AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

Auckland Star, Volume V, Issue 1490, 19 November 1874, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.

[Per Tarartja.]

ARRIVAL OF THE CITY OF MEL-

BOURNE WITH THE CALIFORNIAN MAIL.

A PROPOSITION RESPECTING FIJI

. Melbourne, November 12. The race meeting was financially, and in respect to attendance, the most successful held at Flemingfcon. £000 alone was realised on Cup days. Haricot's victory was good for the rim/, and saved many. Melbourne won tha Flemington plate, 3 miles, beatirg both Goldsbrough and Diver. Gaslight won the Oaks. — Governor Bowen. has received six months' leave of absence. He proceeds home as soon as Parliament rises. —Dr. Tracy, after a long lingering illness, has died.—Blondin has been very unfortunate as regards the weather. Monday, during the squall, his tent blew down.—The RevT J. T. Walker is elected Moderator of the Wesleyan Church.—The Marquis of Normanby and family leave Brisbane to-day for Syiney, en route for New Zealand.— Victoria won the cricket match against IS Adelaide cricketers by 18 runs —The City of Melbourne arrived three daya early, and made (he passage from Kandavu in three days four hours.—Two failures are reported —Henry Millo, timber merchant, and William Mitchell and Co., brewers, Richmond.

SYDNEY, November 14. The correspondence relative to Fiji is published, and shows that Lord Carnarvon made a proposition that four of the Australasian colonies, New South Wales, Victoria, South Australia, and New Zealand, should togethercontribute£4.ooo annually towards the cost of governing Fiji. The Assembly, by a majority of three rejected the motion to grant the lato Chief Justice a gratuity of £700.—A disturbance occurred at Ipswich betu-een the Roman Catholics and the Orangemen, owing to a lecture on "~1 he Monk that shook the world." A free fight ensued, and the police cleared tha hall.