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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1197, 8 November 1882, Page 3

The concert at Parnell and Boylan’s Hall on the occasion of the Prince of Wales Birthday promises to he a big success. As the funds are to be appropriated for a charitable purpose we hope to see a full house. The programme in to night’s issue speaks for A northern contemporary etates that " the Protection of Telegrams Act—the most iniquitous of measures—eame into force on the 16th of last month. It provides that nil cable messages must be headed ' By Electric Tele-graph-Copyright.' Our cable messages are therefore headed in the rather absurd manner required by law, but we may mention if any of our readers er contemporaries desire to have the use of them they are heartily welcome, and we shall not attempt to enforce the penalties of the Act.” In some athletic sports recently held at Hyderabad, besides the usual foot-races and Jumps, there were such novelties as elephant and dalki (palankeen) races, and a menagerie handicap, in which the competitors were a monkey, a dog, a goat, n camel, a cat, a hen, a sheep, a rat, and a goose. Immediately after the start, the cat went for the rat, and the dog for the sheep, the monkey fled up a tree, and the rat ran up its master’s trousers, whilst the camel became dangerous, and had to be stopped.