AUSTRALIAN.

Auckland Star, Volume XII, Issue 3384, 1 June 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

REAR-ADMIRAL WILSON

' MELBOURNE, Wednesday. News has been received from Home by the'Stu'Z mail that Commodore Wilson has been raised to tho rank of Rear Admiral. A discussion took place in the Legislative Council last night on the Reform Rill, but the debate was finally further adjourned. Sailed: Hotomahana, yesterday, for Bluff. • A MISSING VESSEL SAFE. ' ' LATJNCESTQNj Wednesday. The barque Cambria, about which some auxiety was felt, arrived here last evening from Mauritius, SYDNEY, Wednesday. Parliament is summoned to meet for despatch of busineis on sth July. THE WRECKED BARQUE. Latest telegrams from Woollonj-ong re. poit that the captain aud mate of the barque-Queen of Natioris refuse to leave tbe wreck. Their proceedings are said to be extraordinary. The steamship Wakatipu has been detained, and sails to-day for Wellington. A BARQUE ■WRECKED. .. ; ~ ■; SYDNEY, May 31. A telegram ha'"- been received from Woollongong, a seaport about sixty miles south ; of Sydney, reporting that the barque Queen of Nations, of the White Star Line, has been wrecked on the coast,a short distance to the north of that place. The captain, aud all the crew, except one seaman, have been saved. The vessel is bumping heavily on the sand, and is expected to become a total wreck. She left London on February 25, and was bound for Sydney.

Arrived : The P. nnd O. Co.'b steamship Bokhara, with the inward Suez mail dated London, April 21.