LATEST TELEGRAMS.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume I, Issue 52, 16 January 1877, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[Special to the Mail.]

Christchubch, January 15

The Intel-provincial cricket match is exciting considerable interest. It is expected to be very close. The Canterbury team is in a better position than was expected two days ago. Coop and Leach, both faultless batsmen, will now be able to play, but Baker, Firth, and Goldby, all good men, cannot. Fuller, one of our best bowlers, became ill with low fever on Saturday, and is a serious loss to the team, which is weak in the bowling department. H. W. Moore, who up to yesterday declined to play, ir expected to take Fuller's place. He is considered one of the best all-round cricketers in Canterbury. At present Canterbury is the favourite, but no odds are offered.

Harvesting has commenced on every side, with every promise of a good yield per acre. Much more ground is under cereals than last year. Fortunately the weather is now clearing. Nelson, January 15. Boats are out practising regularly, and the harbour affords a pretty sight, which attracts large numbers of people. Dolly Varden is still the favourite, though slightly receding in the betting. At excavation for wharf, a man named Brown was killed this afternoon by a fall of earth. Curtis and Sharpe address their constitutients this evening.

[Per Submarine Cable.] London, January 12. At Thursday's sitting of Conference, Turkish delegates persisted in the rejection of proposals. The German delegates expressed opinion that further concession towards Turkey would be impossible. The Turks have not presented any new scheme. It is probable that conference on behalf of European powers will make final communication to Porte on Monday. Australian mails via Brindisi were delivered in London to-day. Wool, inactive, but prices sustained. Sydney, January 15. Another small-pox patient is dead.