AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1897, 28 May 1889, Page 1

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

_ Melbourne, May 24. j Heavy rains have] fallen, and large tracts of country between Numurkih and Tarrawonga, on tbe Mdrrayßmr, are flooded. 'Much damage baa'been done to newly*6wri crops, The New Zealand Football team played a match to-day against the Victorian Rugby Union, winning by 4 goals BBd;2 tries to 2 goals. The football match: yesterday; bet ween Carlton and fc&oU's M*ofile«m, resulted in a v decided- victory for Carlton by is goals and 16 bahinds, to 2 goals and m bohind& The game showed that the Maori team were; not up to the real points in the Australian game; The team have been entertained at a banquet by the members of the Rugby Union players. > Sydney, May 24 : The weather 1 for the holiday to-day was most miserable, being wet and vary cold. May 26. : The weather for the last few days has been very 1 boisterous, and all along the coast rain has fallen continuously for 40 hours. Arrived—Mararoa from Auckland. ' Brisbane, May 24.

Government have received a dispatch' from Lord Knutsford, in which the Secretary of State for the Colonies ujjholds the action ot His Excellency" the Governor in dismissing Commander Wright, R.N.,, of the Queensland gadboat Gayondah, for refusing in October last to band over the gunboat to the Queensland authorities.