AUSTRALIAN NEWS

Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2636, 18 September 1882, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN NEWS

[Bv Tbussbaph.J [.Per B.s. Bingatooma, at the Bluff] MELBOURNE, September 11. The seoretary of the Melbourne Cricket Olub has reoeived a cable message stating that the Hon. Ivo Bligh's team of oricketers sail on the 22nd of September for Australia. The team is exceptionally strong, and includes the Hon. Ivo Bligh (captain), Messrs Steele, Gr. Studd, O. Studd, Leslie, Bead, Vernon, and Tyleoote. The professional players a-*e — Barnes, Bates, Barlow, and Morley. The comet is distinctly visible from the observatory. It is considered the largest sinoe Donati's oomet of IS6B, and if anything brighter than that one. Many observers suppose it to be the comet of 1812, but that will take time to determine. "Van Suppes,'' the oomic opera from Bocoaoio, continues to attraot large audiences. It is spoken of as a work of great merit. The late Dean Baokhouse, of Sandhurst, left his property, worth about £150,0C3, to the Church. No provision was made for his relatives, some of whom are in comparatively humble oiroumstances at Sandhurst. News from the Oape tells of a serious outbreak of smallpox. Two to three hundred oases have occurred in the town. The mortality is greatest among the Malays, who are averse to precautions. The Executive have commuted the sentence of death in the case of Siebe (condemned for an attempt to murder Miss Maher) to twenty years' imprisonment with solitary confinement. SYDNEY, September 11. Sir H. Parkes' health is improving, but he is still too weak to be removed home. Many inquiries are made daily by oil olasses. On Sunday prayers wore offered in the ohnrches for his reoovery. Bishop Murray, who has had much experience in Europe, states that, with the exception of St. Paul's and the Sistine Ohapel at Borne, he never saw more imposing ceremonies or heard grander music than at the opening of the Cathedral in this city.