AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

Timaru Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 3409, 31 August 1885, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN CABLE.

(Per Electric Telegraph — Copyrioht.) (P.edter'h Agency.) (Eecaived noon, Attffuat 29th.) _ Hokakt, August 2!). Jnou.H. Doric arrived hero last night from London, all well. Shis li-nvos W New Zealand this morning. Adelaide, Angnst %). The wheat market is quiet at 3* lid to 4s. Flour, town brand*, £8 us lo £8 10a • country brands, £7 10b to £7 lgs.

I Received 1 p.m., August 29th. I Melbourne, August 20. It is announced that the colonies of Victoria and Queensland have agreed that the Federal Act shall como into forco on the Ist December next. Mr Service laid before the colonies a proposal for a meeting of the Federal Council at Hobart m January next, and he has submitted for their consideration a programme of suhjects to be considered there. Tho police yesterday succeeded m unearthing £240 moro of the stolen money which was buried by Robinson at Brighton , beach. i Received 0.10 a.m., August 31st.] Sydney, August 2i). The race meeting of the Tatterealla Club took place to-day at Randwick. The results of tho principal events are as follow : — Hurdle Race, of two miles—Confidence 1, Belle Brandon 2, Student 3. Tramway Handicap, three-quarters of a mile— Farewell 1, Prodigal 2, Wanda 3. Tattersalls Two-year-old Stake, distance half-a-milo ; for this event twenty-eight horses started. Halcyon won by two lengths, Signoretta being second. Time — 50aeca. Loftii3 Handicap, one mile and a quarter— Comet 1, Happy Thought 2, Folly 3. [Received 1 a.m., August 31st. ] Melbourne, August 30. Arrived — P. and 0., R.M.S. Tasmania, this afternoon.