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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7193, 19 June 1885, Page 2

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[PBB UNITED PBBBB ASSOCIATION.] >; ;^fll Auckland, Thursday .y;?£%fg By the Manapourl to-day MrV^^^ Ohadffick'a team, coasting of NJbw M^l. I^ear, Whalebone, Robin Hood^fJUtt^^ Play, and o,ujilpj were eonveysa r pj^'§| Napier to fulfil engagements &h ''-Mal '."j^ forthcoming steepleohase r meetijigV^^g Several local penoillera were paßßengerfl.^ ;^| At a largely attended meeting tb-dayj?:?^! of licensed victuallers, wine and* Bpiriit-i^gj merchants, and others interested in-|he^| liquor traffio, ifc was resolved to ;send^S|| two delegates (not yet named) to lington to further the amendment jotj3&'igs-^ diaqualification clause in the lAcepktffi%sFp. Act by rendering members of totall^%i| abstinence societies, &0., who are txiiderivi^r sworn obligations ineligible to sitV<>tt|yif;| licensing oommittees equally . ' -witny|^s brewers, &c. . '\''\f&ffiM The Grammar School Governors hja^e|||| resolved to ask Professor Sharid, '^ffsji Dunedin, to aot with Professors Tqplc«r£ps and Brown in conducting the enqniryv^ into the working of the ' Grammar: ■£% School, with which considerable diaaatis-:^ faction has lately been expressed.!-; \?^.:&i| The financial statement prepared ■;by|f^ the committee of the City douri^^ shows the expenditure to be £2O,oO()..|hlsf:^ year more than the receipts. ■■■? : '?s%kM An analysis of the contents ( ot : thg|f| niomaoh of th,e. servant gicr O'Bri(9||i^ who died at Ponsoriby, showed vtfi|fc^ death resulted from arßenioal poisoning; .^: Mr Justice Gillies has ' ref ases^the|4| writ of habeas corpus, applied for ;by||| eoufis^l-6fl-b9lia^jofl^xwell/ar^eßtedjil for the. murder atl3t. Louis: sfi6Tffp^fi<f^u cation was based on several technipaksfj questions connected with the extradition!^ law. •■•. "h&T&g*?. WflitiNGTON, Thursday %*}'ss At a meeting of the Te Aro lipenßifiig is| committee to-day the two applications H for renewals adjourned from tKe pr«| Al vioiis meeting were granted. / -•'%£?& 4t the Magistrate'a Ootirt/ioidaj;^! judgment was given in a caß^.oJ sojfieX« importance to publicans. , The < j^Sr^ prietor of the Oxford Hotel was .chafiy3||? with Sunday trading, and Beyerai>^|*f§ nesses swore that they had be£n invitee!^ to drink with the barman. PbrltKe^eT^i fence it was contended that -there ;-j"^ftf« been no evidence to show that tfiete^iiidll been any illegal sale. The barman md^ the right to consume liquor hinaJerflSti?^ Sunday, and therefore he had the rigKtt| to treat his friends. The . ' naftgia;t^aje;l| failed to see the force of the argument;?! and convicted the defendant, but hoped j the oaße would go before the AppJ|l| Court, as a decision of a higher Co.nrtJ was muoh wanted onthia and otMfJ kindred points. It is probable an. apj^ljj will be lodged. " : \ rv ~^S A trial trip haß been made 6ver| W miles of the Welling ton-ManawatuJ Si 19 way Company's line. Approbation unj expressed at the easy gradients, at the engineering skill shown; an % construction of the line. It wiUiih^.^ ever, be some time before any ":pprtup| of the line is open for traffic. : ': . The main hall of the Exhibition b^i| inp; is completed, and space for ejdul bitora is being marked off. ; ■■'■; ; "i|felf Hokhika, Thufada^a A meeting of policy-holders 'injptjiii Government Life Inauranoe Assbc|||^£ was held this evening. The followp| resolution was passed :—" That 5 itt^g opinion of this meeting the proppßWjtol establish local boards in conneotidni|^m the association is totally nnnaceßiwyil and if carried out will greatly morea'sel the cost of the aaaooiation without Jre-J suiting in any corresponding beuefit»»,TO] the polioy-holdew." There. were^ixf^ four policy-holders present, and'; Omg three voted against the resolution. .The floods and the gale have gre»t|l übsided. The harbor training wall vhal baen slightly injured. . The portion com! pleted and the brickwork remain mtaoifl but the section in course of progr^sß)ha been damaged, ten perches being oaniM ont of perpendicular. J ' ijl»^i^S Ohbistohtjboh, Thufsaayjjß At to-day's meeting of the Board* Eduoatlon it was resolved not to jft^pa| a suggestion from the head-master|jH Christ's College to open the GqveriH ment soholarshipa to others than' paplß of State schools. =.• . i'T^^M The New Zealand Shipping ComparM are advised that the Aorangi arrived -pm Hobart from Plymouth at 8 a;rni|«q day, all well, and Bailed, at 4 p.tnl^fm Auckland, calling off Port Ohalmers'^ttj land mails. : > . : s^lfcJ The Belfast Freezing Companyiatj making additions to their works^^hip will be completed abpuirthe^i^Jli November, and comprise storage aoijoja modation for 6000 more "sheep.)- i'^i killing and freezing capaoity 'of gtb works will be raised from 425 sheep pi diem to GSO. / s^l Timabtj, Thursday^ Luoas, for escaping from penal £&£}■ tude, was sentenced by the R.M^^Hj day, under section 7 of the Prisons AM to thirty days in irons and BolitaryJcoH finement, and twenty-four daysflfl bread and water. A kit containfm eandwiohes and brandy was piokedffl close to where he hid yesterday. v^W Dttnedin, Thursdayfi Two five-roomed houses at Caveriham owned by Mrs White and John' Marrjfl respectively, were burned down ; ?.l^ night. The insurances are— SfrsWhiVfl house, £250 in the South British offioH the furniture, £75 in the Colonial offiM Mr Murray's, £250 in the London^ajH Lancashire office; furniture, £100 |M the Union office. ir^^iß Dr. Yon Haaat met the committee|H the Chamber of Commerce tO'daj^Hj diaouas the question of the exhibition'^ products at the Colonial and ! Indi<H Exhibition in London. A conimi|H was appointed to classify exhibnfl^H confer with the Manufacturers' -A^^H ciation. Mjl^^H The Manufacturers' Assooiation'h^H adopted a circular, and alsotelegrapßßj to the Premier, respecting their.obpH tions to the proposed amendment ittjjß Faotories Act to limit the hours'o(j|^H to eight hours per day, "^IH Three handsome boxes, of New ZeH land woods, lined, with sating have beß prepared for Mr Vincent Pyke. In eaj box there is a copy of " The Old FlagM printed in gold letters on satin. Thiß are intended for presentation each to the Queen, the Prince of Wal^B and the Duke of Edinburgh, ' i.^iH