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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6632, 21 August 1883, Page 3

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[PER UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Auckland, Monday,

Captain Grundy, the well-known, masv^ ter of a schooner, died suddenly of heart disease at Kaipara. The body of John Beaton, who was missing, was found at Papike Creek, Whangaroa. A gumdigger named Walter Black is missing. .He is' supposed to have been drownedj at. Northern Wairoa. His punt was found floating in the river with several bottles of grog in it. He was a native >of Bathurst, aged 53. He was formerly ; ; clerk at Messrs Downing and CO*K-* •"•■', - "■ Iri' the - celebrated Cambridge native ejectment case in which E. £. Walker waß 'concerned, a new phase has been entered 'yupon. " Tweiity writs of ejectment and for damages have been served on natives of the Ngatikawhato tribe. -ry. ■„ . Wellington, Monday. The Oxford Commission visited the quarantine station to-day for the purpose of taking further evidence. The doctor was examined, and stated that in his opinion the ship was in a clean condition. He attributed the outbreak of fever to the -germs of the disease having been brought on board from the emigration depdt.'at Plymouth. A number of the immigrants complained of the water that was used on board f>>r drinking purposes. Ah 7 'unoccupied store, owned by Mr Thomas' , Mills, merchant, was destroyed by fire this morning. The damage was About £100, covered by insurance in the South British. . •■>. Dunedin, Monday. The local Agricultural Society have been -granted 20 acres of the Sandhill reserve." It ia within two miles of the city, and will make an excellent show ground. *"" The refrigerating company will send 7000 carcases by the Fenstanton in September, and 9000 by the British Queen in ,„ October. «^- The. Town. Clerk of West Harbor has furnished the Council with a list of the the Bb'obks ; and papers he burnt. They include the rate books, valuation rolls, minutes of meetings, cash-book, ledger, and journal. He says, however, that he is very,.hazy about what has gone. Tito Dunedin School Committee are at loggerheads? with the Education Board. The/cp'mmittee declined to go on with repairs, to the school building because they" had hot the fiiride, to which the Board returned an answer expressing regret that the committee were unable to j perfprm their functions, and that the Board-would do the necessary repairs and deduct the cost from the committee's allowance. The committee to-night indulged'tin. some very strong remarks about the Board's conduct, and a statement was produced contrasting the expenditure of the two bodies greatly in favor of the committee. The result was the Harrying of the following resolution: — "That aa' the' Education Board is at present in heathen'darkness regarding the whole! financial' 'position and doings of the Dunediri School Committee we enclose oopy'of a "return" prepared by the chairman.'iffr -; ■ y Invercargill, Monday. An inquest was held to-day at the I "Woodlands railway station on the body of a Male child found in a water- hole near Woodlands last' Saturday; Dr Galbraith, having made a post mortem examination, gave, evidence that the body was in an advanced state of decomposition. 10 e supposed the infant to have been dead thre>ywee ks'. 7 The injuries were confined ..to the 'skull and a wound on the left arm. '*S* He dfii-Wot' think it had lived long after birtji, from the absence of any change in the umbilical cord, although 1 it had fully breathed/';' 7 He could not say whether the injuries were received before or after death. !;\ It had not,, vyhen born, boen attended by a 7/rnedical'nian of by a qualified nurse. On the application 0 f t Ud police the inquest was^adjournad for three weeks. No clue is yet obtainable wiih regard to the injury to ihe infant's, head, where there are very >-:•" exten'sivd'V, horizontal and vertical frao■:y tttrej.%3. ft V« ■■-•-' '-•*'■■- ,•-...--. .-•;.. Aa afctemjStf^as made -on Friday night

to fire the woolshed on the Benmore station. One of the hands saw the blaze of light, but it quickly disappeared. Afterwards he found that the floor and walls had been tarred, and that kerosene had been sprinkled about.