TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1699, 4 May 1886, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

♦■ • , (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Monday. The Rugby Union havo decided to offer tho New South Wales football team half the net proceeds of each match played. The Sydney team leave towards the end of August, and will probably play ftvo matches here* A cablegram has been fee tired from London announcing that the contract with the syndicate for the construction of the East and West Coast and Nelson railv. ay has beed assigned to the com* party, which is duly formed, and that its prospectus will appear m tho London papeis this morning. Poet Chalmers, Monday. A Masonic bazaar was opened last night with great ceremony by Brother C. Del Graham, m aid of tho local charity and bursary funds. Tho building was decorated with Masonic dtrices, and the ladies presiding ac tho stalls were emblematically dressed. Dunedin, Maxell 3. A fine of £5 was inflicted on a Dub* hcan for selling liquor on Sunday morning, Auckland, Monday. The Governor reviewed the local Vol. unteer torces to-daj\ He was accompanied by Colonel Sargood, of Victoria. He complimented them on their appearance. Over 800 were present. The weather was inclement. Masterton, Monday. : Bayne, a local pedestrian, commenced a 12 hours' go-as-you-olease this morning, m tho Theatre at 10 o'clock. At 2 o'clock he had covered 28£ miles, and had been sixteen minutes off tho track.*