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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 971, 6 August 1877, Page 2

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INTEEPEO YIN CT AL. [per press agency,] Unemployed Meeting in Auckland. Loss of the Jessie Henderson. Auck land, August (). A meet ing of unemployed, largely attended, passed resolutions urging an appeal to the Government, through the Day or, to open the railway works on the second section of the Kaipara line, or to construct the Auckland station by day labor, or, if contracted for, to prohibit the contractors from subletting the work, a system which led to great evils ; also, asking the city and the harbor ' authorities to push on the works. The schooner Jessie Henderson, formerly in the Dunedin trade, was lost at Ramsay Island, South Seas, on the 14th of July. The ship was twelve miles from land, going eight knots in a steady breeze, and she struck a reef not marked bn the chart. Every device to gel; her off was tried without effect. Water came in rapidly from a hole forward, and the vessel suddenly settled down about an hour after striking. The captain and crew had barely time to get over the side into a boat. The chronometer was the only tiling saved, the men not even getting their boots. The boats pulled to the island. The crew afterwards reached Loviika, where an inquiry was held, and Capt. Urquhart was acquitted of all blame. She is insured for £ISOO in the Aon Zealand office. The Australian Cricket Team. Wellington, August <>. Mr John Conway, writing to a member of the “New Zealand Times” staff respecting the contemplated visit of an Australian team to New Zealand, says You may calculate we shall bo in New Zealand, if negotiations end successfully, early in January. The Australian team will, you may rest assured, make heaps of friends in your colony by their good behaviour and good cricket playing. The matter is all in shape now. Nothing remains but to get leave of of absence for three of the team for twelve months. I expect articles to be signed in the course of a week, then I will send you the names of the full team. The twelve, you state, will be chosen from the following Messrs Eannerman, Dlackham, D. Gregory, Allan, N. Thompson, Kendall, Horan, Doyle, Sleight, Garret, Murdoch, Kelly, Spoffortb, Campbell, and G. 11. Bailley (Tasmania). You can imagine what a team can be selected from the above. It has not yet been decided whether the start will be made from Sydney or Melbourne.