AUSTRALIAN.
+. — [By Electric Telegraph— Copyright.] [Teh Prbss Association^ Melbourne, June 17. His Excellency the Governor presided at a meeting in aid of the survivors of the Light Brigade, and a committee was formed to establish a fund and co-operate with the Balaclava Committee in London. Perth, June 17. Captain Smith, of H.M. schooner Medea, has been fined .£IOO for burning the huts of Indians at Roebuck Bay. The latter had a dispute with the aboriginals over land, and as they refused to leave Captain Smith gave orders for them to be burnt out. Adelaide, June 17. The steamer Yon Yangs struck a reef on Saturday night, but floated off, and afterwards stranded near Cape Ganteban, where she became a total wreck. Those on board left the steamer in three boats. That under thetfiommand of the captain reached Cape Willoughby, forty miles distant, while the second mate was successful in making a landing abreast of tho wreck. The third boat, in charge of the chief officer, with nine men, is missing. __
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume XXXIII, Issue 11663, 18 June 1890, Page 2
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