AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XIII, Issue 3633, 22 June 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

y Sydney, Monday. ■ ■/x'Tifevs to ; ;hand from New Guinea ,y~' state that the natives on the west'of the island had attacked a number of villages on the coast, and had killed and eaten sixty'women whom they had captured. / ."\l</ : : 'i Cooktown, Monday. • News has been received that the steamer Corea ran ashore onOlaremont Island, but got off the same night and was beached. She has sustained great , damage.. The missionary sohooner Mlaugowen has arrived here, and.brings five of the Ohaodernagore party from Nm Ireland; they state that the'vessel left Antwerp secretly, and used flags of all nationalities occasionally on the voyage. Sixty men below on a penalty of being Jlis'. They arrived at Laughlan Island on January 10, and fifty days afterwards the provisions.were exhausted, and they bartered their clothes for food with the natives of Woodlarn Island. The men repeat the account previously received of the deplorable sufferings endured by the 'party. The relief schooner Wily, which was despatched from Sydney with stores transhipped from the Ohandernagore, called at New Ireland on May Ist, but only stayed two hours, and landed nothing but a bag of biscuits, and a few pounds of pork, and one pound of tobacco. The men further denounco -the perfidy of the Colonisation scheme, and say that., the whole affair is a fraud. WRECK 01? THE S.S. WANGANUL bYDNEY, Monday. ThcsteamerWanganui has been wrecked at Clarence Heads, and sunk after striking the reef. All lives have been saved, except two of the crew. She is insured for £3500 in the National OfEce, in New Zealand, and re-insured for £3000. She belonged to H. Houghton, of Dunedin, and was commanded by Captain Bayldon, Who brought her from New Zealand. THE COAL TAX. A meeting has been held at Walsend, at which speeches were made .denouncing (he proposed coal lax,