AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1216, 4 December 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(BY CABLE. —REUTER’S TELEGRAMS). SYDNEY, Dec. 2. In the afternoon the Cricket Match between the New South Wales Eleven and the English Team was resumed. The weather was fine, and there was a very large attendance of spectators. The Englishmen continued their first innings, the not outs of the previous day (Barlow and Mr Leslie) resuming their places at the wickets. Both players made a splendid stand, and the runs were run up fast. Leslie was finally caught when he had put together 144, and Barlow followed with SO (bowled). Mr C. T. Studd was bowled for 23, and Bates was caught and bowled for 30. There are now five wickets down, and the score stands at 283, as against 152 scored by the local team in their first innings. At the close of the day's play the English Eleven had scored 441 for eight wicket?. The following are the remainder of the scores:—Mr W. W. Read, c and b, 40; Mr Steel, b, 52 : Mr I’ylcCOTe, b, 2G ; Mr Vernon, notout, 12: Barnes, not out, (J; sundries, IG—total for eight wickets, 4-11. This Day. In the elections for the Legislative Assembly now proceeding the Hou. F. B. Sutton, Minister of Education, and Mr 'J'. Garrett have been returned. Messrs. W. J. Foster, John Davies, aim S. G. S. Funerll have been rejected.

ADELAIDE, Dec. 2, f Wheat is ttiiflted at 4s. 4d (> but the market ] is dull, and them is nothing doing. To#h i i flour is quoted nt fl2 55., and country bvartds ) jat £ll 10s. pfirton. Freights to the United ! Kingdom from Adelaide flailing, 38s, to4O«. . i ditto from outp<n’ts, 40s. MELBOURNE, Dec. a. ' I’ai’tictilai‘s received regarding the raib va y ! collision last evening, show that two cari riages in ea«h trilin were completely srrtf .shed up. The one next the engine of th<i train | from Melbourne was driven right th rough the next carriage. The scene at th e accident was most distressing, several of the i passengers were only extricated ft om the I wrecked carriages with extreme difficulty, I many of the injured were feai’f Lilly cut ! about the head, and several hav e broken legs, arms, and ribs, and internal and spinal l' injuries. The total known to b? injured is • nearly thirty. Nine of the suffer* jrs are now j in the Melbourne Hospital, and M ;veral are in the Albert Hospital. So far as known no 1 prominent citizens have been hurt, This accident is attributed to a special train from l Box hi 11 passing Hawthorne without stopping to allow the other from Melbourne to pass. i There is great excitement in b>wn over the 1 catastrophe, and the Melbourne newspaper l offices arc crowded with people anxious for j news. Later. According to latest information Mr Thomas • has died from the effects of injuries received, ! and Mr Ross is in an hopeless; state. A distustrous and shocking railway accident l occurred at f 1.30 this evening on the Mcl- ! bourne and Hawthorne railway line. A special train wan returning from a land-slip 1 at Box-hill, and after passing Hawthornstation without slopping, it collided with a This Day. train from Melbourne to Hawthorn, travelling ' on the same line of rails at a speed of 40 miles an hour. The engine of the Melbourne train was diriven clean through a first-class 1 carriage, which it completely telescoped. ‘ The engine penetrated the greater portion of , tha vehicle. The second and third-class cari riages of the Hawthorn train were likewise telescoped. The wheels of one carriage were ; resting on the seats of the other. There I were a great number of passengers on the train at the time of the collision. Twenty to thirty are seriously injured ; several very l badly. The case of many is deemed hopei less. So far as is known, at present, none I were killed outright. Sunday Night. | No further fatalities have as yet resulted ' from the railway accident.