AUSTRALIAN CABLEGRAMS. BRISBANE, Thursday.
Tho 'Banshee,' steamer, from Towns ville to Cooktown, is a total wreck on Hinchinsbrook Island, fifteen miles from Cardwell. Seventeen passengers and some stowaways were drowned, and six left on the island to go to Cardwell, but there (is no news of their arrival. The vessel is abandoned. The survivors were landed at Townsville by the ' Spunkie,' schooner, after being two days on the island without food.
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Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5770, 25 March 1876, Page 3
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71AUSTRALIAN CABLEGRAMS. BRISBANE, Thursday. Daily Southern Cross, Volume XXXII, Issue 5770, 25 March 1876, Page 3
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