TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 74, 28 February 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

PREBB A^OOIATION.) '.''■'■ Oamaru, Fob. 26. ; A few day 8 since the licensee of the Queen's' Hotel was charged with keeping . a house open. 15 minutes after the hour. , The. Resident Magistrate, after , hearing the case, dismissed it, as it, was shown that no one. was m the bar. To-day the ilicerising Committee have forwarded .awritten protest against the Magistrate's action. , ■'■■'■■'■ ■■■■'■ ■ , "Cheistchurch, Feb. 26. •The first prize (£IOOO odd) of Robin Hood's Consultation on the Dunedin ..Gup has ■been won by a journeyman tdi- ! lor .here ; the second , (530) by a number i of men eniployed m a coalya,rd at the railway , station ; • the tbir4, $J00) : by ay'! billard marker m LytteltoiiJ , ! ,- ,- r Auckland,^ Feb.r 26. I It is understood that the • Government j S have arranged with the directors of the Rotpruft^ Railway Company to take, over twosedtions of the line reaching a point beyond Oxford, and have also arranged with the company to construct the remainder to Rotorua. \ A ladi named Driffle : was drowned at ! Tar&ril'yesteiday, througn tne "capsizing of a boat.; .■•_;