TELEGRAMS.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1411, 22 December 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAMS.

fPBR PRESS ASSOCIATION.] The Auckland CricketersAuckland, To-day.

' The Auckland cricket team will leave 1 Onebunga by the Hawea to-morrow. It ; is very uncertain eVen now who will form the team, but it will probably be : Meters W. G. Barton, D. Lynch, W. Robinson,-6. W. Ocxon, C. McCormick, 0. S. Stafford, B. Mills, J. Testro, Wm. Meldrum/G. P. Ewing and H. Kittling. Three‘ matches are to be played, one agUnst the Canterbury Interprovincial teSmand due against Dunedin, and one pgaipst' Wellington. Robinson is managing the trip. As the team is a weak one, Arneil, Beeves, Dewes, Blair, Buckland, Yates and the Lankbam’s being unable to leave, it is felt that the Association acted wisely in refusing to give it the status of a representative team. A prominent cricketer says that he could pick an eleven (o beat Robinson’s team. Attempted Suicide. Hugh McCulloch, a gum digger, at I tempted to commit suicide by stabbing himself in the abdomen at Northern Wairoa. He was found with his entrails protrading, and is not likely to recover. He bad been drinking for months, and had previously attempted suicide by hang- * g * RewardWellington, To day. T{)e Government intend to re-gazette the proclamation offering rewards for* the discovery of goldfields in the colony. The Government also intend to place on the Estimates next session 1500, for the purpose of removing snags and otherwise improving *he navigation of the Mokau river. Death. Lovelace, the man injured on the steamerHawea, died last night. Dunedin/ To-day. A dwellinghouse of* James Johnston, at Roelyat wss burned dbwn this morning. - The building was insured in the Equitable for L2OO, and the furniture in the National for LEXI.