MISCELLANEOUS.

Colonist, Volume XXXVI, Issue 7735, 15 September 1893, Page 4

MISCELLANEOUS.

(UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) London, September 13. Messrs Trafford of Leicestershire, and Ernest Smith of Yorkshire, playing for the North against tbe South of England, made 254 runs between them in an hour and threequarters. Sbippinga of Australian Gold are being stopped at Egyntian ports for transference to the Eaßt, in order to save the oost of shipment from London. The Prince of Wales' yacht Britannia beat the American boat the Nevahoe in a race frow Cowes to Cherbourg and back by two fi__o_t_tS Miss Jenny Meghel of Brighton, is suing the Sultan of Jahore, the ruler of the state in the Malay peninsula for breach of promise. The 'Pall Mall Gazette,' commenting on ihe Mercantile Bank prosecutions, says that the dilatoriness of the authorities contrasted with the swift vengeance meted out to James Thompson for a technical offence is a caricature on justice. Hobabt, September 14. Tbe b.s. Dorio was signalled at 6 a.m.. She Bails at 5 p.m. for New Zealand. Sydney, September 14. A cable message has been reoeived announcing the safe arrival of the New Australia emigrants at Monte Video. Pabis, September 11. M. Charles de Lesseps has been released from prison. Washington, September 13. A dozen robbers seized the New York express at Kindabill. They blew up the safe with dynamite and stole a quarter of a million dollars. The sheriff's posse pursued and captured the bandits.