AUSTRALIA.

Lyttelton Times, Volume LVII, Issue 6506, 3 January 1882, Page 4

AUSTRALIA.

[Rbutbb’s Teleobamb.J MELBOURNE, Jan. 2. The cricket match between the All England Eleven and the Combined Eleven o£ Australia was resumed today, and when stumps were drawn the latter had put together in the first innings 277 runs for the loss of only six wickets, as against the 294 of the Englishmen’s first innings. Horan, not oat 106 Murdoch ... 39 A- Banherman 88 Giffen 80 The weather to-day was fine but cold, and the attendance was again very large. It is expected that the match will be drawn. SYDNEY, Jan, 2. The race for Tattersall’s Oup to-day resulted as follows : Lord Orvalle 1 Bosinante 2 Yaletta ... 8 The revenue of New South Wales for the past year amounted to £6,7X4,000, being an increase of £1,802,000 compared with 1880. The land revenue amounted to £2,821,000, railways earned £1,460,000, and the Post Office £330,000. Increases are shown in income from duties on spirits, tobacco, and from stamps. Two fresh oases of small-pox are reported to-day, and one death has resulted from the disease. The Australian Steam Navigation Oompany’s steamship Wo tonga has gone ashore at Port Maoquarrie, on the New South Wales ooast, and is expected to become a total wreck. The passengers and crew have been landed safely. The cause of the disaster is attributed to a fog obscuring the lighthouse at the entrance of the port. ADELAIDE, Jan, 2. The South Australian revenue for the

put quarter amounted to £544,000, being an increase of £47,000, compared with the corresponding quarter of 1880. The revenue for the half-year ended, Deo. 81, was £1,124,000, an increase of £167,000, compared with the last si* months of the previous year.