AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Tuapeka Times, Volume VII, Issue 393, 23 September 1874, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

bYDNEY, September 15th. The City of Adelaide calls at Levuka this trip with the outward San Francisco mail, in order to take Home the Governor's ultimatum on annexation. The Governor sailed for Fiji on Saturday night, accompanied by Messrs. De. Rebeck and Hutchison, Attorney-General •as legal adviser fur German Consul. The Fairlie, for Dunedin, left Foo Chow at the end of July with 196,0001 b. of tea. The Government have determined to carry on the San Francisco service on their own responsibility, if necessary. May Howard, actress, is drawing good houses in Sydney, The intercolonial gig race lost great interest by the illness of Henderson, one of the Victorian crew, formerly of Auckland, compelling emergency man to take his place. Henderson is recovering. A miner named Dacre was found murdered near Braid wood. Randwick Races. — Free Handicap, Conqueror ; Crown Plate, Maid of Avenel ; President's Handicap, Fitz-Fattendon ; Mares' Produce Stakes, Kingsborough ; Sydney Handicap, Garryowen ; Members' Handicap, Llama ; Waverly Handicap, Maid of Avenel ; Steeplechase, Duffer ; Randwick Plate, Dagworth ; Forced Handicap (dead heat^), Westminster and Stirling. Victoria, September 14th. In the drawing for the Bailarat ArtUnion, the first prize, value £2,000, was won by John Hannon, farmer, Mount Blowhard ; second prize, £750, by Bray, draper, Geelong. Three little boys made an unsuccessful attempt to throw a treiu off the Suburban line. The brig Alice Maud from Greymouth, was wrecked between Cape Barren and Cable Island. The crew and five passengers were picked up by the steamer Southern Cross, and brought on here.