AUSTRALIA.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 2193, 7 March 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIA.

I‘REUTER’B TELEGRAMS,*] MELBOURNE, March 5, SngarA company is being formed here to undertake the refining of sugar. The capital will bo £IOO,OOO. Sporting. Tho third day’s racing of the Y.R.C. Autumn Meeting took place this afternoon at Plemington. Tho Newmarket Handicap, three-quarters of a mile, was won by Aspon easily in Imin. Waterford was second and Terrific third. Twenty-seven horses started, and it was a very pretty race. The Town Plate was won by Grand Flaneur, with Sweatmeat second and Progress third. MELBOURNE, March 7. Dangers of the Deep. A correction is rendered necessary by tho mutilation of a Melbourne telegram in transmission for news. It should read as follows : —“ As the turret ship Cerberus was practising yesterday afternoon in Port Phillip, one of her gigs, which was out, was suddenly blown up by a torpedo. Five men were blown to atoms, but one escaped.” In the morning papers it was erroneously stated that the Cerberus itself was blown up. Later. Details regarding tho Cerberus disaster state that the gig left the ship at the Heads to explode a charge, and that during preparations an oar fonled tho wire, and although tho battery was not connected, an explosion was caused, and, as already reported, the boat and all of its occupants save one were blown to atoms. Reform. It is understood that the Government has resolved to strongly resist at the present time Mr Murray Smith’s motion for a Conference on the Reform Bill. SYDNEY, March 5. CricketThe cricket match between the Australian team and a Combined Eleven of Now South Wales and Victoria was resumed to-day. The Australians in their first innings were all disposed of for 155, being 42 runs less than the total of their opponents’ first innings. Murdoch with 65 and Blackham with 36, both howled, wore the highest scorers for the Australians. The combined team went to the wickets for their second innings, but play was stopped by the inclemency of the weather, when they had put together 74 runs for two wickets. Massie was howled for 50. There was a large attendance at th« match. SYDNEY, March 7. ShippingArrived—Wakatipu, from Wellington, yesterday. Mining. Authentic information has been received hero from Mount Poole goldfield, in the Grey ranges. Five hundred men are there, and perfect order prevails, but the Chinese have been denied access to the ground. Tho average yield up to tho present has been per load. It is stated that the field is considered untenable unless rain falls, as water is very short. Only twenty of the miners are known to ho on gold. ADELAIDE, March 6. Offers of Service DeclinedEarl Kimberley, tho Secretary for State for tho Colonies, has telegraphed to tho Governor, declining with thanks the offer made by a number of volunteers of this city to proceed to tho Capo for service against the Boers.