INTERPROVINCIAL.
(Per Press Association.) Wellington, Oct. 5. Thi* afternoon Sir J. Vogel, on behalf of-the members of the Treasury staff, presented Mr Best, late cashier, with a beautifu) and costly set of plate manufactured from Thames Btlvef by a local jeweller. There about a dozefi of the staff present. Accompanying the presentation was a letter signed by the dpaort expressing the esteem in which
Mr Best was held during bis long connection with the Civil Service. The mli.e of the plate wasneirly LIOO. The fourth Annuil Exhibition of ti e Fine Arts A«s ciation w«3 npenc 1 'hi ! afternoon by his Excelleucy the G'ven°r’ Oct. 5. It is understood that Wiffiam Pea»c is ab )ut to take legal proceedings against Allan Whitfield, chemist. Maiming darn* a<'es in connection with the recent action brought by tho latter against Peate. Dunedin, Oct 5. The Hiuh School Governors find themselves so short of funds this year as to be unab'e to appoint paid examiners. Auckland, Oct. 5. A lino of 2,500 tins of sardines, found, on being landed from one of the vesiels, to be bad, wa3 destroyed by order of th e Magistrate. THE TIMARU POISONING CASE. Christchurch, Oct. 5. Thomas Hall left Lyttelton for Tim aru this morning. One report s' at-.s that the removal is in connection with the exhumation of Cain’s body ; another, that he has gone at his own request to dispose of eertain property before the trial. AWFULLY SUDDEN DEATH. Dunedin, Oct. 5 An awfully sudden death occurred just as the Supreme Court had riseu. The Deputy-Registrar, Mr A. D. Harvey, fell down on the floor and died almost immediately.
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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume VIII, Issue 1977, 6 October 1886, Page 2
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