AUSTRALIAN.

Colonist, Volume LIV, Issue 13276, 29 November 1911, Page 4

AUSTRALIAN.

[Puess Association—Copyright.]

Melbourne, Nov 28

Brookes lias announced that Lycott, tho fourth man, is unable to join the vhivis Cup team owing to business. Ilicc fills tho vacancy, and he is hopeful of safeguarding the cup. Mr Murray has decided not to resign tho Premiership, as he originally intended.

At the horso auctions Flavian was passed in at GuO guineas and Hoaiiga •(■■■as passed in at 270 guineas.

A return tablet! in the Senate shows that the press words received >'in* tho Pacific cable- during the yeas 1909 totalled 21,635, as compared vritu 163,726 words for 1911 to date; and via the Eastorn cable for tho year ending 1009, a total of 218,467 words, as compared with 220,214 for 1911 to date.

Sydney, Nov 28,

The Pacifiquo has brought news of an outrage at M'alekula. A native trading crow wont ashoro to buy yams and wore treacherously attacked, one being fatally shot ami two seriously wounded.

The Hospital cycling carnivnl was continued. Tim ii\t:>vti:uional pncod championship, tlireo miles, resulted: Mutton 1, Grondn 2. Holder '3. Won by a longth and a half in. 6.47,

It is feared that damage has been caused by tho heavy rain to the early wheat areas.

A severe storm and flood at Juneo did considerable damage.

Brisbane, Nov 28

Reports from the Western districts, show that the drought has broken, three inches of rain falling at some stations.