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Manawatu Herald, Volume I, Issue 53, 28 February 1879, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAPHIC.

(PER PEESS AGENOY.) WELLiN(_TON,Feb_ua- y 26. The Chronicle to-night Bays there is an undoubted split in the Cabinet v . Lu ckie's appointment to the Commissicnership of Annuities, which threatens the withdrawal from the Ministry of the Honorables Messrs Stout and Ballanoe, and possibly Macandrew, should Sir George Grey maintain his presont attidude of opposition to the said appointment. The Chronicle deprecates tbis course of action, and says— -"We do not care a straw whether Luckie does or does not get the billet, but the really important question is, shall the country be governed' by a constitutional ministry, or by the despotic will of Sir G. Grey." Wellington, Thursday, 7.55, p.UL In football case, vfhere boy sued for damages for injuries received from one of the players, the B.M. gave judgment to-day for defendant with costs, on the ground that the game was lawful, played in usnal manner, and in lawful place, and that plaintiff, an onlooker, should have been standing in what he must have known was a dangerous place. The Maori King's third wife eloped with a Maori, but they were pursued to Auckland and taken. Auckland millers havo reduced the price of silk-dressed flour to £12, seconds £10 9s. The much-vexed question of D. Luckie's appointment in Government Insurance Department . tvas settled in Cabinet this afternoon, and will be gazetted tomorrow — salary, £600. A new Masonic Lodge under the Scottish Constitution was opened today Mr M. L. Marks was in--.tailed Master. D unedin, Thursday, 7 p.m. The Dunedin Eaces commenced to-day. There were about 4,000 present. Maiden Plate.—King Qnail, 1 ; Milo, 2; Dundee, 3. flow race; won easily ; time, 2min 57£secs. Dunedin Cup.— Sinking Fund and Mata ran a dead heat for this event; Templeton, 3. Time, omin 57sec. Champagne Stakes. — Slander colt, 1 ; Fenelle, 2 ; Marie Antoinette; 3. Time, 1 mm 22£secs. Ladies' Purse.— Foul Play, 1 ; Eatcatcher, 2. All others scratched. Time, 2 mm 9secs. Balclutha, Thursday, 5.5 p.m. The Balclutha Corporation workmen, numbering about 30, and the raUway surface men on Toria section, and those Avorking here for the Publio Works Department, have agreed to give one day's pay to Kaitangata Belief Fund.