INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume 12, Issue 817, 12 January 1867, Page 3

INTERCOLONIAL NEWS.

(From Melbourne Papei's.) Sydney, December 26. THE INTERCOLONIAL CRICKET MATCH. Ten a.m. — Mr. Pickersgill says that the Melbourne men are in fine form and good spirits. The Sydney men were batting well, but their bowling is weaker than ours. Thompson plays with the Sydney team. The betting is 6t04 on Melbourne. Gibson, Campbell, and Robertson are batting splendidly. The Melbourne men are bowling very well. Play commences at noon. The weather is fine, but very hot. Five p.m. — The Melbourne men went first to the wickets. The following are the scores made : — Turner, 4 ; Phillips, 1 ; Conway, 6 ; Robertson, 9 ; Gibson, 22 ; Greaves, 3 ; Campbell, 1 ; Cosstick, 11 ; M'Pherson, 0 ; Wilkie, 12 ; Wardill, not out, 0; Sundries, 5. — Total, 74. Four men were run out, and Campbell was stumped by the bowler before he delivered the ball, Campbell having gone out of his ground to make fast running. The New South Wales men then went in ; Belcher and Thompson going to the wickets. Belcher made 9, Thompson 16. Hewitt and Gilbert then got together, and showed some pretty play. The fielding of the Melbourne men was good, and Conway was dead on. Hewitt was caught splendidly for 19. Gilbert was playing well, and had just been joined by Caftyn, when he was caught out, having scored 16. Lawrence then went to the wicket. Melbourne playing very cautiously. — Total, 94 to this point, both Caffyn and Lawrence batting steadily. The stumps were drawn at six. There were scarcely 3000 people present at the cricket match, as there were lots bf other attractions. The Woolloomooloo regatta was a great .success. The weather in the afternoon was very hot, and thunderstorms were frequent. December 27. At the Central Police Court, on the 24th, the first case pf infringing the rights of a trade mark was tried, when Thomas Jacks was indicted for forging the trade mark on Lea and Perrin's labels. Other cases are expected to follow. The new Aberdeen clipper Australian arrived on the 25th, in seventy-five days from London Docks. This is the quickest passage ever made. The John Duthie, which was burnt and scuttled, has been, raised. .The Redfern Rope Works, Sydney, have been burnt down. About midnight a fire was discovered on the premises of Messrs. Neimkes, tobacconists, George street. It spread to Zuccani's furniture warehouse ; the premises of Goulstone, the clothier; Abraham, the hatter ; Marks, the clothier ; and Abrahams, the fancy warehouseman. The whole block of buildings at the corner of King and George streets was destroyed. Long's liquor store was damaged. The loss amounts to about £25,000, principally insured in the English offices. The barque Nautilus has been wrecked off Nobby's. Crew saved by the lifeboat. A magisterial enquiry, touching the death of Mr John Granville Greenfell, Commis- , sioner of Crown Lands, has been held at Narramine. The evidence went to prove that deceased met his death by a wound inflicted by two highwaymen, while travelling with the mail. One has since been arrested on suspicion. Adelaide, December 26. Sales of wheat were made this morning at 4s 3d per bushel, but in the affcernooi] i it was offering freely at 4s 2d. L The first cargo of this season's wheat left per Pakeha, for Auckland, this afternoon s Brisbane, December 24. i Fevet is very prevalent at the Gulf o: l Carpentaria. Three men ofthe Leichardi i search expedition have died of that complaint. J. D. M'Lean, late treasurer, and the » most extensive squatter in the colony, ha; 3 heen thrown from his horse near Toor. woomba, and died in half-an-hour. r A tremendous storm of hail, rain, anc £ thunder passed over Brisbane on the 18th The hailstones were the size of hen's eggs and did an immense amount of damage.