TELEGRAPHIC NEWS
(Per Press Agency.') LATEST FROM AUSTRALIA. [By Submarine Cable.] Sydney, September 18. Parliament is further prorogued till the 31st of October. An application has been received from New York to change the Pacific route to the Bay of Islands, Auckland, and Honolulu, instead of Fiji, and give up the New Zealand coastal service. Melbourne, September 18. Sailed—Ringarooma, with the Suez mails. INTERPROVINCIAL. Auckland, September 18. The New Zealand insurances on the Dandenong wore as follows South British. £1000; New Zealand, £1000; National, £SOO. The Nymphe sighted the Lyttelton schooner Seabird, which was sent to the Chatharas to search for the missing schooner Agnes. The Seabird was off Napier, shaping for Auckland. Auckland, September 19, Sailed—9 a.m, Hawea, for South. Passengers for Lyttelton —Mr and Mrs Mitchell and family, Mr Woodward. Dunedin, September 18. The Forbury Park Company have leased the racecourse to the Jockey Club for £OOO per annum. The railway employees have determined to form an Athletic Club, reading room, and fire brigade. Roberta beat Weston on Saturday. Weston only scored 109. Roberts scored 1000 in an hour and two minutes, or twelve minutes shorter time than it has ever been done in before. His largest breaks were 376, 223, and 176, chiefly by spot strokes. Two stacks of hay were destroyed yesterday by fire. Insured in the Standard for £IOO.
Nesbit plays Manson for £IOO to-morrow night. Dunedin, September 19.
Weston beat Roberts last night by nineteen points at 500 out of 1000, spot strokes barred to Roberts. Roberts left for Timaru to-day.
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Globe, Volume VII, Issue 702, 19 September 1876, Page 2
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