SPECIAL TELEGRAMS.
• «> [FROM OUK OWN I.'OIiIIESI'OKDBNT.] Cf PALMERSTON. December 13. At a imblie meeting, held last night at the Palmerston Hotel, it was finally decided to hold the local races on the 7th March, and a committee was appointed to draw up a programme. «. DUNEDIN. December 14. Otago won the rifle match against Canterbury by 9(5 points. The scores were—Otago Fifteen, 1331 ; Canterbury Fifteen, 1235. e, WELLINGTON". ; December 13. It has been decided to issue return tickets at single fares on all the North Island rail- ! ways for the Christmas holidays, on and after the 3rd inst,, available till the 6th ' prox. '
The time of the transmit by railway between Wellington and Peatherstone is to be reduced by forty minutes after the new year. < « CHRISTCHURCH. December 14. The entire Star and Garter and eight mares and fillies, all Clydesdales, the property of Mr. J. C. Williamson, of Auckland, to which place they were to go, were landed yesterday at Lyttelton, from the ship Mallowdale. They are in splendid condition. Several laud sales held here lately have not been a success. A period of depression in that line seems to have set in.
The weather continues dry and hot,
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Oamaru Mail, Volume IV, Issue 833, 14 December 1878, Page 2
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