AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Evening Star, Issue 3354, 19 November 1873, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN SUMMARY.

Melbourne, November 13. New South Wales won the Intercolonial Rifle Match, beating Victoria by 65 points and Now Zealand by 103. The highest scorers for Now Zealand were Small and Christie, 85 each ; for Victoria, Whalley 89, Hannay 88 ; and for Sydney, Freeman 91, Lamb 90. The shooting was, generally, indifferent. The New Zealand men found totally different local conditions to what they had been accustomed ,at the range. The total scores were—Sydney, 1,58 J; Victoria, 1,521 ; New Zealand, 1,483. Don Juan won the Cup in the quickest time recorded and by five lengths. The Arrow was fourth, and Lothair fifth. A protest entered against Romney (?) was dismissed. Fifty thousand were on the course on the Cup day. The bookmakers won largely. Joe Thomson, the bookmaker, has bought the Don for L2,U00. Thomson himself won L 12,000. Parliament will he prorogued next week. The Assembly has adjourned to Monday next, to allow time for the Council to pass the measures. The bakers won the eight hours from their employers. The new Protestant diocese of Ballarat has been created. Dr Perry goes Home to select a bishop. Females are to bo admitted to the University. The Anglican bishop opposed. A clerk in the Land Office has bolted, it is believed to New Zealand, with LIOJJOO o' Government money. Mr Brown, accountant in the Argus office, has committed suicide. The Navigation Board decided that the Anna, bound from Niwcaatlc to Manukau Harbor, was lot on King’s Island through gross incompeteucy. Sydney. Last month’s customs ■ revenue wa“ L 102,000. The new tariff passed through committee unaltered. V o"»l was withdrawn from sale on the 11th : ‘he biddings being below the mark. Fir James Martin has been appointed Chid Justice. Mr L’utler, the Attorucy-Gencial, has seceded from Mr Parkes’s Mini-try. The French war steamer Vir is refitting, iftcr which she goes to Otago. The carpenters at Newcastle struck foeight hours. 'i he Mongol, one of the Californian boats, ’eaves London for Dunedin direct on the 12th December. A rush is spreading to the Manning River listrict, Adelaide. The reports of tho crops are generally favorable. The Gothenburg has returned from Port Darwin with 200 passengers. The Constitution Amendment Bill has been read a third time. Wheat, 5s lOd for old ; 5b for new. Rrlsba ne The Courier and Queenslander were sold for L 13.600. One hundred and fifty-six tons of tin ore reached town last week from the miu»s. 'I he elections are proceeding. The Premier was returned for Port Curtis. Mr Wright, solicit >r, was found strangled. At Port Darwin, a man at Ram (Teeek found thirty ounces of gold, and sold his claim immediately. There is great difficulty still in getting machinery to the reefs.