GENERAL TELEGRAMS [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, This Day.
The Chairman of tho Canterbury Chamber of Commerce, in his usual address, eaid that as the managoment of the railways would pass undor the control of the Government on Ist Jannary, the committee consider*)/ 1 , this a favourable opportunity to- press for f. revision in the claßsifioatiSn and a reduction in the rates hitherto charged to users of the railways in the district. The matter had V to the Railway Committee of uiie Chamber, who had been - requeflted to confer with the Canterbury Progressive Liberal Association in the matter. Auckland, This Dat. Mrs. Yates states that, notwithstanding hor defeat for the Onehunga Mayoralty, she will again contest the seat. „ At the Supreme Court, Judge Conolly sentenced George Murphy, Michael O'Brien, Eobert Martin, Jas. Thompson, and George Walters, to seven years' penal servitude for assault and robbery, stating that if suoh crimes continued he wou'd be compelled in f uturo to pass even severer sentenoos, as tho law allowed penal servitude for life and three floggings. Dunedin, This Dat. Of 49 presentations in the yearly gnnnery examinations, the Dunedin Navals had 47 passes.
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Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 131, 1 December 1894, Page 2
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190GENERAL TELEGRAMS [UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.] Christchurch, This Day. Evening Post, Volume XLVIII, Issue 131, 1 December 1894, Page 2
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