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A shocking boat accident took pluee on Boxin<j-dny nt Gcelong. Twenty persons, principally women and children, were capsized during a squall; ten were drowned . The boat was over-crowded and unseawortby. Alexander Todd, a teller of the Union Bank, ab«condod witu £1200. He was arrested at th<« Head; on loird the Claud Hamilton in company ot n voting woman nnmed Armstrong, who had m her possession £500, and a draft for £500 on Auckland. The Victorian eighteen won tlie match ng.unst the English eleven in one innings, with 21 runs to spare. Tlic match commenced on Bonng-day, and listed for the greater part of three dars. The average attendance on the ground wa« 15,000 each day. W. Grace took ten wickets, and his brotlier four. Tho eleven wont in on Saturday forenoon, and were all disposed of tor 100 runs before the stu~p* were drawn. W. Grace made 33 »nd was ihen clean bowled in the second innings; ho made 51. The profe«3ioimfs did little or nothug. The English howling was inrtitfcrent and easily played. The Victorian bowling win ctcellent. Allan Cosst ick's wa9 much better linn Mclnfyre's, Southerton's Lilly white's, or Weston's. The result caused little surprise.
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Waikato Times, 6 January 1874, Page 2
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