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# (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ' Christuhurch, November 16. Nearly 2000 persons were present at the interprovincial lawn tennis match, Wellington v. •Canterbury. The weather was grand. Play continuedtill 6.30 p.m., and Wellington won the ladies' and gentlemen's singles and ladies' double, but lost the mixed and gentlemen's doubles. The late J, Twigger, of Addington, who some months ago endowed the Agricultural and Pastoral Association with live acres of land, has left the bulk of his estate, sworn under £17,000, to the Old Men's Home, the Lyfctelton Orphanage, and the Female Refuge, His widow gets an annuity, and £2300 is left in legacies to his doctor, servants, sons, and friends, and various benevolent institutions of Ohristchurch.
Auckland, this day. The steamer Delta caught fire on Saturday while on a voyage from Waikato Heads to Mercer, and the fire was suppressed with greatdifficulty. The steamer was injured to the extent of £6O, and cargo of fiax to £BO, The flax ignited through sparks from the funnel falling on it, The vessel is uninsured,
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2147, 17 November 1885, Page 2
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170TELEGRAPHIC. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 2147, 17 November 1885, Page 2
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