AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VIII, Issue 1264, 7 March 1881, Page 2

AUSTRALIAN CABLE NEWS.

♦ — MELBOURNE. Saturday. A company is being formed here to undertake the refining of sugar ; capital, £100,000. The third day's races of the Victoria Racing Club's Autumn meeting took place this afternoon at Fleiningtou. The Newmarket Handicap, three quarters of a mile, was won by Aspen easily in lmin. 16}secs, Waterford, 2 ; Terrific. 3. 27 horses started, and was a pretty race. The Town Plate was won by Grand Flaneur, Sweetmeat, 2 ; Progress, 3. . -Sunday. As the turret ship Cerberus was practising yesterday afternoon, near the rip in Port Phillip Bay, she was suddenly blown up by a torpedo. Five men on board were blown to atows j one man was sared. SYDNEY. Saturday. The cricket match between the Australian team and a Combined Eleven of New South Wales and ] Victoria was resumed to-day. The Australians were all disposed of for 155, being 42 less than the total of their opponents in the first innings. The C >mbined team then went in for their second innings, but play was stopped by the inclemency of the weather when they had put together 74 for two wickets. There was a large attendance at the match. ADELAIDE. Friday. Earl Kimberly has telegraphed to the Governor, declining with thanks the offer of a number of volunteers in this city to proceed to the Cape for service against the Boers.