AUSTRALIA.

Akaroa Mail and Banks Peninsula Advertiser, Volume V, Issue 424, 13 August 1880, Page 3

AUSTRALIA.

Melbourkb, August 12.

The following are the Adelaide acceptances for the Melbourne Cup:— •Damwell, Banker, Eivalry, Wandering Jew, Rothschild, Pawnbroker, Rita and Total isator. Ned Kelly has been committed for trial on October 1,4.,, / , y. Advices jfros*. Home State that arrangements have been made for a match between the Australians and an All-Eng-land Eleyen r , |O I ! |\/i \Jf 9 W * ' " (from the lyttelton times). '

; ) I ri i pdjffi* August 9, **Mr Gla'dsiomfiias gone to Windsor as the guest of-the- Dean, not of *the Q u «>n. . ' ♦, -.-v. A L ' toV\ v.\ ";. ■■■■•'• : August 10. A Intelligence-, has;been,'.received that two .members of the Belgian Expedition, now exploring in have been murdered "by the natives. ,' ' In , the House of Commons '-to-day the ''Marquis" of Hartington,; ; iOf State for India, -replying to./certain remarks which had /been"' made regarding the evacuation of CaßuV'defended the withdrawal of the British,'troops from that city. He said,it was not now ■of any political importance "that, troops should vi renjiaiu u i'therey ■■' 'and■ : General StewarV^a^. } fuljLy.icpnfiuttedin tho pro* posal to remove them. Calcutta, August ..IQ. .... s sii|e%ane§ has* Been deceived "from Candahar to August 6. General Primrose reports that the citadel is in a complete state of defence, and is provisioned for 25 days. Ayoub Khan, with the bulk of his army, is encamped at tlokoran,- near Candahar.