CABLEGRAMS.
LATEST HOME AND FOREIGN NEWS. (SPECIAL TO PP.ESS ASSOCIATION). London, February 5. The President of the French Republic has sent a message to the Chamber, which expressed his devotion to Parliamentary a flairs. February 0. In consequence of the plague, three! weeks' quarantine is ordered at Malta, against arrivals from Southern Russia. Increasing rigor is used against the plague on the frontiers of Germany, Austria, the Turkish Principalities, and at' Italian ports. (KKCTEK'STIXECKAM, pekpp.ess association.) London, February 0. The Ambassador at St. Petersburg has been recalled. Lord Dufi'erin succeeds. DIRECT AUSTRALIAN NEWS. (.SPECIAL TO PP.ESS ASSOCIATION.) Sydney, February 7. Lord Loftus has been appointed Governor. The blacks are proving troublesome. They speared Captain Sydes. His companion. Hartley, escaped to the boat, pursued by the blacks. Mr. M'Elwraith, tlic Premier, has been re-elected. Mr. Maorossau, Minister of Works, will be opposed by Mr. Morgan, a local lawyer. In the return match, English Eleven v. New South Wales Eleven, the scores of the Englishmen in their first innings were as follows :—Lucas, 51; Hornby, (i? ; Ulyett, s(i ; Eminett, 0 ; Harris, 41 ; Penn, 3 ; Royle, (i : Absolom, 0 : Schultz, Hone (no: out), 4. At first tiie Englishmen seemed to defy the bowling, and the three first wickets were down for 217. i.iyett was magnificently caught by Evans, and then the wickets fell rapidly, the eighth being down for 255. C. I'annerman hurt his other hand in the same way at the last match, and
• j ijuitted the field. Three men have been committed for , trial in connection with the recent fatal pugilistic encounter at Windsor. '' Melbourne, February 7. ■ I Sir Charles Sladcn addressed his con'stitucnts at Portland yesterday, and ' c-hanic eri.sod the Council Reform Bill as truly liberal.
(I:KITKi:'.STEI.i:r;KAM. I'El: PRESS ASSOCIATION) Sydney, February 7. The Englishmen, in their first innings, scored 207 ; .New South Wales has two out for 53. Our fielding was bad; the English batting was splendid. Melbouhxe, February 7.
At a bush fire in the Colac district five persons were burnt to death, and three others hopelessly injured.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 879, 8 February 1879, Page 2
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