AUSTRALIAN.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 4994, 14 January 1885, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

[Received January 14, 12.50 p.m.] Sydney, This day. Arrived, yesterday afternoon: Eingarooma, from Auckland.

In the course of a speech last night the Hon. W. B. Dalley, Attorney-General, defended the position of Government in relation to New Guinea Annexation, and said it waa difficult to determine whether the impudence or the absurdity of the request that the Imperial Government should protest against German annexation was the greater.

[Received January 14, 1.15 p.m.] Melboubne, This day. One case of small-pox has occurred at Hotham. Prominent Cricketers Blackballed. At a meeting of the Victorian Cricket Association last night, an explanation of the Australians regarding (heir refusal to play Shaw's Eleven, was read, and considered not satisfactory. A resolution was adopted, on the motion of Judge Williams, instructing a committee appointed to select teams to exclude Boyle, Blackham, Bonnor, McDonnell, Palmer, and Scott from any matches which might take place under the auspices of the Association. Melbouene, yesterday. Sailed, this morning : The s s. Waihora, for the Bluff. At the crowded meetings which have been held at Geelong, Sandhurst, and other towns of this colony, resolutions were passed similar to those adopted at the meeting held in the Town Hall in this city and at Ballarat, urging the annexation by Great Britain of the Western Pacific islands, and advocating the removal of Lord Derby from office.