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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XV, Issue 23, 27 January 1880, Page 2

LPer Wakatipu at Wellington.]

Sydney. Trickett received information by the San Francisco mail that Haulon will visit England during the coming season to retain the trophy won from Elliott. Canon Smith, of Bathurat, is about to visit England, and has undertaken to deliver ten lectures on Ne»y South Wales. At a meeting of the Cricket Association on the 19th inst, a letter was read from the manager of the team for England, contradicting the rumors that the team was not likely to go. Lilly white is arranging matches in England on behalf of the team. At the execution of Scofcfc, he died instantaneously. Eogan struggled for ten minutes. Scott wrote incessantly the greater part of the preceding night. At the first interview with his mother and sister Kogan behaved brutally, using disgusting language. South Australia. \ freights are lower ; iron ships 60s, and wooden 6s less. .The weather is very hot, and several bush fires are raging. One at Port Elliott threatened to destroy the township, and burnt the gardens, haystacks, and "grass of the township. The steamer Seine left Banjoewangi on Saturday, the 17th, paying out the duplicate cable to Port Darwin. . The mission brig John Wesley, from the Solomon Group, was spoken off Newcastle on the 19th under jury masts, but declined assistance.

Queensland. .On the re-opening- of the State schools on the 20th instant the RomanJCatholic children were noticeably absent. At the half yearly meeting of the Queensland Insurance Company the recent movement to wind up was generally approved, and the report was adopted. The'h'eaviest floods known have occurred in the Daintree river. Cedar logs and bullocks were washed away, and apprehensions respecting the cedar getters' safety prevail. Victoria. The subscriptions to the Irish Relief Fund continue to flow in, and the Committee hope soon to announce the receipt of £10, f 00. The Australian Agency and Banking Corporation have declared a dividend of ten per cent per annum. ' "" Mr Johnston, analytic chemist, has finished the analysis of the beer in the" Queenscliff poisoning case, and found enough strychnine in a bottle to poison fourteen men. The . Brewers Club are taking action in the cases in the interests of the trade. Bush fires are reported in many parts of the country, but no serious damage haa been done. The highest temperature registered in the country to day was 110 in the shade.