INTERCOLONIAL.
[Bv Electric Telegraph—CoryßiGiiT.]
Per Press joiation.)
SYDNEY, August 5,
The captain of the barque Excelsior reports a terrific passage. He never expected to reach port. The deck cargo was thrown overboard to lighten the vessel. She put in at Norfolk Island for provisions, and encountered a terrible gale after leaving there, the vessel being strained so heavily that it took the pumps all their time to keep the water out. Richards’s store at Narrandera has been burned, the damage being over £IO,OOO, MELBOURNE, August 5.
It took nearly six hours to completely decipher the messages scratched on the cans of the El Dorado miners. All the men, as well as 'Dawkins, wrote brief pathetic messages). BRISBANE, August 5.
Mr M. Davitt, speaking at Rockhampton, promised the support of the Irish mem bers for the objects of the Queensland Separation League.
ADELAIDE, August 5. Lyon, the Wellington (S.A.) murderer, has died in the lunatic asylum. THURSDAY ISLAND, August 5.
There is an agitation amongst the Japanese residents against a further influx of their own countrymen. They consider that the result will be a reduction of the wages of those already in the country, besides increasing the antagonism of Europeans against the Japanese.
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Evening Star, Issue 9776, 5 August 1895, Page 2
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202INTERCOLONIAL. Evening Star, Issue 9776, 5 August 1895, Page 2
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