LATEST TELEGRAMS.
(Per Press Agency) WELLINGTON. January 2. There was a strike of operators of Telegraph Department to day, owing to extension of hours of working, and the abolition of overtime. About a dozen have gone out at Dunedin and Blenheim. Several have gone out, ami are fully determined to resist any extenlion of hoars and the abolition of overling,'. The strip, Western Monarch, from London, is now being towed in. Tulls. * January 2. Rangitikoi races, second day. Handicap Hurdles, 50 sovs—Victor, 1 ; Gazelle, 2 Maiden Plate—ilandwick,! ; Counts, 2 ; Commission 3. Rangitikei Handicap—King Quail, 1 ; Olawa, g ; Chancellor, 3. Ladies Purse—Astronomer, 1; Banshee,2; Abolition 3. AUCKLAND. January 2. Auckland Races.—Handicap ot 2J() sovs was won by Lara, who also won the Grand .'Stand Handicap.
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Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 489, 3 January 1880, Page 3
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124LATEST TELEGRAMS. Patea Mail, Volume V, Issue 489, 3 January 1880, Page 3
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