MELBOURNE.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3568, 15 December 1882, Page 3

MELBOURNE.

December 14.

All the bodies of those who lost their lives in the Australasian mine were found in the vicinity of the survivors, and have been recovered. Manley, one of the nurvivors, states that the majority dropped down-- from exhaustion, and were suffocated by the foul air or drowned. Kirk is suffering from congestion of the lungs, and is in a critical condition. The distress of the relations of the deceased miners was increased by the groundless report that all had been saved. A subscription list has been opened for the widows and orphans. 4 At their wool sale to-day the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company (limited) offered 2900 bales. The sale was well attended, and competition was animated at full prices. 2500 bales were sold at satisfactory prices. Good qualities are a shade firmer. December 15.

The survivors from the Australasian mine state that some.of their mates died some time before the rescue party arrived. The deceased men have left seventeen widows, and fully one hundred orphans, and there is a general and spontaneous movement througbont the colony to raise subscriptions for their relief. Kirk, one of the survivors, who was in a critical state when rescued, is now better.

In the Legislative Assembly last night Mr Munro's motion for the appointment of a select committee to report upon tbe railway administration, which was treated by the Goveroment as a vote of want of confidence, was, after further debate, negatived on a division by 44 to 33 votes.