx<mc ashore atPcis»arouan, on the coa^t of Java. No further information has been re* oeivecl regarding the missing steamer Bilolutha. It is now known there were fcweuty-two souls on boaid when she sailed from Melbourne for Sjdney. Thorpe has benn committed for trial on ,i charge of embezzling 1 £25C0 from the H ink. of Victoii i Tho deli ito on Mr Rimaay's motion was cont nue>l to ,i Lite hour in the Legislitive A^vmbJy Ltbt nis^ht, and was finally cjdj'iurijpcl t> to-diy. Tclcg-iams to hand from Freeman tie, Western Australia, repoit that a Fenian sca,ie has been occasioned there by the appearance of armed boats off the coast. They made off whon seen, and the police are now searching for the intruders. Liter intelligence from Freemantle state* that only one boat's crew has been seen on the coast, and not several armed boats, as at fir sb reported. Intelligence has been received that tho barque Gienvade, from Batavia to Melbourne, has gone ashore on the coast of Java.

October 28. There are still no news of the missing stea-ner 13alcliitha, All hope of her being safe is now abandoned. The debate on Ramsay's motion was again continued in the Legislative Assembly, but was, on the House rising, again adjourned until Wednesday next, 2nd November. Melbourne telegrams received from Freemantle report that the boat's crews, seen off the coast near that port was only a crew of whalers. The Fenian scare has therefore subsided.