TELEGRAMS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume IX, Issue 1746, 5 October 1887, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PBBSS ASSOCIATION). WELLINGTON, October 5. The meeting of the Opposition cannot be held to-day, and has been postponed till to-morrow or Friday. At the Supreme Court, Tyler, on two charges of breaking and entering, got three years' penal servitude on each charge, to run concurrently. A rabbiter named Frank Lewis was drowned while crossing a flooded river at Akitea in the Wairarapa. In consequence of a disagreement between the senior and junior football clubs, a series of resolutions hostile to the latter has been called for a meeting of the Rugby Union to-morrow night. At the last meeting the junior delegates outroeted the seniors, and caatf ed all before them. An attempt is to be made to obtain a preponderance of voting power by union of the senior clubs. If not successful it will probably lead to a serious split among football clubs. BLENHEIM, October 4. The Awatere Rabbit Board has ordered a shipment of stoats and weasels, to cost £200. INVERCARGILL, October 5. It is rumored that unless Mr. Hatch makes a public apology, the returning officer at Invercargill intends to enter an action against him for the charges made at the declaration of the poll. NEW PLYMOUTH, October 5. The Hawea arrived last night, from Manukuu, with the northern members ; and a special train left here this morning, for Wellington, taking the following members :— Sir F. Wbitaker, Hon. W. Swanson, and P. Dignan, M.L.C.'s ; Sir Maurice O'Rorke, Messrs. Hobbs, Moss, Hamlin, While. GoMie, S. Thompson, Monk, Lawvy, Tiiiwhanaa, Fiaser, Mont, Withey, Milchel.-on, R. Thompson, Peacock, Bam uel, and Marchant, M.H.R.'s.