AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Waikato Times, Volume XXXIV, Issue 2754, 8 March 1890, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

» • '• (BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH. —COPYRIGHT). Sydney, March 6. fan examination of the steamer ">ikii since she. has been docked, shows that she had a most retnarkiblu escape from 'i.Uig wrc-cktd when she struck iu Torres Strait on the voyage from China to here. The third and fourth rows of platen are for thirteen inches, and the rivets are torn out for forty'feet on the port side, aud twenty-two feet on the starboard side. The dents appear as if the vessel had passed bet wen two rooks, which had crushed her sides in. It is considered that if the hull of the Sikh had been of iron instead of steel, she would have instantly gone down. Mr Henry George, author of "Proureas and Poverty," who has arrived here from San Francisco, via Auckland, met with a good,reception. Deeble offers to match Stansbury, the Australian sculler, against O'Connor, the American oarsman, who arrived to-day by the Mariposa, in a match for £500 a-side. Beach is of opinion that' O'Connor is not fast enough for our* best sculler. O'Connor states that he is anxious to'meet the best scullers in Australia as soon as possible. March 7. H.M.S. Egerie has sailed ou a surveying cruise. It is believed she will visit the wreck of the Quetta. A Victorian syndicate has purchased the Hon. J. White's yearlings. O'Connor baa challenged the winner of the Kemp Matterson match,' and will then give Stansbury a chance. Brisbane, March 6. The position of the steamer Quetta has been accurately buoyed. Forty-four dead bodies recovered from the wreck have been buried, and of this number ouly three have been identified. No rock has been discovered where the ; > steamer Quetta sunk, and it is considered possible that some internal explosion may have caus d the sad disaster. > The testi mony is uniform as to the very slight ooucussion only, and the tremendous grating. The captain remarked that tbe 1 first iut'm.itnh of the catastrophe: sounded like the bursting of a tank, followed by a grating sound. . i; March 7. The Quetta'a cargo was insured in the New Zealand office for £1300, and in the National for £2745. Adelaide; March 7. The captain of the barque Glenross, which went ashore at Cape Banks in the Murray, has been suspended for eighteen months. ■