SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
FKOM OUR OWN COIIHEWPONDENT. DUNE DIN. January 2. Nine thousand persons attended the Caledonian games yesterday. The weather was glorious. The Champion race (three distances) was won l>y Maepherson: Hewitt, who started at scratch, was hemmed in, and threw up the sponge- in disgust. ■ The body of a man named Sydney Smith, a milkman, was found floating in the water opposite the Queen's drive, at the Ocean Beach. The Hawea has returned from the excursion trip to 3lilfoi\l Sound. She n;id !in-> *.v; j j{fc!• tr throughout. 7>lr. Uislop has In:en appointed penr.avii.nt socreriiry to the Ojulral Jj.iprtmenf. of Ktluca*i-jn, and is V.vj ic ;, d up.in Wellington nexr. week to org-iui.-v the department. The Cabinet will assemble in Wellington next week. wlien t!:c reor'.r;tnis:ition of the Civil Service will l>e eoi.siuered. The Opera-boulie Company lust uigln played Herve's Poulcfc and Pou'ette to one of t!:e largest houses seen in the Princess' for some time. Johnny Hall is reaping a harvest witii liis pantomime.
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Oamaru Mail, Volume II, Issue 521, 2 January 1878, Page 2
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