CABLEGRAMS.

Patea Mail, Volume II, Issue 105, 12 April 1876, Page 2

CABLEGRAMS.

(From the Wanganui Chronicle'). AUSTRALIAN. SYDNEY. April 8. The quarter’s revenue shows an iucreas e of £209,000. Suez mail arrived at Adelaide. A steamer bound from Jeddah, with 400 pilgrims on hoard, has been wrecked. Only 13 lives saved.

.FOBEIG N. further tidings of the ship STRATHMORE. CEYLON. ' V ' March 17. The arrival at Galle of survivors of the Strathmore created a sensation. Relief and assistance was at once obtained for them ; they are mostly seamen. English and Ceylon Governments appealed about sending passengers to New Zealand. When out 74 days the Strathmore ran on rocks at night. About 44 persons were drowned . the remainder lived seven months on a barren island, on which fortunately there was one good spring ; they lived on sea birds and eggs. Several vessels passed, but failed to see signals. When saved by flic American whaler they were in a very destitute and emaciated state,with scarcely a rag on them. The Sierra Moreno, which took half of those saved from the American vessel, arrived at Galle to-day. According to last account, 24 were on the whalerFurther particulars state that 49 people were saved. Two died on the island three died afterwards from being frost-bitten in the feet, their toes rotting off. The island was half a bare rock ; fuel was’ obtained from birds feathers. Hardly anything was saved from the wreck ; the boats were lost the first night, the rocks being perpendicular. Saved, on board the Sierra Morena —• G. Brittenshaw, D. Wilson, John Pirio, Walter Smith, John Smith, John Wilson, J. Knight, R. Lonnie, F. Benley, Spencer, Jos'.in. C. Cioslie, Win. Rooke, Geo. Ward, Geo. Kiddorc, F. Stondhing-, Robert and William Wilson. Left American whaler— Mr and Mrs Wordsworth, Messrs Walker, J. Leak, J. Fitzmaurice, F. Tookey, J. Blackmore, H. Turner, F. Carmichael, E. Preston, E. K. Jackson, H. Keith, J. Nichol, J. Luck, J. Evans, J. Warren, J. Staworth, H. Erickson. Also a number of seamen.