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Show IiHuMtrou.H Hurrkaue, San Francisco, 23. Per the steamer Australia, it is leorued that a hurricane awept over the Friendly Islands on March 6tb. The Roman Catholic chapel, Wealeyan parsonage, the English consulate, goverument warehouses, many business buildings aud two-tnirds of tho dwellings were razed to the ground. The cocoa nut crop is destroyed. Tho bark Queensland, Queens-land, forly two days out Irom Newcastle, New-castle, Austra'i., for Auckland, ia feared to be lost with all hands. |