A , boxing match between Sullivan, ihe 'American champion, and Slade, the Maori boxer, came off on the 6th of August, and resulted m Slade being knocked out m the third round. Slade was terribly mauled. H'ss- Finney (stage name .Fortescue) baa married a sen of Lord Cairns, - Judge Gillies, who has been experimenting m sorghum culture, says, m aj paper read at the A ackland Institute : ; H These results astounded me, and prore \ sorghuin^ as a sugar producing crop, to; be fiiuablp beynd my wildest imagina- <*-■■ %' f"y ■'''■• ' ,■ .*'.. Mr Mackelvie writes that he is send^ ing a number of val uable" pictures for : the^Auokland Art Gallery. One of these is byr Armitage, R.A., and Mr MackeU tie has' b<;en offered £300 for it.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 247, 20 September 1883, Page 3
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