AUSTRALIAN.

Te Aroha News, Volume I, Issue 40, 8 March 1884, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN.

Melbourne, February 28. Thikty-onk horses have accepted for the ISewirarket Handicap, and twenty for the Australian Cup. Martini-Henry has been scratched for the latter race.

Melbourne, this day. The Victorian Navigation Board.replying to the Merchant Shipping and Underwriter's Association, state that they intend holding an enquiry into the collission between the steamers Wairarapa and Adelaide They point out, however, that they have no power to prevent racing. Sydney, this day.— Hon. H. Reid, Minister for Education, was opposed for East Sydney by Mr Burdekin, and the latter was elected by a majority of 40 votes. Melbourne, March 3.— Thirty-one horses ran in the Newmarket Handicap on Saturday.

Arrival of Suez Mails. Albany, March 3.— Arrived yesterday at King George's Sound : The P. and 0. steamship Mirzapore, with the English mails via Brindisi, dated London, 25th of JanuarySydney, March I.— Mr G. S. Reid has resigned the portfolio of Minister of Education.

Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be copied, and ease is only to be acquired with the greatest labour. The licensing elections at Napier were decided for the publicans' party by a • c fluke. " There were only two temperance candidates, and at the last moment the Borough Solicitor ruled that every voter must vote for five candidates, or the papers would be invalid, so the teetotallers had to vote for three on the other side. Youth without pleasure is like a flower that comes up too early in the year and is frozen half blown. Cricket match, Otago v. Canterbury, takes place on March 14, 15, and 17. Patent fire escape arrived by Ruapehu for Auckland City Council.