AUSTRALIAN NEWS.
LP"!K UNITED PEESS ASSOCIATION. J Stdneti December 6. Tom Sullivan, the New Zealand oarss man, announces that as the six months during which St anbury, the present Champion Scullor of the World, may refuse to row a match for the champion* ship expires in a week, he intends to again challenge him, and if \l is. not answered he will claim the championship, and proceed to America, and row anyone for the title who offers. Stanbury declares his willingness to row anyone for the championshipprovided the stakes are £500 a side, which sum he says it was agreed should accompaay the title. The handicap outrigger race at the North Shore regatta was won by Moore, Bridsou 2nd, and Mcliae 3rd. The New Zealander stnrted from scratch, and was leading when he mistook the finishing post and stopped at the wrong place, otherwise he must have won easily. Melbourne, December 7. At o- meeting of the shareholders of the Standard Bank, the chairman blamed the wealthy depositors for the downfall of institution. Experts hare examined the accounts and certify to a surplus of £640,000. _____
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Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 69, 8 December 1891, Page 2
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