INTERCOLONIAL.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XVI, Issue 310, 30 December 1881, Page 2

INTERCOLONIAL.

Melbourne, December 29. The following is the latest betting on the Champion Stakes, to be run on Monday, January "2nd ':— Wbeat'6ar',"S to 2; Santa Ciaua 7to 1. The following horses are also probable' starters:— St. Peter, Royal Maid, Coriolahus, Kohinoor, Commotion, Marmora, Martindale, Somerset, and Monmouth. Mr Twopenny, oue of the promoters, will leave Melbourne by tbe Arawata to arrange far the opening of the International Exhibition st Christchurch. Tho 15th March has been fixed as the date for the ceremony. Oyer two hundred applications for space have already been received from England by intending exhibitors'. Commodore Erskine bas promised to take the Australian squadron to- Lyttelton at an early date, and will assist. at the opening ceremony. It is .expected that the. Exhibit tion will ba very successful. Brisbane, Eriday. A serious fire resulting in the destruction of three shops occurred last night, in South Brisbane. The insurances include .£6OO in New Zealand offlces.

L" Herald " specials.] (Per Wakatipu at Wellington.) London, December 19. The German Reiohstag has re-elected the President and Vice-President. A Bedouia>m«rdered a soldier at Sa«z and the affair led to a riot among the military, in the court'e of which the -Governor was subjsoted tp outrsge.DecemWr 20. Eighteen Socialists have been arrested iv Vienna. Forty' deaths wers occasioned by- an explosion; at A}ram colliery, in Wigan, Lancashire. The Lord Siayor of London has comm anicated with t^e Provincial Mayor requesting their cooperation initiated tor She defence of property, in; Ireland during the. pressnt period of lawlessness. A farmer has murdered at Abbeyleix, Queen's County, Ireland. Ia consequenca of tbe menacing attitude assumed by tha prominent members, of the Ladies Land League, the Government are determined to suppress tbe * organization, and the authorities are preparing the prison at Grangegarman County, Dublin, for tha reception of political offenders. The Governor of Eastern Siberia reports that the schooner Jeanette, fitted out for Arctic exploration purposesby James Gordon Bennett, of the New __York Herald, and generally believed, to have perished, has been discovered safe. *'•'-" ■ ■ "' Dec. 21., The Atlantic steamer Bath City has been wrecked, and ten people drowned. She" was a vessel of 1,724 tons, and built in 1880. The members of the Ladies Land Leaguesuppressed by the Government as seditious of illegal association, have held a meeting and openly defied the action of the Government. A gas explosion of a serious nature occurred in Vienna, causing several deaths and injuring others. The Customs authorities of New York discovered 1,8000 cases of rifles shipped for Liverpool, aad described as hardware. The Oriant Company's new steamer A*kstrali*, built entirely of steel, -was launched to-day. She is intended for the Anglo-Australian trade. A thermometer known to have been in the balloon in which Mr Powell, M.P., was a passenger, has been picked up on the sands near Portland. There is scarcely a doubt that the balloon and all in it have perished. December 22. Six ladies have contributed £9 000 to tha fund initiated for the defence of property during the present period of lawlessness in Ireland. December 23. Since the catastrophe at the Ring Theatre at Vienna the public have almost entirely forsaken the theatres in the oity. In order to restoro confidence the lessees of the various theatres have found a deputation to the Emperor, asking that experts be appointed to report on the means of sgress from tha buildings. Seventeen British sailors have beeu arrested at New Orleans for causing a disturbance at a public meeting. The statement that Mr Parnell has been removed from Kilmainham gaol to Ormagh gaol is without foundation.