AUSTRALIAN.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1262, 30 January 1883, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

(BY CABLE.—REUTER’S TELEGRAMS). SYDNEY, Jan. 29, 2 p.m. The weather is fine ; but the wicket is heavy, owing to yesterday’s rain. The Australian’s score stands at 218 for 9 wickets. Murdoch, 1.b.w., 19; Macdonnell, b., nil; Bannerman, c., 94; Massie, c., 1; Bonnor, c., nil; Horan, c., 19; Garrett, c., nil’; Palmer, c., 7. LATER. The cricket match was continued. Spofforth, not out, nil; Blackham, b., 27 ; extras, 10. Total, 218. English Eleven, second innings, 103 (sic), all out. This Day, Jan. 30. The total of the second innings of the Englishmen yesterday was 123, not 103, as telegraphed ; extras, 5. The individual scores are correct as wired. The Australians require to make 153 in the second innings to win the match. ADELAIDE. Jan. 29. A great bush fire is raging at Mount Lofty near Adelaide. Three miles burning. Gardens suffered heavily. MELBOURNE, Jan. 30. Private telegrams announce that the Indian Government has voted fifteen thousand pounds to cover the expenses of the Indian Court at the approaching Calcutta Exhibi tion. Gibson, To'vn Clerk of Dunedin, has gone to Geelong and Ballarat to make enquiries as to possible further further frauds in connection with the municipal bonds. Mauritius advices to 13th inst., state that engagements of sugar for Lyttelton comprise 200 tons ; clearances include 500 tons for Dunedin. The sugar market is firm with an active demand. Reports from country districts show that the drought is interfering with the growing caues.

What may happen to a gentleman in Gisborne Xvhen he secures a bedroom in a certain hotel, was exemplified last ntght. The confiding traveller had baen consigned to No. 9 on the previous evening, and naturally thought that he should occupy the same bed when retiring to his rest on the following night. What was his astonishment, however, to find that someone had jumped his claim. Naturally he got his back up, and there was nearly being a scene, but controlling his temper he walked down stairs, and demanded from the landlord the reason of the intrusion. The reply he got was, “Oh, don’t make a noise ; go into No. 2.” It was with much exercise of moral power the disbedded lodger refrained from flattening the landlord’s jaw.