LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
SYDNEY. March 25. Connor and party, with black trackers, returned to Benalla after a long and fruitless search in the ranges. One of the trackers died from inflammation of the lungs. A large party of police, -with black trackers haee left Mansfield. Their destination is said to be the Woombal ranges. There is suspicion that the Kellys are in the vicinity of Kerang. A very disorderly meeting of the profession was called in reference to the position assumed by Dr. Beaney in England. A resolution was passed repudiating Dr. Beaney. During the evening Dr. Blair, who strongly defended Beaney, was turned out. At New Guinea fifteen out of twenty men with their wives and children, who landed there by the John Williams, have already died through poison and fever. Thebarqne Manfred, of North Shields, foundered at the Lacepedes in a hurricane on January 24. The crew reached Cossack in a Government cutter. The whaleship Runnymede also went ashore at Browse Island in the same gale. It is rumoured that other vessels went ashore. The hurricane was felt severely at Roebourne, and several houses unroofed. Vivash, Lockyer, Stuart, and Clarkson lost together about 200 sheep.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 665, 1 April 1879, Page 2
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