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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7176, 30 May 1885, Page 2

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. Auckland, -FridayJ' %l At the sitting to-day of the/ elect* toral revision court f or the; 7 Oityfi North . a Spurious" claim " oroppßdl/' up. A protest was . entered Aagairi-ft! Mr J. Robs, of Sargood, Ewen and]; Co., being struck off the roll . fojft the freehold qualification for the piUotv ment upon whioh the firm's warehouse stands in Victoria-street, registered "I under the Land Transfer Act in the£ name of F. T. Sargood. The question^ was adjourned, in order that Mr J. Ifc Campbell, solicitor, might call evidence to show cause to have the name retained on the roll. Oonsiderable importance, is attached to the decision, as it is considered it will affect all joint stook'and other companies in the city by giving all shareholders possessed of £525 qualifioa-:-tion a vote. „ ' AA^A'AA.'*'^ : Charles Hoy, an old man, ; dropped; dead to-day at Otahuhu. Heart disease' was the cause. Deceased had been! drinking. AThe Bteamer Macgregor has been 6uo-\ cessfully floated off the rocks at Kawa' and beached at Bon Accord harbor,; where 6he will be repaired aud brought" in to Auckland. - - f> The City North licensing committee,; have notified to no less than six landf t lords of hotels the committee's object , tion to renewing the licenses on the; grounds of Sunday trading, insufficient/ accommodation, and the hotels not*being required in the neighborhood. Steps are being taken to canvass the city for establishing a company with a capital of £60,000 to work Lamonte 'a patent for gold-saving. Mr T. Thompson, the ' member for City North, addressed his constituents to-night. He expressed' his. regret that the present Government was hot formed: on purely party lines, and he saw ho hopes of it next session, or indeed in the I present Parliament. He utterly de-- 1' 1 nounoed the distriot railway purohase ( scheme, and deprecated the enormous defence expenditure through the war/ scare, and he thought the expenditure' should have extended over a sericsofyears. He was averse to the annraition of Fiji to New Zealand, and/ Jr.. ferred federation of the Empire to '" federation of the Australasian colonies. , A vote of confidence was unanimously accorded to Mr Thompson. Haweea, Friday. The only particulars as yet to hand I respecting tbe Opunake fire, by which Prosse-'s hotel waß destroyed, are that the fire commenced about 3 o^clock at the west end of the building. Some ' shavings in Mr Duffell's furniture shop on the opposite corner caught fire, but it was fortunately discovered in time, otherwise there is no doubt that several j buildings between Duffell's and Orowther's would have gone. The cause of lhe fire is not known. The building - ; was destroyed with extraordinaryrapidity. The fire was first noticed about half -past 3 o'clook. and .by 4 '-. o'clock the building was totally-"de-stroyed, there being a. strong wind ?> blowing at the time. Whether the fire = broke out in the billiard-room or the A store-room appears to be uncertain. A quantity of furniture was saved, but nothing of any great value. Gisborne, Friday. ''- A Great anxiety is felt here for the safety of the barque Loohnagar, whioh left here 142 days ago for London, laden A with wool, during which time nothing A has been heard of her. She had only ' - one passenger, Mr Keeple. A Wanganui, Friday. ; Mr Bryce will address his constituents at Waverly to-morrow night, aud ; !. at Wanganui next "Wednesday. --^/ r ~~A$ > Wellington, Fridayf A passenger by the Foxton coa_h; who got in at Foxton yesterday, )vaß. ■ < found dead last night when this coach •'>• arrived in town. From papers found it- f is surmised that the deceased was AJvtMAA Wilding, who had been engaged ,;isWer-. ' A%seer on the Wellington-ManaWtitu raij-- f|" way. He h ad a daughter who is school- \At mistress in Marton, and itus. believed.. Ji that he had friends in Oamatii." , l^STild-;-^: ing was on his way to the Weilm|wß^_j| The Appeal Court sat thia morn^flH

