FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 2764, 2 August 1883, Page 2

FOREIGN & COLONIAL TELEGRAMS.

AUSTRALIAN CABLE,

[Per Electric Telegraph— Copyriobt.] [Rectrr's Aoenot. | (Reoeived 12.50 p.m., August Ist.] Albany, July 31. Armed, last evening — P. and 0. steamship Australia, with the inward Suez mail. Hobart, July 31. Several shocks of earthquake were felt to-day at Branxholrae, in tho north-east of this colony. Melbourne, Aug. 1. The report that some of the Phcenix Park informers have arrived in Western Australia is generally doubted here. [Received 2.15 p.m., Aug. lat.] Arrived, thia morning — Te An&u, from Bluff. Sailed, this morning — Manapouri, for Bluff. Albany, Aug. 1. The summary of English news by the Suez mail dated London, June 29th, gives particulars of the collision botween the ships Huruuui and Waitara in the English Channel on the 23rd June. The catastrophe was remarkable for its awful suddenness to both ves'sols. The Waitara sank, at the longest estimate, in four minutes. The momentary interlocking of the yards of tho two vessels enabled sixteen from the Waitara to clamber aboard the HurunuS, otherwise all on the former vessel would have perished. No steerage passengers were saved. The Waitara was engulfed before any boat could be launched from her.