TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Globe, 30 December 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

{Per Press Agency,') LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. ■ ♦ W [By Submarine Oable.J w THE CRICKET MATCH. Melbourne, December 29th. The Victorians completed their innings for a total of 190. Midwinter made 41, Horan 34. Up to the luncheon hour four English wickets were down for 75 runs, Ullyett, Armitage, Selby, and Emmett making double figures. The Englishmen scored 135. 4Selby topped the score with thirty-two, Victorians second innings—Five best wickets down for three runs. Briseis is still favorite for the Champion race, ' * COMMERCIAL. Sydney, December 29th. There is little alteration of consequence. According to Mauritius advices sugars have advanced by 20a to 40s, and are still advancing. Breadstuffs are quiet. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, December 29. Fat cattle, 26s to 29s perlOOlbs ; mutton, 2d to 2jd per lb for good quality; lambs, 8s 6d to ios6d choice, J2s 8d to 14s, Adelaide £l6 ; sharps, M ; brfin, £7 ; oatmeal, £l4 ; bacon and hams, 8d to lOd ; cheese, none ; barley, 3s 6d. . , At the Harbor Board meeting to-day a ‘copy of a letter to the Government was read, praying that the time of the arrival of the mail steamer be altered so as not to fall on Sunday.. M . rj i - Auckland, December 30. The Australia and City of i Sydney arrived this morning. The Australia is quarantined | a passenger having died of small-pox yesterday.: The City of; (Sydney will proceed to Sydney after the marls ferom the Australia are transhipped. The : Southern mails will be sent on by the Taupe, to day. . • Jare Cross, states the companyTost '£(p3o and that there no possibility of broking the two iin

sion Mr D»-’^ >.£ \%f- 'V’V the Mia« It is Chief Lands Board, Otago. A man named, drowned yesterday while (j From a correspondent of the Press,) Tim ABU, December 20. A brutal assault'was committed here last night, A man named .Patrick Oallaghan went to a tent on the ’■ beach in which a woman named Mary Ann Greaves and a man, John Patrick Davis, lived.. A quarrel took place, and at the. request of the woman Davis endeavored to put Callaghan out. Oallaghan resisted, and beat Davis about the head with a of wood studded with nails, making twelve gashes in his lace, breaking his jaw, and cutting his upper lip almost from ear to ear. The woman gave information to the police at once, but the assailant was not captured till this afternoon. Davis, when found by the police, was in a dying itate, and little hopes are entertained of his recovery. - -