AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6494, 20 December 1881, Page 4

AUSTRALIA.

[EkUTX»*3 TXLXaBAMS.j MELBOURNE, Dec. 19. The cricket match between the English team and Eleven of Victoria *u resumed to-day. The weather »u again showery, and the wicket *xi ■-rj dead. Play was frequently bvrr-.r-c-i daring the day, and when :h----were drawn the EsgUshsc-c. ixi continued their second inr.=c<. iu i together 162 for the .-h i wickets. Barlow was rough: l.r Selby caught for 32, Shrew si j. z.z oat, 62.

The dispute between ProfrsKrs Elkington and Naneoo, in the fracaa which recently occurred x: the University Board meeting, hx# now been amicably settled, and the threatened action has been abandoned. SYDNEY, Dae. 19. Two fresh cases of small-pox -o Wooieomooloo have been reported to tht* Health Board. A storm of unusual violence, accompanied by heavy rain, with thunder and lightning, was experienced here to-day. No damage, however, has been done :o boildinga in the city. A destructive fire has occurred -i: Newcastle. The losses are covered by insurance in the various Australian offices. Arrived, yesterday afternoon—Wakatipu, 8.8., from Wellington. Arrived—Pacific Company’s steamship City of New York, from San Francisco, vii Auckland. BRISBANE, Dec. 19. A trolly in which two labourers were asleep, was ran Into by a train Dolby, and both men were killed.