AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1182, 23 October 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

BY ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH.—(COPYRIGHT) (REUTER’S TELEGRAMS.) MELBOURNE, Oct. 21. Private advices announce that the nine first prizes taken by Victoria at the Bordeaux Exhibition were as follows :—Adamson, Melton, Grosse, Richie, Johnston, Cas* tella, Venegard, and Caugher. The local agent of the P. and O. Steamship Company has received a telegram reporting that the steamship Peshawur, with the inward mails via Suez and Brindisi, dated Sept. 16, came into collision with a barque shortly after leaving Colombo, Ceylon, and has put back to effect repairs. The damage sustained by the Peshawur is not of serious nature, and it is expected that she will start again qu the 23rd inst. Oct. 22. Further telegrams which are to hand state that the Peshawar has returned to Colombo, having in tow the barque Glencoe, with which she had been in collision. Both vessels were damaged. The necessary repairs to the Peshawar will be effected without delay, and she is expected to be able to start for Melbourne in a few days. This Day. The schooner Yarra, bound from Newcastle to Melbourne, became a total wreck at three o’clock this morning. All on board have been saved. The death is announced of Mr John Hydes, the well-known actor. This Day. The Marquis of Normanby received a telegram yesterday announcing the death of his mother, the Dowager Marchioness of Normanby, aged 87. SYDNEY, Oct. 21. The ship Northampton, which struck on a reef off Port Hacking, was successfully towed into Botany Bay and beached there, and the immigrants safely landed. The casualty occurred owing to a heavy fog which obscured the land. This Day. Heavy rain falling, and is extending throughout the colony. It is doing incalculable good, and is reviving the hopes of the squatters and farmers.