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Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1937, 19 March 1875, Page 2

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PER. MIKADO FROM SYDNEY. I . Sydney, March 12, Six candidates are contesting the seat of the late Speaker. The steamer Helen Macgregor, 300 tons, has been wrecked while bound from Sydney to Grafton, by running on a reef. Most of. the passengers and crew were taken off, but one boat was capsized and eigth occupants drowned. , .The.Premier promise?.. £o,OOQ towards represeiitation at Philadelphia. ;Qjueensland will act in concert/ v A cricket match, Sydney v. Victoria, resulted in favour of Sydney by 77 run 3. Mr McKay, of Sydney, is fitting out a scientific exploring expedition 'to New Guinea at his own cost. ,- The London correspondent of the Herald, writing via, Suez on the 22nd January, says :^" Speaking of visitors to England, I am reminded to mention the arrival of the Hon. Julius Vogel, the energetic Premier of Zealand. He arrived via Brindisi with his family by the last overland mail, but it was in Italy I met him. His family were travelling in a sleeping carriage from Bologna to Turin, and were involved in a collision at Asti station, which would have been very serious, had not the train been slackening speed. -„ I was in the next carriage, and wa^uddenly awakened at 7 o'clock in the morning by-finding myself flung upon the floor amid the crashing of timber and broken glass. Although the compartment was crushed in, nobody was hurt; indeed the injury was confined to the; guard and to the rolling stock. Mr Vogel's family, with myself andfothers, were detained in Turin in consequence of the accident." Melboubnej March 12th. The Postmaster-General of New South Wales made an agreement with the Post-master-General of Victoria, subject to ratification by the two Governments, respecting the mail services. They propose to make the Suez and San Francisco services alternate as soon as possible. Victoria will give every facility in its power for the rapid transmission of the Suez mails from Melbourne to Sydney, overland or coastwise, as New J3outh Wales chooses, and corresponding; 'facilities are to be to Melbourse by Sydney. The postmasters farther [agree to establish a telegraphic money order system between the colonies. ?, f A public meeting in. the Town Hall decided on a Gothenburg relief.fund.

Twenty-six families are known to be left destitute. McMeckan, Blackwood, and Co. headed the list with £100. ' '

Mrs Black, wife of a bailiff at Wentworth, obtained a verdict 0f,£4&0 against the Government for injuries sustained by her at the Spencer street railway station. Melbourne ilaces,—Hurdle Race: Welshman, 1; Gunter. 2. Ascot Vale Stakes ; Maid of All Work, 1; Pointer, 2. St. Ledger; Melbourne, 1; Stockbridge, 2. Visitors' Stakes : Cyclops, 1; Sheriff, 2. Hopeful Stakes: Edith, 1; Caoutchouc, 2. Sires Produce: Maid of All Works, 1; Canterbury, 2. Hospital Stakes : Newbold, 1; Imperial) 2. Hurdle Bace: W. F. 1; Sir William Don, 2. £100 Plate : Poodle, 1; Prince, 2. Brunswick Stakes, a sweep of 5 soys, and 150 soys. added, was won by Calumny, Bst, with Lurline, Bst 101b, second; eight others were behind. The Keilor Stakes was won by Light Dray, 3 yrs, 7st 111b ; Lurline, 5 yrs, lOst 31b, second. It was a fine race, won by a head. The Australian Cup, a sweep of 20 soys, with 300 soys added, was won easily by Lurline, Bst lib, by two lengths from Wollomai, 5 yrs, 7sfc 71b, second; Benjiroo, 6 yrs, 7st, third. Melbourne ran, and was a great favourite, but could not act in the heavy ground. Time: 4min 25sec. Brisbane, March 12th.

Telegrams from Townsville and Bowen, dated 10th instant, have been received. They hold out no hopes of the recovery of the occupants of tne missing boats of the Gothenburg.. The starboard lifeboat when last.seen;was in a very bad state, with her stern, torn out. The occupants were naked, and without sails. or oars, provisions or water, tnd it is concluded that they could not possibly have survived. The Gothenburg is lying in three fathoms of water, with a. strong list to port, and her back broken. It is expected she would break up if the weather became bad. A diver recovered the gold on board, and it has been claimed !bjr: the Collector ,of Customs as the receiver of wrecks. The diver when below getting the gold saw the bodies of two females from the hatchway of the cabin, but failed to approach 1 them for want of sufficient air in the tubing. He caught two sharks, in the stomach of one of which were a human skull and some bones, and in the stomach of the other he found bones and apparel. He forwarded the bones to Brisbane. The crew of the Bunyip found £250 in a belt on one of the corpses floating near the wreck of the Gothenburg. The body was too decomposed to identify. The money was handed to the of Customs at Townsville.

Adelaide, March 12th. . At a large representative meeting, in aid" of a Gothenburg relief fund, £500 was promised. Mr G. F. Argus. gives £200.