AUSTRALIAN.

Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 10, 13 January 1881, Page 2

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" THE MISSING AUSTRALIAN EXPLORERS. I DISCOVERY OF LEICHARDT'S DIARY, a THE SERIOUS FIRE IN SYDNEY. I THE LATE MASSACRE OF FRENCH , NATURALISTS. s CHASTISEMENT OF THE NATIVES. f > [reuters telegrams.] i Sydney, 12th Jamiury. 3 Mr. Skupthorpe telegraphs that he has 3 Obtained the journal of Leichardt, the explorer, for his whole trip, and Classan's journal for half his journey. Both are in good<preßervation. ' ' It has transpired that Mr. Bpcket, whose . premises were destroyed by fire laßt night, was absent at the time from Sydney, he i having gone to Shoalhaven. The insurances j comprise :— On the stock— Mercantile Com- | pany, £4000 ; New Zealand Company, £4000; City Mutual, North British, and London and ' Lancashire Companies, each £2000; total, ? £14,000.' On the building-United Company, £6000, half of which was re-insured in • the Viotoria and Australian Alliance Companies. \ Cooktown, 12th January. > The French warship Distrees reports that ' she visited Basilisk Island— the scene of the massacre of the French naturalists— and destroyed a multitude of huts and planta- " tions, but was unable to roach the natives 3 owing to the scrub and rooks. She also p found a large barque wrecked near Brooker ' Island. The boats had left for Sydney or New Caledonia, leaving the captain's wife and some seamen on board. Melbourne, This Day. 5 The Orient Company's etoamship Chim- • borazo, which recently went ashore in Back5 stairs Passage, has arrived here safely. . The Intercolonial Yachting Regatta takes • place in Port Philip on Saturday. For the • Grand Challenge Race, over a fifteen-mile [ bourse, there are seven entries, including the : Taniwha and the Victorian yacht Janet.