AUSTRALIAN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2686, 28 October 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Eeuxes’s Agenct.] No Confidence. Melbourne, Oct. 27. The debate on Mr Ramsay’s motion was continued to a late hour in the Legislative Assembly last night, and was finally adjourned til! to-day. Committed. Thorpe has been committed for trial on the charge of embezzling £2500 from the Bank of Victoria. Missing Steamer. No further information has been received regarding the missing steamer Balclutba. It is now known there were twenty-two souls on board when she sailed from Melbourne to Sydney. Fenian Scare. Telegrams to hand from Freemantle, Western Australia, report that a Fenian scare has been occasioned there by the appearance of armed'boats off the coast, They made off when seen,and the police are now searching for the intruders. Later intelligence state that only one boat’s crew has been seen on the coast, and not several armed boats as at first reported. Melbourne CupThe following are the - latest quotations in the betting on the Melbourne Cup Duchess, Bto 1; Waxy, Bto 1; Trump Yoss, 10 to 1; Savanaka, 12 to 1 ; Odd Trick, 14 to 1; Somnus, 50 to 3 ; Sir Modred, 25 to 1; Sweetmeat, 23 to 1. Gone Ashore. , Intelligence has been received that the barque Ehrensvard, bound from Batavia to Melbourne, has gone ashore at Fassaroean on the coast of Java.