AUSTRALIAN. [BY TELEGRAPH- COPYRIGHT.] [REUTERS TELEGRAMS.]
[Received February sth, 1.25 p.m.] Sydney, Yesterday. Arrived : Wakatipu last evening. Fifteen inches of rain had fallen in Sydney since the beginning of the year. The necessary pi eparations for raising the Austral are now nearly completed, and it is expected she will be floated this month.
[Received February n, 2 p.m.] Melbourne, Yesterday. All attempts to float the ship Berengaria, at Barwon Heads, have as yet proved unsuccessful. Three hundred tons of cargo have been lightered, and a quantity thrown overboard. Several cases of brandy, chemicals and furniture floated, ashore, and fell into the possession of pillagers who looted the spiiits. A scandalous scene, amounting to a wild orgie ensued, and lasted for several hours. The police were powerless to interfere. A cricket match commenced here on Saturday betw een the .South Melbourne and St. Kilda Clubs. The former scored 529 with only six wickets down. Slight made 279 and Rosser 192.
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Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1652, 6 February 1883, Page 2
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159AUSTRALIAN. [BY TELEGRAPH-COPYRIGHT.] [REUTER'S TELEGRAMS.] Waikato Times, Volume XX, Issue 1652, 6 February 1883, Page 2
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