SYDNEY,

This day,

Tho Exhibition, up to the present time, has cost £223,000. It is expected that the total will amount to a quarter of a million. The receipts have been £14,000. Land Bill. Tho Land Bill, which the Council re jected, passed the Assembly by an over whelming majority. Sculling Race. A sculling match is being arranged be tween White, of Mercury Bay, Auckland, and Edwards, of Melbourne, for £100 a side on Paramatta River.
MELBOURNE.
Thursday. Arrived : Riugarooma from New Zealand, A Bank Robber Captured. A bank robber was captured this morn, iug. Ho is the son of a selector.
MELBOURNE.
Thursday,

There was a good attendance at tho races. The Oaks was won by Pctrea ; Rivalry, second; Nellie, third. Time : 2mius, 40i Srr.iNG Handicap.—Levant, 1. Plying Stakes.—Remembrance, 1. Royal Park Stakes.—First King, 1. ADELAIDE. Thursday. Arrived : Sadown.
The Hannah Mokau Wreck.
Boat Capsized-—Four Men Drowned-

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WAITARA, this day. A HOAT manned by seven hanils left the railway wharf for Mokau at 4.30 this morn ing with the necessary ccar for launching tbe Hannah Mokau. Whilst crossing tbe bar here she filled and foundered, four of the bauds being drowned, viz., Benjamin Gollop, Harry Tate, Fred Archer, and Geo. Turrell. Gollop leaves a wife and three children, Tate was only four mouths married, Archer and Turrell were lately seamen on board the schooner Nelson.
NEW PLYMOUTH, this day.
