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Inangahua Times, Volume XVI, Issue 20226, 20 April 1891, Page 4

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stating he has founded a medal in the Royal Geographical Society is a mistake as he has done nothing of the kind. He thinks a probable explanation is that he has been awarded a medal for some geographical information he supplied some time ago. The City Council intend to spend £8,000 within the next two yeais and increase tbe wat r supply from the Wiiinaiomata. Blenheim, 17At 9.30 p.m., a fire started in the Marlborough Times Office, apparently in or close to the editor's room. The building was burned down along with Me Sherwoods, fruiterer, Holards cabinet-maker, and Card, bookseller. There was no wind and the other places in danger were saved though the fire brigade appliances were faulty. Nothing is known of tb.6 origin. Beckill, proprietor of the Times, was insured for £400 in the Royal and North German, and estimates bis loss at above £1,000. *■<■--•• ----- — Auckland, 17. A movement is on foot to light Auckland city by electricity. A ?yn» dioate announce they propose to apply to next Parliament for authority to supply electric light to Auckland, Wellington, and Christchurch. New Plymouth, 17. In the Supreme Court J. Salisbury was sentenced to three years for arson and on a charge of criminally knowing a girl under 14 years of age, was sen» tenced to 5 years penal servitude, sentence to begin at the expiration of the former pentenoe. The grand jury threw out the bill against Mary Ann Tiller for bigamy. Wellington, 17. Government have decided on making further retrenchment and the services of a number of officers throughout the colony in the Survey, Stock, and Lands departments are to be dispensed with. The saving is estimated to be £9,000 per annum, but details will not be permitted to be made public until those retrenched receive notice from the Government. Parliament will probably be called together for the despatch of bwines* on Thursday, June 4ch.

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