AUSTRALIAN.

Globe, Volume XXIII, Issue 231, 6 September 1881, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

[eeutee’s telegrams.] MELBOURNE, September 5. A Light Sentence. The trial of E. J. Agg, accountant of the Lands Department, for forgery, has resulted in the prisoner, who pleaded guilty, being sentenced to two years’ imprisonment. The Railway AccidentThe passengers injured at the Jolimont railway accident are progressing, though slowly. Several of the sufferers have, it has been ascertained, been injured internally. Something like Business-

It ia announced that the steamship Europa will leave early next month with another shipment of meat for London. SYDNEY, September 5. Aquatic-

The two first heats in the sculling races for the Whiskey Trophy, the prizes for which amount to £3OO, were rowed to-day on the Parramatta river over a course between Gladesville Wharf and Bath House, at Hyde. In the first division the result was as follows :— W. Trickett, Sydney, 1; J. J. Power, Twofold Bay, 2 ; 0. Laycock, Sydney, 3. The second division resulted as follows : —Ohas. P. Laycock, Sydney, 1; E. Shepherd, West Maitland, 2. McDonald, Clarence river, who was drawn for this heat, did not start. Smallpox-

Two fresh cases of small pox are announced, the sufferers being a man named Caulfield, now in the infirmary, and a woman named Margaret Garrett, residing on Botany road. Mrs Rogers died of the disease last night in Pyemont street. It has now been ascertained that several of the quarantined cases are not small pox at fill, Periled accounts by persons recently released from quarantine endorse in full the statements previously made of maladministration at the station. AquaticIt is probable that another sculling match will be arranged between Rush and Laycock for £2OO. Sporting. The S.J.O. Spring Meeting opened at Randwick, on Saturday. For the Derby three started, and the race was won by Wheatear by one length, with Sardonyx second, and Gem third. Hurdle Race— Albyn 1, Pluto 2, Molly Asthore 3. Trial Stakes —Primrose 1, Bathurst 2, Vesper 3. Epsom Handicap—Waxy 1, Courtenay 2, Millbrodale 3. Spring Stakes —Millington 1, Marmora 2, Yosemite 3. Welter Handicap—Sunset 1, Zulu 2, Saunterer 3. ADELAIDE, September 5. Promoters of ExhibitionsMessrs Joubert and Twopenny, the promoters of the recent Adelaide Exhibition, have definitely decided to organise a similar exhibition at Christchurch in the early part of the year.