DOMINION NEWS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXIX, Issue 87, 1 June 1911, Page 5

DOMINION NEWS.

LAST NIGHT’S TELEGRAMS. By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dannevirke, Last Night. The first annual championship meet- j h:.g under (lie auspices of the North Is- | laud Dog Trials Association was com- | mcnccd at Maharahara to-day. Over one. liundred entries acre received from all j .over New Zeals ml. with a specially strong contingent from Canterbury. Mr. W. C. Biithorfonl. of Ciilvenlen, was judge. The Championship Long Head resulted as follows: —• !’. Bollock's i

(Christchurch! Sharp, 2i) points, i ; A. A. Frasers (Christchurch) Southern Star 28 points. 2; AW Wyte's (Waipawa) Hoy

27 points, 55; J. McDonald's (Dannevirke) Don. 2!i points, -J. There were thirtyeight competitors. Christchurch, Last Night. The Hon. T. Mackenzie and his private secretary, Mr. L. E. Johnson, arrived from Wellington by the steamer this morning, and left for the south by the second express. On Friday, Mr. .Mackenzie opens tile new post’ office at Balcintha. He will also attend the Dunedin winter show. Wellington, Last Night. 'The Tnrakina, which arrived at Wellington from London (his afternoon, brought 1(53 third-class passengers, including 30 assisted immigrants. There are Li domestic servants and three farm laborers amongst (hem, anil five wives who have come out to join their luisha ads. Mastertijui. Last Night. Mr, W. C. Buchanan. M.l’.. to-day handed a cheque for £IOOO to the Wairarapa Hospital and Charitable Aid Board as the first instalment of a donation of £4200 towards the erection of a home for incurables at Creylown. Ashburton, Last Night. The leader of the Opposition addressed a meeting of six hundred people in the Theatre Royal to-night, the Mayor presiding. The address was on lines delivered elsewhere, and no now notes were struck'. A vote of thanks was carried by acclamation at its close.