AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
(from: our own correspondent.) (Continued from our last.) The Leichardt Search Expedition has returned to Wallumbillah, Queensland, the whole party being broken up, having narrowly escaped perishing from drought at Cooper’s Creek. Twelve camels and all the horses died; but it is intended to make another attempt. The race for the Champion Cup came off on Ist inst., in-the presence of some 30,000 spectators. The field was a fine one, comprising all the choice horses from New South Wales, Tasmania, and Victoria; there was not an indifferent horse in the lot. Panic stood first favorite in betting up to the last. The run was splendid ; two New South Wales Horses came in first, Tarragon and Volunteer running a dead heat. At the conclusion of the day’s programme, they ran once round the course for the championship, and Tarragon, the Sydney favorite, beat Volunteer by a neck. It was, without exception, one one of the finest races ever run in Victoria, and created a considerable deal of excitement. The intercolonial cricket match between the New South Wales and Victorian Elevens resulted in an easy victory for the Victorians, they beating their oponents in one innings, with a good score to the good. A single-wicket match was afterwards got up, in which the Australian Welshmen were victorious.
Amusements have been tolerably plentiful, although not quite so many as we usually have at this festive season. At the Koyal the Lyster Troupe are again in possession of the boards. Their -opening opera was poor Weber’s last, “Oberon,” but the}'- were , hardly equal to it. Since then they have reproduced the old role, and are how promising something new. The attendance, considering the want of novelty, has been exceedingly good. At the Haymarket, Mr Hoskins has been delighting the public with a good old-fashioned pantomine—“ Baron Munchausen ; ” and as it is the only pantomime of the season, and remarkably well mounted, it has, of course, attracted largely. At the Princess’s, Mr Simmonds is working up burlesque and modern drama, with the aid of Miss Cleveland. Messrs Lambert and Charles Young are giving an entertainment, something in the Emma Stanley style, at the Polytechnic Hall. They are remarkably clever and funny in it, and have received a fair share of our pleasureseekers’ patronage. Via Sydney, we are in receipt of news from London up to 12th November. The Shenandoah had put into Liverpool, and surrendered to the British Government. The Captain and Crew had been handed over to the American Consul, and sent to California for trial (?).
The French Government are prosecuting the Opinion Nationale newspaper for publishing the Mexican war news.
Public meetings have been held in Paris and Manchester to raise funds to aid the Emancipated Negroes.
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Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 846, 22 January 1866, Page 2
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456AUSTRALIAN NEWS. Evening Star, Volume III, Issue 846, 22 January 1866, Page 2
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