AUSTRALIAN.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 2953, 12 September 1882, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

i [Ebutbb’s j&lKot;]' i ' • • ; ■ • ii i.' in - "*■* I ~, „ _ , , ’’./J i H ‘Melboubne, Sept. II; ! The comet was plainly visible in the N.E. during-'? the early morning. The nucleus is equal in brilliancy to the planet Jupitpr. ■ 1 - • Sugar. { Maoritjns;jidYjices top August 27 arc lo band. They state that the new season sugar market* has Opened, bat only a small quantity of assorted sugars r.areyel i, av&lhble. u ' ‘ ' ?iS ” i 1 ’ ShippingI \ Arrived, this. morningwOrient steam*, ‘ship Cuzco, from Plymouth. Among ]|ec passengers for New Zealand. is Lord Clifford. 7 F , yy j 1 StWßr,'Septvli. j Arrived, this Oom> •pany’s steamer- 'j&raw.ata,; froin> rAuokjland. :v ; ; Sir H- Parires- _ j tb take a cbtn^letb f test time, is hoped that.he is .now ..recoyc£ ing/though slowly. Prayers werij ? offered up; ; in some -of f thu-churches yesterday for 'his'restoration to health, I • ■ ft' War Shiji-' „ | The French War ship Distress (P) arrived hem recently,, visited the. >New Hebrides Group, tb ' o’ertaib 1 French traders at Espirito Santo One , of, the principal native villages was homhardedfortwo hours, and bbmpletely destroyed.

; v; * Sporting- ; The settling-np on\tho ; |We Australian Jocke^ 5 6iub Sjpnng meeting toot place this evening.The'total amount of the stakes .amounted to £6033. Sting, the winner of the Craven Hate ' and the Bandwiok Hate, was sold at auction to-dby'for 16$) guineas. . v;- ; '