INTERCOLONIAL.

Lake County Press, Volume VII, Issue 384, 19 September 1878, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL.

\ • Sydney, September 12th. " 'The A.S.N. Company's City of Newcastle, from Sydney to Newcastle, was stranded near Newcastle this morning. The weather was fine, but there waa a dense fog. No lives were lost The vessel is expected to become a total wreck. H.M.S. Wolverine returned from Noumea this afternoon. She reports that the French soldiers have been victorious everywhere. No quarter was shown to the rebels. Baptiste and Atai the great rebel chiefs, were captured and decapitated, their heads being exhibited in Noumea Cooktown, September 12tb. Mr Chalmers and Mr Chester have returned from their voyage into the interior of New Guinea.. They report the country to be splendid, and thickly inhabited by an intelligent race. They found extensive villages, hosts of pigs, nuge forests, and cocoanufcs plentiful. The natives were friendly, and use the language as those on the coast. There is a fine lake inland. Sydney, September 14.—The Johan Gaezar, just arrived from New Britain, Sports that five of the Wesleyan Native

missionaries there have been, massacred with spears and clubs by the bush natives at a spot ten miles- from the Mahcolo Coast. The Rev. George Beowd, iq- conjunction with tbe traders and Coast natives attacked the murderous tribes, asd a severe fight, lasting the whole day;, resulted, in a large number of the latter being killed and their leavingbetween seventy, and a hundred wounded on the scene of the fight Another attack has been made by the Duke of: York islanders on the German traders there. Prank Kerwin, a Sydney trader,, was murdered, and two other Europeans (whose names are not given) have died from their wounds. Iu a subsequent attack by the Germans three natives were kiiledt. Sydney, September 11.—The grain trade is unhinged owing to three successive failures. Sydney, September 13.—Trickett and Rush are arranging another match for the championship, to be rowed with, fixed seats. Eighteen populous villages and teD rivers have been discovered in the interior of New Guinea. Brisbane, September 13.—Mr Chester, Government agent, telegraphs that he has crossed New Guinea. He found six rivers and a number of villages. The natives are cannibals, but friendly, and the country, fertile. Ebony was also found.