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Hawke's Bay Herald, Volume XXII, Issue 7305, 29 October 1885, Page 3

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fjSSB VRIfMD PRKbB ASBOOTATIOF.J *•! ' AucKLiND, Wednesday. IBdward Lewis was to-day committed i>r trial on a charge of forgery. t deputation of brewers, publicans, others interested in the liquor ntdo waited on the Hon. J. Ballance Sfday. Representatives of the Press fere excluded at the request of the Imputation. jt At the annual meeting to-day of the Auckland Bine Association the balanceiheet was adopted after a warm discuslion. Mr J. C. Firth was elected preddent. i y Gisboenb, "Wednesday. '■]. The annual agricultural and pastoral show was held to-day, and was fairly successful. •The Harbor Board have agreed, on the advice oftiw Union Bank, to make the iniuimSsFof the £200,000 loan about to be issued in London 99, and to let £25,003 remain with the bank as the nnoleus of a sinking fund. V Bain is greatly wanted in this district. j Wellington, Wednesday. p H.M.S. Nelson is expected to visit Wellington next month. %' Sir Julius Tpgel will pr3bably not •return to Wellington until the latter fend of next month, and in the meantime »he will visit Otago and Southland. |T.Tne following Napier Exhibition awards are announced :— Speoial art Bee:tion, ornamental frame, E. T. Alien, honorable mention. Home industry branch: Model of harbor and break■water, F. E. Saunders, highly comfmended; round table, H. Howard, first prize ; rustic house and garden furniture, jEraest Jorgensen, first prize. S£- , Nklson, Wednesday. p.. The circuit sittings of the Supreme ■Court opened to-day with three charges fon the calendar. J. B. Mandall, charged Lwith the embezzlement of £35, the [property of the proprietor of H»dGeld's rphemiat shop, of which the prisoner jVaa manager, pleaded guilty, and j&alB eentenoed (to 18 months' hard plabor, Albert Love and John Gray, -with larceny, each received a igjentenco of twelve months' hard labor. W£l nuit for j/kdical separation, Walcott v. HWalcott, has yet to be heard. The ifiju&ge leavps Nelson for Belenheim on gptoesdaynext. EL'? ' Ohkistohubch, Wednesday. Wf:.Mt S. O. Farr, Secretary of the CanKterbury Acclimatisation Society, has jjsreceived from the committee of that and from a few other friends Igof. acclimatisation and the Wellington, and Napier Acclimatisation £100 to mark the appreciation |||bf the recipient's services towards the of English salmon into Ws&B country. BM&(At a special meeting of the old Hob|^Mtal and Charitable Board to-day it was by a large majority that it was Bafaiaeiirable that the hospital should be m a »eptffate inititution

apart from the management of the Board newly elected under the Act. TiMAßtf, "Wednesday. The Timaru Agricultural and Pastoral Association's annual show was held today. Over 4000 people were present. The weather was splendid. The show, taken as a whole, was exceptionally good, visitors from a distance remarking that the live stock was equal to any that could be seen in any other part of the colony. The merino sheep _ were_ a special feature in themselves, including many strains of imported stock. Horses, and implements, were well represented. In cuttle the exhibits were few buC good. Dunedin, Wednesday. A fine of Is and coats was inflicted today for laying poison in a garden, in the Icity. The charge was brought as a test case.