AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
Outrage by blacks. Perth, June 18.— A hor4e of blacks attacked the camp of three men on the Leopold range anJ killed two, Robert Allan and Thomas Henry, the former was a New Zealander. Victoria disarming. i Melbourne, June 18. — Government has decided to reduce the strength of the militia by 1,000 men, and Rave £20,000 per year. Wreck of* an Auckland vessel and gallant rescue. Brcsbane, June 18— Captain Curran and five men comprising the crew of the three masted schooner Waireka, of Auckland, have arnved at Maryborough in a decked boat, after being nine days at sea. The schooner was wrecked at Long Island, about 400 miles from Chesterfield. She was unloading machinery at the island when the cable parted in a ga!e on the 27th of May, and she strut k on a reef at midnight and sank. Only the bowsprit remained above water and to this the men clung till daylight, when Captain Blundell, a resident on the island, gallantly went to the rescue of the illfated crew, who reached shore with difficulty. The shipwrecked men procured a cutter and sailed for Que3nslanl where they arrived in good heath.
The men lost everything ia \hs wreck,
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Bay of Plenty Times, Issue XX, 20 June 1892, Page 2
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202AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS. Bay of Plenty Times, Issue XX, 20 June 1892, Page 2
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