AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume X, Issue 61, 12 March 1875, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

The schooner Ka'e Conley has be:n stranded, but the crew were rescue 1. At a public meeting of merchants a resolution was passei in favor of a Harbor Trust. The Oddfellows' Hall at Belfast was burned down by the freak of a drunken man kicking onr a kerosene lamp during a ventriloquist's entertainment. Dr Buller, of New Zealand is created a Companion of St. Michael and St. George. At a fire at Albury yesterday, a man nan ed Charles Henry was burnt to death. Schoolfield'a wool-washing establishment at Portland has been burned, and 100 bales of wool destroyed. Amved —Zephyr, from Greymouth. Wheat, 4s 7^d. Bottled ale has advanced to 11s; mains are in dc-maud at en advance. Florence Bassett, a promising contra'to singer, die 1 last night of consumption. - Newcastle, March 6. Arrived — Alarm, irom Lyttelton } W. Giffrrd, from Timaru. Sailed—Seagull, for Lyttelton. Sydnbt, March 6. Mr Arnold's tody was found 300 yards from his residence. His man servant was with him at the time of the accident, and MiArnold, finding 1 himself sinking, told the servant to tell his family h^w it happened, and then disappeared. The floods are euboiding. The Government call for tenders for the Cblifornian service in the colonies. Intekcoloiual Cricket Match :•—Pjdney in the first innings made 116, of wlrch B. Gregory scored 66, not out; Coatea, 14; Evans, 11. The next were quickly disposed of. Stven of the Victorian wickets are down for 44 runp. The ground is very dead after the late rains.