AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 1342, 8 January 1879, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

sounded the pumps, and found nearly four < feet of water. The vessel graduully fettled i down. At six o'clock they found they , i could ne-'ther fet-h the beiuh nor } Kiehmond, and as the water was still ; gaming, took to thi boat*, but stood by ihe j ship till 7 o'clock, when she canted over on j her Bid.-, and went down head foremost The La Perous,- was nearly a new yes-el built a.d j owned by Mr Culiane, of Jervis Bay. She ', wa-< insured m Metcalfe's office. " j Th« Kelly sang are still at larze, but hnve ' b->en seen near Alextndru. There is much j dicsaiisfactum with the police fore..'. Ihe ■ latest ab ut the Mansfield murderers is that ' they are understood to be resolved up. n > making an attack or. the Beeehworlh gaol, for i the purpose of liberating s>o»e of their ivn- ! prisoned friends Precautions have been 1 taken by sending up inoru of the garrison of j the defence force j About 45,600 immigrants have been introduced into South Australia m 1878. The fate of Mr Wooley anl Mr Fane, of Melbourne, who were lost m the West AusI tralian bush, eeesaa to be certain. The camp I his been found at which thi-y turned their ' horses loose and abandoned their saddles and equipments and stores. They seem to have wandered from the camp on foot, and their ' case is feared to be hopeless.

(Pee City of New Tobk at Auckland.)

Melbotjene, Jan. 1. At Gardner's sale of cattle, Matilda was bought for New Zealand at 100 guineas. In the Victorian Midsummer Handicap for three-year-olds, Aconite was Ist, Drummajor 2nd, and Savanaka 3rd. For the Champion Stakes, Vulcan did the running tor the first mile, and then fell back- Calamin and Roodee were well up at the finish. Wellington took the lend from Vulcan, and was never headfd the whole way. The schooner St. Ki'da collided with tlie barquentine Seagull off Wilson's Promontory. The latter was abandoned, and her crew taken on by the St. Kilda. Sydney, Jan- 1. A disastrous fire occurred at Parks. Eleven buildings were totally demolished, including the Commercial Bank. The damage is estimated at£7O,OuO. BiiTTFP, Jan. 7. The following item's are by the Bingarooma: — A telegram from Brisbane says the unauthorised landing of 300 Chinese on Thursday Island makes the A S.N. Company liable to a fine of £50 per head under the Ch'nese Immigration Act. John Bajo, while acting as umpire m a cricket match, was struck by a ball under the left par and fell down, and died instantly. i The ptenmer Platypus arrived at Sydney on 1 January Ist, wi h the crew and officers of the ( ship LaPeroase. The Captain reports that i he cleared Cl-irence Heads on tt.e 26th De- 1 cembt-r with ba<-k pile*, bound for Lyttelton. Apparently all was well, and nothing of note ] occurred until about half-past two when the ( water was n j'iced washing m, and on sounding the pumps they found nearly 2ft 6in m 1 the hold. The crew imm-diately commenced t hard pumping, but the water still gained, four \ inches being made m half an hour. At four \ 1 o'clock] kept the ship away, hoping to reach 1 the Richmond bar. At fire o'clock again f