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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXI, Issue 6978, 4 October 1884, Page 2

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— — ♦ [PEB UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.! Auckland, Friday. The brigantine Ada 0. Owen, from Raratonga, brings news of a great fire at Tahiti early in September. Thirteen stores were destroyed. Henry Mitchell, of Hikurangi, Whangarei County, who had twice before attempted suicide, completed his purpose at Kamo yesterday by cutting hia throat. Whilst playing about a canoe in the Waikato River, a boy named Harold Brown, aged 7 yearß, fell into the water, and was pluckily rescued by a little girl : named Martha Davis, who was in the canoe at the time. On the boy rising to the surface she caught him by the hand: and held him above water until assistance came. At the Supreme Court to-day Frederick Owen waa sentenced to _ years' imprisonment for forgery. The City Council have accepted a tender for the ereotion of a small-pox hospital. Woodville, Friday. At a meeting of the Blue Ribbon Army held last night, resolutions were passed condemning Mr Steward's Licensing Bill, and the proposals providing for compensation and optional endorsement of licenses, also censuring the action of Mr Smith, the member for the. district, in proposing to extend the licensing dis-, tricts, but supporting the extension of the franchise to women. Wellington, Friday. Mr Stout returned to Wellington today. '': The North Island Trunk Railway Committee this morning took the evidence of Mr Wilkinson, native interpreter, of the Thames. The committee have now finished taking evidence. . .. In the House to-night, on the motion of the Minister for Publio Works, one week's, extension of time was. granted to the North Island Trunk Railway Committee, in whioh to bring up their report. . Uhbibtohubch, Friday. The racehorse Krupp waa injured internally during the voyage from.Auckland to Christohurch ia the Rotomahana in the beginning of the week, and may not be able to go on the course. for a long time. '