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Globe, Volume VIII, Issue 1022, 4 October 1877, Page 2

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[fee press agency.] Wellington, October 4. At a meeting of the Cricketers' Association last night they reconsidered their former decision regarding the offer to the Australian Cricketers, and the secretary was instructed to write to Mr Conway, informing him that the Wellington cricketers were willing to oiler the Australians half the gross proceeds of the gates, booths, stand, &c. The former offer made was the nett proceeds only. Dttnedin, October •!-. A volunteer review on a grand scale, attended by country corps, will be held on Forbury Park Grounds on November 9th. Messrs. Eeed and Fenwick's offer of employment to six married compositors on the " Daily Times " was refused. Westtokt, October 1. The schooner Sarah File has been got eafely oil', with little damage. A, mau named Daniel .Sullivan was committed to gaol for two months o* to pay £25

fine for lying across the rails in front of an approaching engine on the Mount Eochfort line. He did it for a lark.

PARLIAME NTARY. Last Night's Proceedings. Wellington, October 4. The following Bills were read a second (hue and passed through committee; read a third time and passed :—The Tokomairiro Farmers' Club Bill ; the Clyde Keserve Grant Bdl; the Lawrence Municipal Reserve Leasing Bill ; the Otago Girls' and Boys' High School's Bill; the Rabbit Nuisance Act Amendment Bill; the Oamaru Reserves Bill. The Forest Trees Planting Encouragement Bill was read a second time, and referred to the Waste Lands Committee. The Wanganui Harbor Endowment and Borrowing Bill was rend a second time. In Committee of the whole, an address to the Governor to place a bonus of £IO,OOO on the Estimates, one-half to bo given for the first 500 tons of beetroot sugar produced in the North Island, and the other half for the same quantity in the Middle Tsland, was agreed to, and the House rose at 12.35 a.m.