YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1057, 16 November 1877, Page 2

YESTERDAY'S TELEGRAMS

[by submabine cable, pee peess agency.] AUSTRALIAN. Losses on the Melbourne Cup. [SPECIAL TO DUNEDIN " STAB."] Melboubne, November 13. The bookmakers are paying up. Joseph Thompson, the leviathan, has paid away £21,000, including £IO,OOO to the owner of Chester. The public is backward in paying. Chester remains first favorite for the Champion race. Sydney, November 13. The elections have terminated slightly in favor of the Government, who, however, have not a working majority. Faithful has been acquitted of the attempted assassination of Mr Russell, the Government Astronomer. The presiding judge stated that the accused's character had not been cleared. INTERPROYINCIAL. New Plymouth, November 15. The amount subscribed towards the Indian famine fund up to date is £354. Dunbdin, November 15. This month's "Jurist" states that the Appeal Court case of Eliott v. Branchley was settled some time ago by payment of the debt and costs, and that some other cases which have gone to the Court of Appeal were also settled, and are being argued in a friendly manner by arrangements between solicitors. [PEOM THE COEEESPONDENT OF THE PEESS.] North Otago Show. Oamaeu, November 15. The first day's show of the Northern Agricultural and Pastoral Association was attended by about 4000 people. The weather was splendid. The exhibits, as a whole, were first class. The total number was 983. The cups, so far as the judging has gone, were taken as follow: Thoroughbred horses, Alexander Paterson ; Ayrshire cattle, Fleming and Hedley; general cattle, T. G. Duncan ; Merino sheep, Oakden and Brown; Leicesters, Gillies and Street; Lincolns, Hon. M. Holmes; dairy produce, Miss Robertson ; implements, Jack, Steele, and Hendry; agricultural produce, | John Falconer. There is"a very large number of people in the town. To-morrow is the principal day.