AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 95, 27 January 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

£b_uteb's telegbams. J Sydnet, Jan. 25. A match commenced here to-day between the English cricketers-* and a local eleven. The former went in first, and J we all put out for 205, the highest scorers being Barries, &, "33 ; "Bate*, b. 6_; and "Attwell, C, 27. When play ceased for- the day, the. Home, teaip had lost, two wickets for 21 runs. 1 A X *-?l BTH » J an * 25. A reward of five hundred pounds has been. offered for information leading to the conviction of the peroetrators of the recent! inturders.- at . {he (Union Bank at Koeburne. ->Beoeived January 27,- 1.56 a.m. Sydney, January 2_. : The [cricket match between tbe English team, and an *eleven ofsNjew South Wales ~w_v resumed here to-day. The first innings of the Home team closed for 60. They ih . ref orb followed dn, and when- the stumps'were' drawn' for the day Jiad lost one wicket for 42. The wicket was heavy, owing"to rodent rains. The visitors' bowl-! ingjW^s ( dead on. . The follpwing are the! names of the home t__m :'— C. Banner'! man, Downes, Evans, Garrett, Huddles stone, Jones, Man, Nunn, O'Hanlon; ! Pope;_h_ r _'ow_.: I: '*"'■'■' '■'■■■* ■■ !.' j -—The rain throughout the country has been the heaviest experienced for years and has ~falleuorertheiwhole. colony, and "this city.' ' ' -:--• '-*■ —

.--. --„- Hobabt, January 26. ■ "Arrived, this morning, the New Zealand Shipping Company's Eoyal Mail Steamer, Aorangi, , from Plymouth December 20. She encountered a heaijy gale Flym.u(|h-.- fcrid' i'TeTnejriffe. The passengers 'for 1 New Zealand nuniber 233 .' :i '■''''■- : ■";•>-•- -i Jr n- „- j ■ ' ■•' ■■>.:. i . MuMdrßiTßi January -26. ' . ... The highest weights for the Australian Cup t6"be J .un at the Victorfen Racing .ClubVAut__in J meeting are— Commotion lOst 4ljbs '; ;Legrahd 9st .lbs, For Ncjw Market. If andicap' the top Weights are— Malua lOst 41 bs ; Legrand 9st lOlbs.