AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 337, 6 January 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Melbourne, Jan. 3. Arrived —Tararua, from the Bluff. Jan. 4 The cricket match Australian Team v. The Combined Eleven of New South Wales and Victoria, was resumed today. The Combined Eleven were all disposed of in their second innings for ] SO runs, and the Australians thus*won ; J by 178 ruus._ ■ J The departure of the Union Compony’s steam it Tararua, for New land has been postponed until Satuidiy^^^J Mauritius advices to the 24th ber report the sugar market therF WKM being strong, and sugar to L2 10s per ton higher. Top Sage | was scarce. 1 Adelaide, J an. 3. A Serious bush fires have the country districts, attended hy life and property. In one woman with her five daughters have been burned to death. Sydney, January, Arrived —Union Company’s Rotomahana, from Auckland, Bishop Barker has had a severe attj of paralysis. Prayers were offered upHB yesterday in all the churches for his recovery. * His Lordship is decidedly im-.' .H proved to-day. Jan. 4. -H The crew of the New Ireland coloniz- vT ing steamer Genii have been yft ate. The alleage now that they were iik '* sufficiently fed. The captain appealed p the authorities, but they have declinetfM.~J to interfere on the ground that there is.; . no Liberian Consul here- The crew who , are composed mostly of Malays and'. Chinese, have come ashore in a body and refuse to re-embark. , —— M