DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 1319, 20 September 1880, Page 2

DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(retjter's telegram per press association.) Adelaide, September 18. The P. and O. Company's steamer Siam has arrived with the inward Suez mail, which left London on August 13. Sir Hercules Robinson has accepted an invitation to be present at the Adelaide races to be held on September 24. September 20. Tlie Orient Qcvmpany^ Cuzeq has arrived from Plymouth. The Sorata's bapk is broken, the work of pumping has been stopped-. All hope of saving her has been aban' doned. Melbourne, September 20. The Siam, with the inward Suez mails, has arrived here. The weather to-day is fine, and it is expected that there will be a large attendance at the vaee yneeting in honor of Sir Hercules Robinson. Thieves entered Government House yesterday while His Excellency the Marquis of Normanby and his guests were at dinner, and carried off LI 50 worth of jewellery belonging to Lady and Miss Robinsori. It has just been decided (10 a.m.) to postpone the races in honor of Sir Hercules Robinson until Saturday next, owing to the heaviness of the course from recent rains and floods. Brisbane, September 20. The steamer Ripple arrayed from the Solomon Islands 'yesterday morning with only a captain,-three Kanakas, a mate, engineer, steward, and a passenger named William Pense, She brings five wounded Kanakas, one of whom is not expected to recover. The captain reports that while trading at one of the islands with the natives who had come on board, the latter suddenly attacked them. The crew; repelled .the*, assault with difficulty, and killed fifty of the natives.