AUSTRALIA.
"S> - (PER PRESS ASSOCIATION'S SPECIAL WIRE.) MELBOURNE, Jan. 15. Three prisoners escaped from Williamstown Gaol by forcing the casement. In the match between the Canterbury team versus the Bohemians, Canterbury made 187 in their first innings. The Bohemians in their first innings have scored 162 with two wickets down. BRISBANE, Jan. 15. The Queensland Parliament met yesterday. Mr King was elected Speaker. The members of the Queensland Exploring Expedition have reached Powell's Creek, South Australia. They lived on game latterly, and were unable to cross the dry swamps. Three horses were killed in the attempt, and the party were relieved .just in time by the occurrence of a thunderstorm. The New Caledonia insurrection is languishing. Two tribes surrendered, and were sent to the Isle of Pines. Daly, master of the Heather Bell, has been arrested, ' and his vessel ordered to Fiji by the High Court of Commission.
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Southland Times, Issue 3299, 16 January 1879, Page 2
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148AUSTRALIA. Southland Times, Issue 3299, 16 January 1879, Page 2
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