NOTIFICATIONS.
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ELECTRIC LIGHTING-. ! GLOVE FIGHT. WELLINGTON, Nov. 24,. The Hon G. F. Richardson is gazetted 1 Commissioner of State forests. . Mr T. Grace of Carterton has been appointed Starter to the Wellington Racing , Club in place of Mr A. Young, who resigned, i Chief Justice Prendergast and Mr Jus- ■ tice Gillies are the Judges who will hear i the petition of Wi Pere against the return , of Mr James Carroll for the Eastern Maori i district. [ Heara has received a cable message . from Deeble, the promoter of the World's . Champion Sculling Carnival, stating that the races have been postponed. The experiment of .lighting the streets by electricity, carried out by Mr Walter i Prince, of Dunedin, was tried to*night, and ' proved very successful. 1 A glove-fight between Murpby and Fake t for .£25 aside resulted in a win for the > former. Jack Hall, the light-weight champion of Australia, has challenged Murphy, and the latter has accepted.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 6094, 25 November 1887, Page 3
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