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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 17, 19 July 1884, Page 3

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Special to "Star." (REtTTER's TELEGRAMS.) Received July 19, 1.40 p.m. London, July 18. ' The cricket match Australian v Mid- > dies *x was. concluded to-day on the i Lords Ground. The weather was fine l nnd the attendance was good. The Ausfc f rattans with 9 wickets down for 179, , resumed their innings, which closed for . 188 runs Murdoch being not out with ; 64 runs. The Home team being 135 to ** the bad, went in for their second innings, > but only succeeded in scoring 106 runs, 3 and the Australians thus won the match in one innings with 29 runs to spare. For Middlesex in their second innings the r highest scorers were Lucas, run out, 26, . and O'Brien, b 26. The bowling-of the i visitors was dead on the wickets of the Engi.s tmen which fell rapidly. Melbourne, This Day. Sir Wm. Jervois is now busy t ngaged ia connection with the local defences. 'Ihe trial of Biddle, the Werribee 1 stationmaster, oi achargeofman-1-iughter i in connection with the Little River ru.il- ! way disaster in April last, has resulted in a verdict of acquittal. Sydney, This Day. . It has transpired that the Duke of Manchester, who is now here, is negotiating on beiu. if of a syndicate, to purchase 1 the lease of the Lucknow gold mine. (pee united press association.) Donkdin. This Day. Mr Macandrew publishes in the Press a long manifesto to the electors of Otago and urges them to return candidates pledged to eject the Continuous Ministry, who haye, in the matter of railways and public works, treated the colony so shamefully. He strougly supports the establishment of a State Land Bank, to advance money to agriculturists at 4 per cent. ____ _ —^_— i Mr Stevens last night at Benconsfield received a unanimous vote of confidence. Upwards of forty elector* were present and pledged themselves to vote for Mr Stevens. j