COLONIAL NEWS.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XVI, Issue 5356, 16 January 1879, Page 3

COLONIAL NEWS.

[B [FROM OCR OWN COP.KKSPOSDESTS.} Melbourne, January 15. f| Three prisoners have escaped from Williamstown. by forcing the casement. Apeuide, January 15. Millers'prices : Wheat, 4s 8(1 to 4s Sid, "] in large parcels. [g Brisbane, January 15. Tlie Queensland Parliament met yesterday. Mr. King was elected Speaker. jf| The members of the Queensland exgf ploring expedition have reached Powell's « Creek, South Australia. They lived on 3? ','ame latterly. . They uere unable to cross Dry Swamps, and killed three horses .'•i attempting it. They were relieved by thy occurrence of a thunderstorm, sf The latest news states that the New Caledonia insurrection is languishing. §1 JVo tribes have surrendered and been a S'.-ut to the Isle of Pines. Daly, master of the Heather Bell, has iJ been arrested, and the vessel ordered to ,i| the Fiji High Commissioner's Court. | CANTERBURY CRICKETERS BEAT i EAST MELBOURNE. H [KECTEK'S SPECIAL CABLEGRAMS.] |! Melbourne, January 14. I| In the match. Canterbury v. Bast Mel- || bourne the former in their first innings a 270. Tlie East Melbourne in their || second inninga scored 180. Tlie Cantar- || bury second innings, 99, without loss of || wicket, thus winning by 10 wicketj. || Melbourne, January 16. A The Canterbury Team played the Bohe- || "liana to-day. Canterbury, first innings, If I'SI ; Bohemians, first innings, two || tickets for 152. p A telegram states that tlie Loch Sunart, g| ou her return voyage to Melbourne, was || jrrecked on the coast of Belfast, Ireland. H jlt. Pearce, of the Loch Ard, sailed on H board.