TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXI, Issue 4827, 11 September 1876, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(PEK PRESS AGENCY.) Invercabgill, Saturday.

Roberts played a game of 750 up with Cowan, a local amateur, yesterday afternoon, giving him 458." The players were both at 657, and Roberts ran out when the amateur was 684, . winning by 66. He afterwards played three games of pyramids with the same gentleman, when the champion got only one game out of the three. In the evening he plajed Hanson, giving him 600 out of 100 C. Roberta played badly, having been on a rabbiting excursion in the forenoon, and was knocked up. Manson was in capital form, and when the game was called the score stood —Manson, 1000 ; Roberts, 594. Dunedin, Saturday.

ICeogh made a violent .attack from the stage last night on the Guardian and News. A warm reply is given in the News this evening. The argument for a writ for the release of Haughton was heard by Mr. Justice Williams to-day. The grounds of the rule were that the warrant was wrong in form and that the justices had not acted in accordance with the Act. His Honor said the warrant was bad in form, but if the prisoner was discharged upon that warrant he would grant another for his detention. He declined to interfere with the discretion of the justices in not allowing bail, so that as no purpose would be served by obtaining the writ, the rule was discharged without coßts.