Piracy on Board an Australian Ship.
Details have been received of the trial, at Melbourne, Australia, of several parties implicated in boarding of the ship Nelson, and the robbery of nearly ??30,000 gold dust, consigned to the Australian Bank. It is stated in the London papers, that this daring scheme of plunder has drawn the attention of shipowners and merchants to the great risk of loss to which they are exposed by the wholesale desertion of seamen at the Australian ports.
September 24, 1852
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