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•■■■'■■'/ WELLINGTON. ... Wellington Cup. Matagot hurt coiningfrom Blenheim, and Fiahook is scratched for the Wellington Cup. Retirement. of Mr H. T- Clarke. Mr. H. T. Clarke, Under Secretary for the Native affaire, retires on pension this month. Mr James Mackay will probably succeed him. The. schooner Pelican is aahore at the mouth of the Manawatau. She will probably be got off. A slight collision occurred in the Straights | early yesterday, between the steamers Go-A-head and Huia. Neither were serioualy injured. ■ ' .Terrible Fire. A seven-roomed house, occupied by Mackenzie, a shoemaker, was burned on Saturday night, through a kerosene lamp bursting. His wife and six children were extricated, but one little girl aged four years, was left in tho building and burnt to death, A family have been nearly poisoned by eating rabbits poisoned with strychnine. A Yacht Missing. The yacht Garabaldi,,with three civil servants, ono the son of judge Halles, and another a son of Dr Pollen, aro missing. The yacht is reported to have boon Been on shove near the Heads, but there is no sign of the young men. The College ScandalMisb Jonca, of College Scandal fame, is announced as a lecturer.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume VIII, Issue 687, 4 February 1879, Page 3
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