AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
BKUTBBB TELEOBAWS Melboubne, August 29. A match for the championship of the world and five hundred pounds a- side, has been arranged between Hanlan and Beach, and will take place on the Paramatta river the first Saturday in May next year. A sculling match has also been arranged between Clifford and Teemer for five hundred pounds a-side. The latest betting on the Metropolitan Stakes is as follows : — Wallangra, 5 to 1 ; Hastngs, 6to 1 ; Off Colour, Bto 1 ; and Malua. 9 to 1. For the Derby Bargo is first favourite at 7 to 1. A sculling match has been arranged between Hanlan and Clifford to take place within five months. The stakes to be £500 a-side.
Received August 30, 0.5 a.m. Melboubne, August 29. Arrived, this afternoon, Union steamship Te Anau, from Bluff. Sydney. August 29. Arrived, this afternoon, R.M.S. City of Sydney, from San Francisco, via Auckland. All the small-pox patients are progressing favorably and no further cases have occurred. Received August 30, 1 p.m. Sydney, This Day. Five horses are left in for the Derby to .be run to-day, and the following twenty for the Metropolitan to be run on Tuesday—Sir Modred, Off Colour, Warwick, Hurricane, Despot, Rapid, Sloth, Hill Top, Hastings, Little Sister, Bonnie Bee, Comet, Brown and Rose, Privateer, Wallangra, Reginald, Princess Lome, Palerenna, Isonomy, Albert, and Victor. For Metropolitan, at 4 to 1, Wallengrais first favorite. '
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 33, 30 August 1884, Page 2
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