AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 33, 4 January 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(BY ELECTRIC XELKGBAPH — COPYBIGHT.) (REUTEIt'S TKLJIGRAMS. ) Melbourne, Jan. 3. The proprietor of one of tlie totalisiv* tors on the Champion Race ha 3 abs.coutled. Two thousaud pounds are owing to winuers. The police decline to ins terfere m the matter. Melbourne papers agree that the Englishmen's display of cricket m the recent match was disappointing, and all express the opinion that the team was beaten on its merits. Fifty thousand parsons paid for admission during the three day's play. The various Victorian Gold Mining Companies during the past year paid dividends to the amount of £863,000, being a large increase on the previous year. Quartz mineß paid £565,000, and alluvial, £298,000. Sydney, Jan. 3. The new parliament was opened to* day. Mr E. Barton, one of the members for East Sydney, was elected Speaker, the election of Sir G. W. Allen being negatived by the Opposition by 51 votes to 47. Sir Henry Parkes announced that the Ministry had tendered their resignation to his Excellency the Governor. It is expected that Mr Alexander Stuart will be summoned by Lord Loftus and chared with the formation of a new Ministry. Melbourne, Jan. 3. . Sailed, this evening — Union Company's steamship Arawata, for the Bluff.