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Evening Post, Volume XXI, Issue 39, 17 February 1881, Page 2

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

[UNITED FBSSS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, 16th February. The following eleven will represent Canterbury against Otago next week : — Messra. Ashby, Cotterill, C. Frith, W. Frith, Fuller, E. Fowler (captain), Fowke, Godby, Harland, Bedmayne, and Watson. Ollirier, Secretan, Corfe, and Leach are prevented from playing through business engagements. The above team is a very fair one in batting, but in bowling strength is nothing like what it used to be. A small shipment of cheese is being sent home by the ship Otaki as an experiment. If it is profitable, regular shipments will follow. Auckland 16th February. A conference arranged between the city school committee and the executive of the Board of Education terminated in an amicable settlement of all differences. The board conceded the point urged by the committee. The poll of burgess votes on the tramway question gave 317 for and 16 against. The voters were principally business men in Queen-street. The other city residents took no interest in the question. This Day. A difference has arisen between 'Jpittman, agent for the Australian Crioketers, and the Auckland Management Committee, through Pittman objecting to the terms accepted by Halifax in Dunedin on behalf of the cricketers that Auckland shall receive a quarter of the takings and a lump sum of .£SO. The dispute will not interfere with the match. Dunedin, 16th February. The Superintendent of Telegraphs has replied to a suggestion of the Dunedin Chamber of Commerce that the price of the telephone service should be reduced from iJI7 10s to 10s, to the effect that after careful consideration of the expense and labor which the establishment and maintenance of a telephone exchange will entail, the subscription has been fixed at the lowest sum which will afford a fair remuneration to the department. The commissioner regrets therefore that he is unable to make the reduction suggested, and as the number of subscribers in Melbourne, where the charge is .£2O, is very large, he trusts that the sum of 4»17 10s will not be found prohibitive. A meeting of the Chamber of Commerce was held this afternoon to meet Mr. Laby, a Victorian gentleman, to hear his experience of the process by which meat, butter, and other articles of food are preserved and exported from Australia to England. Mr. Laby made a long statement, and at its conclusion received a vote of thanks. This Dat. A man named James Come, 28 years old, unmarried, was drowned while bathing in Lovell's Creek. He had been 10 years in the colony.