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[By Telegraph.] (P<t P.v ( .sr Association.) Auckland, This day. Sailed at 12.80—Flora, for South. Passengers :—Mrs Probate ; Messrs Bland and Meek. The barque Nellie Brett left for New York and the Charles F. Crocker for Puget Sound. The committee of the Auckland Amateur Athletic Cycle Club has passed a resolution which is being forwarded to the N.Z. Athletic Association and Cyclist Alliance, suggesting that this colony be represented at the English championship athletic and cycling meeting on the occasion of the Queen's Diamond Celebration. Wellington, This day. No decision was arrived at by the Cabinet as to the Premier going Home. So far 123 claims for pensions under the old age scheme have been received here. The Minister of Justice caunot see his way to increase the number of wardens on the "West Coast. F. W. Meadows, superintendent of the late Wellington Exhibition, will be appointed by the Government to tour the colon}' and interview probable exhibitors to the Queensland Exhibition which opens in Brisbane on 10th of May, with a view of having a thoroughly representative show from New Zealand. A deputation from the American order of Oddfellows waited on the Premier pointing out certain differences in connection with the working of the Friendly Societies Act between it and the Department, and urging amendments in the law. The Premier asked the deputation to put their views in writing and said he would ask the Revising barrister of the Department to do likewise, and would then meet an impartial opinion on them. Ciikistouckch, This day. A committee of the Church Prohibition League communicated with the Premier drawing his attention to the fact that the secretary of the Dunedin Liberty League informed him that the agent of the League visited every polling booth in Dunedin, and could certify that two voting papers were issued to each voter. The Prohibition League know of no capacity in which any man could rightly enter every booth, and asks the Premier to inquire as to how it was that this irregularity was permitted. Di nemn, This day. The official liquidator's report re J. (i. Ward's Farmer's Association was filed in the Supreme Court to-day. It will be impossible ta send out a summary till to-night.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 276, 20 March 1897, Page 2
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