and delivered the following judgments : —In the case of Queen v. Buckley t (Ohristohurch), cohviotion affirmed. - In "the? first case Regina v. W. Waring ( ' Taylor the conviction was quashed ; in the second case the conviction was upheld^.and Taylor will be brought np for y sentence at the next criminal sittings of *■■■ the Supreme Court. ' The Government have received an . official intimation that the New Zealand ' loan has been, plaoed on the London market at the minimum of 97_. The manager of the New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company has received a cable message from , London to the effect that the meat by -. the Ruapehu has arrived in bad condi- ' 'tion in consequence of tbe piston of the , freezing machinery having broken on j the voyage. . The following is the mail time-table . ..for the first round voyage of the Island . steam service :— Leave Dunedin July '_";■ ; 4, (arrive at Lyttelton July 5 ; leave ; .Lyttelton July 6, arrive at Wellington July 7 ; leave Wellington July 8, arrive , .at Napier July 9 ; leave Napier July 9, .-, -.-. ' arrive at Auckland July 11 ; leave Auck- i A^y land July 15, arrive at Tonga July 21 ; j yA leave Tonga July 23, arrive at Vavao A, July 24; leave Vavao July 25, arrive „ at Samoa July 27 ; leavo Samoa July k 29, arrive at Tahiti August 5 ; leave -.

Tahiti August 7, arrive at Raitea August 85 leave Raitea August 8, arrive at - Rarotonga August 1 1 ; leave Rarotonga August 15, arrive at Auckland August , 23 j leave Auckland August 24, arrive at Napier August 25 ; leave Napier August 25i arrive at Wellington August „^.,..,26; Jeave.Weliihgton August 26, arrive ■'■-■ '-at Lyttelton August 27 ; leave Lyttelton - August 27, arrive at Dunedin August 28. Messrs Donald and Edenborough, of Auckland and Rarotonga, are the contractors, and the steamer is the Janet Nicol, 763 tons. She is expected here to-morrow from .Rarotonga direct, with a cargo of fruit, and proceeds the same day to Lyttelton and Port Chalmers. The (t Silver King " oompany, after a most successful season here, extending over a month, left this evening for %■■"} Napier and Auckland, Later. At the inquest to-day on the body of , the man Wilding, who died in the coach on the way from Foxton to Wellington, the post mortem examination showed that death had resulted from the diseased condition of the deceased's heart and lungs, and a verdict was returned in accordance with the medical testimony. Christohurch, Friday. Robin Hood's consultation on the Birthday Handicap and Grand National Steeplechase closed with 13,280 shares. The first prizes were drawn as follows : — Birthday Handicap, £900, by a tentmaker of Blenheim; Grand National, of £270, by a farmer of Selwyn. In the special, for which 1850 shares were Bold, the first prize of £208 was drawn by a cordial maker at Southbridge. At its meeting to-day the Canterbury Chamber of Commerce resolved to interest the other Chambers of this and the Australian colonies in a combined effort to reduce the charge on cable messages sent by the New Zealand line. The Chamber also resolved to send to the South Sea Islands to enqnire, in the interests of this part of the colony, into all matters of commercial interest there, the cost to be borne by subscriptions raised in Canterbury. The Women's Gospel Temperance Union, organised here by Mrs Leavitt, have resolved to take vigorous action in the city and suburbs. They have been divided into districts for the purpose of a house-to-house canvass by the ladies, and publio meetings are to be held monthly. Dunedin, Friday. *~ A man named W. B. Stanly, while cleaning some spouting on the roof of the City Hotel, slipped and fell through a skylight a distance of 35 ft on to the i.asphaltein the back yard. He is not expected to live. . Mr Macandrew addressed hia constituents at Port Chalmers this evening, and received a unanimous vote of confidence. He deplored the centralism r which existed, and believed that no * form of local government could be .:. satisfactory under that Bystem. He t , etill thought something might como of „..• 'his motion for the crofters, and he advocated that the same faoilitiea proposed ... for them should be given to theunemployed in the colony. He did not . believe the Governmont would call out the militia without the sanction of Parliament. It was not his intention at the end of the present session to seek re-election, owing to the late hours to - , .which Parliament sat. If it conducted its business during the day he might alter that determination. As a means of- removing the present depression he advocated the establishment of a State Land Bank, which could be worked in conneotion wifch the Land Transfer Department.