AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXX, Issue 1350, 17 January 1879, Page 2

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[Reuter's Agency. J Melbourne, Jan. 15. A telegram has been received by the Underwriters' Association that the ship Luch Surat, from Glasgow to Melbourne, was wrecked off the coast of Ireland. It will be remembered that Turn Pearce, who, with Miss Carmichael, were the only survivors from the wreck of the Loch Ard, shipped Home m this vessel. Queensland, Jan. 16. At the firing of & salute by the volunteers on the opening of the Queensland Parliament, a cannon exploded, killing two persons and wounding two. Mr. M'll wraith moved a vote of want of confidence m the Ministry. The debate was adjourned. Bush fire 3 are raging m Gippsland, and a railway-station has been destroyed. At Port Darwin a hundred and sixty Chinese landed from Hong Kong. At Sydney, the captain of the immigrant ship Hereford has been fined £500 for neglecting to have a water apparatus. At Father Cliiniquay's lecture at Mudgee, an alarm of fire was raised and a general stampede ensued. It turned out to be a hoax, and, fortunately, no casuality occurred. Mr Augustus Morris has accepted the Secretaryship of the Exhibition.

Sydney, Jan. 16. Montgomery was committed for trial for stealing from the Government House a quantity of jewellery, and on several other charges. The new st^am launch Lillie Denharn, valued at £1800, was burned this morning. The owners of the immigrant ship Herefore were fined £500 f >r a breach of the regulations regarding the water supply.