DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 869, 28 January 1879, Page 2

DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS.

(I'.ErTEIt'.STELEORAM.PERrP.ESSASSOCIA'nOX.) Melbourne, Jan. 27.

Wheat (Adelaide), 47s to 48s.

Melbourne Exhibition tenders have been opened. Seventeen tenders were received, and David Mitchell was the successful tenderer. The case of a woman who died while pregnant has created suspicion, as it is believed a well-known surgeon procured abortion. The body has been exhumed. An accident occurrsd on the Gipps Land railway on Saturday night, and several passengers were injured. Jock M'Laren, the popular agitator from New Zealand, was denounced at a meeting of unemployed in Sydney. He was also ignominiously expelled from a meeting of the seamen of the A.S.N. Company, for inciting them to continue the strike.

Brisbane, January 27.

Mr. James Foote will oppose the reelection of Mr. Thomson, the Minister of Justice.

A female child,- from the Orphanage, died in service. An examination showed her death to be the result of rupture of the liver and external bruises. Elizabeth Ellis, her employer, has been charged with manslaughter. Sydney, January 27.

Lord Harris' team, second innings, 217: New South Wales, second, two wickets down for 83 runs. In the New South Wales team's second innings Charles Dannerman split his hand between the first and second fingers while .fielding a hard hit to midwicket. Bannerman made 15 ; Thomson, 9 ; Murdoch and Massie are playing steadily, and not out. There are 15,000 persons on the ground. At the anniversary regatta, in the Outrigger Race for the champion belt, Laycock beat Trickett by eight lengths.