ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4302, 5 January 1875, Page 2

ENGLAND AND AUSTRALIA.

ARRIVAL OP THE HERO AT AUCKLAND. [Press Telegraph Agency.] Auckland, Monday. The s.s. Hero has arrived from Sydney, which she left on the 29th of December. She brings later English and Australian news: — London, December 25. An express train on the North Western Railway left the rails near Skipton. The carriages were precipitated into the canal, and thirty persons killed or drowned. An explosion has occurred in a colliery in Staffordshire, which caused the deaths of twenty men. Melbourne, December 29. The Intercolonial Cricket Match commenced on the 28th. Pive thousand spectators were present. Victoria had the first innings. Sleight, b. Spofforth, 0; Cooper, c. Woods, b. Spofforth. 45 ; Kelly, c. Spofforth, 14 ; Horan, b. Coates, 3; Boyle, run out, 17 ; Goldsmith, c. Thompson, 3 ; Cosstick, c. Gilbert, 6 ; McGauu, b. Tindall, 0 ; Campbell b. Spofforth, 25; Blackham b. Thompson, 32 ; Murphy (not out), 0 sundries, 4. Total, 149. New South Wales, Ist innings : Gilbert, st. Blackham, 11; Thompson, c. Murphy, 17 ; Sheridan, 1. b. w., 25 ; Powell, c. Horan, 6 ; Gregory, c. Blackham, 0 ; Baunerman, c. Costick, 81 ; Coates, c. Costick, 0 ; Spofforth, b. Costick, 21; Morgan, b. Costick, 0 ; Tindall (not out), 26 ; Wood, c. Horan, b. Boyle, 9 ; sundries, 20. Total, 216. Victoria, 2nd innings ; Goldsmith, b. Spofforth, 14 ; Cooper, b. Coates, 4 ; Boyle, c. Sheridan, 3 ; Kelly (not out), 37 ; Horan (not out), 12. Three wickets for 70 when stumps drawn. Two drunken men on the Yarra on Boxing Day upset their boat, and were drowned. Twenty sisters of the Cross and several Catholic priests were passengers by the steamer St. Osyth. Sir George Bowen will be entertained at a banquet by the Mayor, previous to his departure. Brisbane, December 28. As now reported here, the Communist refugees who lately landed were set adrift by a ship now off the coast. Sydney, December 29. New Zealand five per cents, are being pushed off at par. The ship Windsor Castle has arrived here, and reports passing a burning vessel of 500 or 600 tons, on October 22, in lat. sdeg. 20min long. 23deg. oGmin. A full-rigged ship standing by had evidently rescued the crew. Arrived. —Chevert, barque, from Otago. Hawkesbury Races. Maiden Plate. Tait’s Melbourne, Bst, 101 b., Ist; Gazelle, 7st. 61b, ( 2nd. Hawkesbury Handicap.—Blair Athol, 6st. 61b., Ist ; Lord Lyon and McCallum Mohr, dead heat for second place ; The Arrow, 3rd. Cakobau has proceeded by H.M.S. Dido to Fiji. Newcastle' Shipping. —Arrived : Firefly and Merritt, from Dunedin ; Robert Jones, Endymion, Levi Stevens, Hadda, and Esculador, from Lyttelton. Sailed: 25th, Easby, s.s., for Wellington, with 1800 tons of coal.