IMMENSE AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED.
THREE LIVES LOST. ' Albany. Wednesday. Arrived yrsterday afternoon, P. & O.s s.s. Indus in King George's Sound, with the inward Suez- mails, >;dated London, February .24. * '-■■ f A Perth, Weduesday. A most disastrous hurricane has been experienced along the western coast of this colony, but more particularly in the northwest. The wind blew with great force and completely destroyed the town of Roeburne, the site of the pearl fishery, and Port Cossack, situated eight miles off. All the houses and buildings in both places have been levelled to the ground, and three deaths bave resulted from the disaster. ; : , Melbourne, Wednesday. Bryant, the informant of the Age irgirdiug the alleged Russian designs on the colonies, has been identified as a French refugee from New Caledonia, whose real name is De Beaumont, aud who was.recently discharged from Tentndge gaol. :.. Sydney, Thursday. - The schooner Prima Donna, 85-tons, in ballast, has been totally wrecked at Bonds , on the coast a few miles south dl, Sydney. Five of the crew have perished,- but the captain has been saved. '-f : \
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 61, 30 March 1882, Page 2
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178IMMENSE AMOUNT OF PROPERTY DESTROYED. Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVII, Issue 61, 30 March 1882, Page 2
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