AUSTRALIAN.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XXIII, Issue 157, 23 July 1889, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN.

Sydney, July 22. A new ooraet is visible here, its position b'ing right ascension twelve houre thirty minutes declination 35degs Bmins south. All the vessels that went ashore at Byron Bay, namely, the brig Fawn, and the schooners Bannock burn, Hastings, Spurwing, and Ague?, havo, with the exception of the Agnes, become total wrecks. Tho schooner Jessie Matilda bas been wrtoked at Ballina, and the ketoh Lady Lome was wrecked at the Olarenco, when one man was drowned. Twenty-four inches of rain fell within eight days in the Richmond distriot, and great damage has beon done to the sugar orop. Brisbane, July 22. Four prominent members of the Maori ; team have bsen suspended os regards farther playing with the team, upon suspicions that they attempted to lose Saturday's match, it being alleged that they were parties to a j betting swindle. Tha harqua Rosie Welt, bound from Newcastle to Singapore witb coal, went ashore on the New Guinea Coast. The crew nre safe. . Sydney, July 23, Intelligence has been reoeived of the safe arrival of Mr White's horses Kirk ham and Narelhm at Suez. Brisbane, Jnly 23. The Maoris heat Toowoomba by 19 points to nil.