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Marlborough Press, Volume XXI, Issue 1249, 19 November 1880, Page 3

Mike McColl, the heavy weight champion of America, ha* been drowned from a Mis»is»ippi river steamer. A special train of cars with the September Australian mail chased the regular train and caught it at Omaha, gaining 24 hours, and enabling connection with the steamer at New York to be made. The mail will thus reach England in 40 days from Sydney. Captain Foreman, of the British ship Adieu, arriving at San Francisco, from Newcastle, New South Wales, October, 9, reports that on Sept. 15 he passed Christmas Island, said to be uninhabited, and from the deck discovered the wreck of a vessel well up on the sand in South-East Bay. _ Close to the wreck he made out a small hut, but there wore no indications of life about it. Owing to the very rough weather ho was unable to land, so the wreck and hut remain a mystery. An Lee was executed at Dunedin, at 8 o’clock on Friday week, for the Kyeburn murder. He was visited during the night by Bishop Neville, Rev. Mr Byng, and the Rev. Mr Torrence. the'gao) chaplain. The convict expressed his thankfulness at having religious consolation so frequently administered to him. When he was on the scaffold, immediately before the white cap was put on him, the gaol chaplain asked him whether he wished to say anything, and if he killed Mrs Young. Ah Lee answered firmly, “Me no killee Missee Young,” and he was throughout exceedingly calm. Death was instantaneous.