There has been much adventure, or rather mis-adventure in the Australian shipping world recently. The Cooma, a well known coastal vessel ran foul of the Barrier Reef, the coast of Northern Queentland, fast stuck in the coral. Here, fan endeavour is being made to save her cargo, but the Captain ex-Ferienced much trouble in getting his crow to do the salvage work. The vessel is considered a oral loss, and impossible to save, exposed, as she is, to the weather on the ocean Side, More spectacular, and ecrtainly of more danger to the crew was tke incident to the little oil trader, Koorinza, which sailed from Melbourne for Tasmania Inden with ben. zine—0000 eases under the hatche and 50 drums of oil on the decks Her registered tonnage was £09, and she was manned by a crew of 12, under a Captain Kinch. Leaving port at noon, she passed out of Port Phillip in safety at, about 3 pam. Not being fitted with wireless, nothing was heard of the Koo-ringe till six hours later a report from the Kooyong reached the Navigation Department that it was [proceeding to a conflagration whith: appeared neat the Victorian coast: Nearing the scene of the blaze, the crew of the Kooyong made out th form of the little Kooringa lit by gigantic display of flame, and later in the glaring light discriéd the unfortunate crew, almost naked to @ man, endeavouring to kee themselves afloat in a battered life boat dev tually, the unfortunate men were brought on board the Kooyong. Not without difficulty in four cases, who were men first badly burned, Jand then tortured by the cold, and the salt water on their injuries The Kooyong then reported rescue, and called for a doctor to meet them at Queenscliff, by the "Rip" or passage into Port Phillip Bay. One of the injured men was [declared too ill to be removed to Queonseliff hospital, ws was at frst intended, so all the' crew proceeded with the Kooyong to Melbourne in charge of the Queenscliff medical man' Four men remained in hospital in Melbourne for treatment, and {two are still on the critical list.
With the exception of one of them the crew have lost everything: The clothes they were wearing had been burned off their backs while they were endeavouring to launch a life bent. Their first attempt only resulting in smashed and splintered remnant of cent delayed them on ithe burning deck, and a lad rushed {into the third officer's cabin, grab bed a thick cent. He did not know it, but there was a small roll of notes in it, and they constitute, with the cent, all that is salvaged from the little Kooringa. No sign Jof her has been seen by subsequent ships passing that roa Darwin's Deportation Efforts Judging by figures, which have for year shown on excess of emigration over immigration until quite recently the casual Iayman would expect the powers that be in Darwin to strongly favour keeping every person who enters their capital, Not s0, however, has it been proved. A year or 40 ago, it was the fashion to deport all those who came from {the South with authorization to look after official affairs, This tendency was looked, into by the Federal Government, and it was intimated that such symptoms would be trent. pone cho me ancy the Dae ans then pursued prohibited immigrants and alleged smugglers of opium, On the last count the score went very much against Darwin, Jand cost them n pretty penny in a Tw suit which they lost, The newest pastime of the northern metropolis is to find out if men born in Darwin can be turned into immigrants, Tke authorities there have issued warrants under the Federal Immigration Acts of 1901- 1025 detaining King Won and Wah Jon, both born in Australia, of [Chinese parents King Won in Dar jwin itself in 1803, They left Australia about 1902 and King Won did not return until 1024, white Wab JOn was also away a very consider Joblo time. Now the question raised whether a man is a native of the country he is born in or not? The stipendiary magistrate of the metropolitan district in Sydney said, Yes. But Darwin has been dull, and'so the question is raised all over again when the unfortunates visit the town of their birth. The defendants legal advisor produces come seven sworn affidavits as to entity, and a birth certificate issued by a former registrar and Police Inspector. High Court desi sions are well to the fore in quotations of definition, and all that is wanted in our friend Gilbert with his flair for "Lord High Execu.ioners." Darwin will not need a first lass vaudeville for many a day, fit continues to supply such raft: ling good comedies free of cost to their public. Of course if the leases are always lost, the Federal {taxpayers won't be pleased, but they Jare a few miles away.
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