TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 34, 10 January 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

j (yNITED^PEESS ASSOCIATION.) j Dunedin, Jan. 8. !The Land Board inquiry into the alleged duinnrjasni at Waitahuna, m . Ttiapeka Cbunty; .has been fixed for the 2SJth instant. „••,..■•■. -.;." j '■ 'In the Nenthorn murder case two juirors were challenged by FitzGerald, and one. on behalf of each of the other .prisoners.- The- Crown. Proseeu,tor also : ordered five other jurors to stand asifle. Tj(ie case is likely to occupy two days. . lit has been. 'decided to set' Aside two idays for the ; Fire Brigade demonstration ati the end of this month, owing to the large number "of teams which have eiitered^ ; : ,- ■ -^ •The /tournament for the draughts championship of ihe Australasian colo* nijes was begun^to-day. There-are '&ur-\ teen' competitors, but only one repr'esentative^from Australia, viz.j a Sydney player, through &\e br six wera.expected. I ■ The Jockey Club committee considered a I letter, -to-nighf " from Mr Harley, of t : N;els6ri, owner .o'£tßlack Eose, asking' for reconsideration of the refusal of that horse's aQ<©ptanciß for the Dunedin. Cup. He enclosed a letter from the Blenheim Tjelegraph Office, which explained that the counter t :se!Lkthad.put the message notifying the acceptance under a blotting padvby mistake, and it was not discovered till next day v , jThe committee decided to sustain the refusal of the acceptance.