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Marlborough Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 264, 19 January 1888, Page 2

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SUCCESS OF THE AUCKLAND MUNICIPAL LOAN. LFGTjSf L SG\F.P EIGUTA IN NEW : • • ’v.uiNiuv. ■ THE NEW GUINEA COMMISSIONERSHIP. Pur lileetric Telegraph - Copgn-ght United Press Association Received Jan IS, 7.-id p.m. London, Jan 17. •Hie Colonial ’ oiftto ouphoritjeg apo drafting an Ortjen-in-Oouutffl proclaiming sovereignty over the British Territory in Now Guinea. The Hon W. Macgregor, (.'.MG, of Fiii will .shortiv replace Mr Toiin Douglas, C.M.G. "the special Commissioner over iNOtv tiuni'-'t. : 1 Tenders lor the Auckland Muidcipal five per rent Toair of twoiitvthousaud pounds wore oppued to-dai The amount TqWjLwcj

was ono hundred and sixty thousand pounds. Tenderers at £lO4 Awill receive 30 per cent, lho . minimum was fixed at £lO2. J .U-ccive.l .T:tn IS. ! 1. ii) n.m. Siuxr.v, Jan 18. A m in wliil-t lit mipting to_ drivo in a bug/v thi'uiiu’i some bush at A 1 bury, in which a fp-c was raging, was overtaken by the flames and perishe 1. Through the death of MrGibbes, member for Newton, -another. Protectionist tight is imminent. Work at the Newcastle Coal alines is slack and wages are depressed owing to the completion of the Southern mines. Melbourne, Jan. 18. Swan, the pedestrian, attempted to commit suicide to-day by taking poison. He is now in the hospital. The cause of the rash act is attributed co the deatli of his sweetheart having affected his mind.