TOWNSVILLE.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1492, 21 November 1874, Page 2

TOWNSVILLE.

jNovemoer* The mail steamship Legisktor.arrivedh® at 12.30, and sailed again at five for M bane. She left Hongkong on the m Singapore on the 20th, and Somerset o*W Ist.—The Dutch barque Batavia, wiftoj* from Sydney to Batavia, was wrecked, « Stephens Island, on a reef, about the » ultimo. The captain and b*!}, m and crew were picked yip-r "J. ship sailing through Torres BWgS A destructive typhoon has occurred at mr kong. A number of ships have beensnw (including the British Courier, Mm« /Imogen, Malvern, Mindham. A? ti"T Lizzie and Rosa, Sydney barque. Injw* The Ardent, P. and 0. steamer, Coin* Ellen Castle, aad Falcon.—A project »«J formed to connect the Indian WM lines in British Burmah with those of Am lia via Siam and the Malay Straits-* Straits settlements—Sumatra and J»M connection with a submarine cable to tralie and New Zealand. Legislative m tion is invited. A contribution is aswa by the promoters for this colony' 8» - connected Malay States, Johor, bal»g and Perok, of £16,000.-In re«g differences between China "^/rM!ft£l is every prospect of a peaceable sera . Japan commands the sea, having <?&*0 clads and several wooden men-of-war,. China has only about eighteen P?l| The brig Lanan cleared for New«w» the 19th October. The barque J«» from the colonies, arrived at Hong*" » the Sfch October, disabled. •