COLONIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVIII, Issue 6212, 14 October 1881, Page 5

COLONIAL NEWS.

SMALL-POX PATIENTS. Melbourne, October 13. All the small-pox patients in quarantine are making satisfactory progress towards recovery. STALE NEWS. Melbourne, October 13. Information is to hand from the Fiji Islands announcing that the Detached Squadron sailed for Yokohama, Japan, on the 15th September, en route for England ; all well. VICTORIAN NEWS. Melboubne, October 13. Messrs. Goldsborough's wool sales opened here yesterday. There was a good attendance of home and foreign buyers, and there was a good competition. Copious rain is now falling throughout Victoria. The embezzlement of £8000 by two clerks in the employ of Messrs. Keantiernar and Co., has been discovered. The books of the firm have been falsified by the defrauders, who have absconded. THE WRECK OF THE S. S. BRISBANE. Port Darwin, October 13. The mails and passengers of the steamer Brisbane have been landed here, but the vessel is still on the reef. SHIPPING. Sydney, October 13. Arrived, yesterday evening: The Union Company's Steamship Hero, from New Zealand. Melbourne, October 13. Arrived, this morning: The Union Company's steamship Arawata, from the Bluff. Sailed, yesterday afternoon: The Union Company's steamship Rotomahana, for the Bluff.