LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Kumara Times, Issue 2589, 9 October 1884, Page 2

LATEST AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

[REUTERS TELEGRAMS.] By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. >—< SCRATCHINGS FOR THE MELBOURNE CUP. FIRST WOOL AUCTION FOR THE SEASON. TAWHAIO FOR AUCKLAND. FOUNDERING OF THE STEAMSHIP MADJUS. (Received October 9, 1 a.m.) Melbourne, October 8. Sailed, thia afternoon, the Union steamship Te Anau, for the Bluff. The following scratchings for the Melbourne Cup are posted :■ —Comet, Hor.eydew, Prince Imperial, and Tomboy. Messrs G-oldsbrough and Co., Limited, held their first wool auction for the season to-day. There was a crowded attendance of Homo, foreign, American, and local buyers, and a brisk competition was experienced financially for scouted, wools. Ordinary

greasy realised 9|d ; good scouted to 21d. No superior lots were offered today. The catalogue comprised 14,000 bales, of which 1235 were sold. (Received October 9,12.30 p.m.) Sydney, October 9. Tawhaio did not not leave by the Wakatipu on Tuesday, as telegraphed. He will be a passenger for Auckland by tbe.Wairarapa on the 16th inst. Mr Stuart's (the Premiei's) condition continues to improve. The steamship Madjus, 246 tons, bound from Sunderland to this port, has foundered at sea, off Port Macquarie on the New South Wales coast. All on board, however, are saved. (Per s.s. Manapouri at the Bluff.) Melbourne, September 30. The Tasmanian cable is restored after an interval of two months. Arrangements are nearly completed for lighting the General Post Office with electricity. The Melbourne Cricket Club has commenced the erection of a temporary stand to replace the one recently burned down. Philathol is scratched for the Derby. The death is announced of Superintendent Kalmt, long connected with the police force in Victoria. The Hon. Graham Berry has been confined to his room wish sciatica. In connection with the mysterious death of Mrs Payne, at Sydney, it has been ascertained that though she was wealthy, her father is an inmate of the Melbourne Benevolent Asylum. Remegni, the renowned Hungarian violinist, has arrived, and plays for the first time on Monday next. Sydney, September 29. A captain, second mate, carpenter, steward, and four sailors, were picked up by the steamer Timor off Cape York on the 2nd. They belonged to the ship George Gordon, of Glasgow, bound from Newcastle to Java, and which was wrecked on the 11th inst. on the Eastern Fields. The lifeboat, with the mate and nineteen hands, was missing, but has since arrived at Cooktown. News has arrived of further aggressions by blacks in the Daley River district, in the Northern Territory. They attacked a party of teamsters, who shot two in self defence. Parties are out in pursuit. A fine rain has fallen in the colony, and the prospects of a good harvest are undoubted. At a meeting of the Port Darwin sugar Company, it was decided to go into liquidation. The police have been informed that a party of Arabs, consisting of ten men and nineteen women and children, embarked at Port Said on a steamer calling here. It is possible the English Eleven may meet an Australian Eleven here in December. Abraham Wallace, one of the pioneer suttlers of the colony has committed suicide. The gunboat Protector has arrived from England.