AUSTRALIAN TELEGRAMS.
MELBOURNE
December 20,
Richmond and Robin Hood (late Sylvia colt) are the best favourites for the Champion Race. H.M.S.S. Pearl sailed early yesterday morning with Commodore Hoskins. In the evidence before the Volunteer Commission it was recommended that' the defence of the Heads should be by forts arid two lines of 'torpedoes. December 21. There was a cricket practice on the ground this morning. All the men are shaping well. Sydney is believed to have the best of the bowling. All the Sydney Eleven are in capital form. Evans and Coates are bowling splendidly. Spofforth has not been very well. The batting is good. Scale and Thompson are both in good form. The eleven will play in a regular practice match on the South Melbourne ground to-morrow, and finally choos the eleven to-morrow night. . Tooher is out jof it, and the choice will be between Sheri. j dan and Scale.
Ramsay, the bank manager at Runnymede, was drowned in the Campaspe. Speculators in kerosine are endeavouring to raise tho market, Is 6d is said to have been paid ; large sales of oats took place at 3s 6d to 3s 7d. Breadstuff's unchanged. Carrants were sold by auction, in a large parcel, at sid.
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Auckland Star, Volume VI, Issue 1830, 29 December 1875, Page 2
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