AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Feilding Star, Volume VII, Issue 58, 24 October 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[rkutebs tklkgbams.l Melboubnk, October 22. Hawthorne and Snip hare been scratched for the Melbourne Cup. The following is the latest betting :— Sheet Anchor, 100 to 8 : Treuton, 100 to 7 ; Despot, 100 to 6 ; Lirerpval 100 to 6. There is nothing farther to notice. The Andes and Tissue hare been scratched for the .Melbourne Cup. It is now almost rertain that Nordenfelt will not start for the y. R. C Derby. In the Legislative Assembly last nii{lit, the Federal Council Bill was read a second time without a division. Monte Christo has been scratched for tue Melbourne Cup. Sydney, October 22. Mr Dibbs Premier, has declared his intention not to resign, but expresses his determination to meet the House on the assembling of the new Parliament. The miners at Lambton colliery, Newcastle, have gone on strike, and the coal trimmers hare followed their example. Several vessels are lying in port, being delayed in consequence. A man, now in custody, ha* confessed to the murder of a little girl at Naran dera. He drowned her in a watcrhole, and held her dowu. Received October 21, 0 45 a.m. Sydney, October 23. Sir J«hn Robertson and Mr A. G. Taylor have been elected for Mudgee, defeating i>e Courcy Brown. Melbobbne, Octobor 23. Madcap, and Mr C Haines Lnntern have been scratched for the Melbourne Cup.