AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

North Otago Times, 3 December 1910, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

, By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Per Press Association. Received December 2, at n.15 p.m. Sydney, December 2. The -nsatch- between New South Walis and South Australia com-

menced in fine weather and on ';■.;:&■ good wicket. .South Australia, ■■' in thsir. first inning's; /scored 342—Dolling' (21), Cfem Hill (89), Gehrs (120), Chamberlain (35), and Mayne (22)' were tire cluci scorers. Scott captured four wickets for 48, Emery 3 for IPO. New South Wales has no wickets 1 down for 44—Truraper (not out) 2',) and Bardslcy 13. Hill showed much of his old form, • and Gelirs was excellent all round, and made a chancelcss partnership. He put on 1(50 in 94' minutes....

Received December 3, at 12.40 a.m." Sydney, December 2. -" Arrived—Navarino, from Aucklanflv A •clairvoyant residing in Melbourne has written to the Inspector-General of Police, claiming the £IOO offered for finding Miss Gibson; whose body was recently washed up. at Manly. She claims that shei was consulted when the girl disappeared and told her. parents, that the body would be found in the sea. The State Government has given thcFcderal Government ten square miles at Jervois Bay in connection with the capital site territory, instead of one; mile as stipulated in the Act, .