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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 150, 2 June 1883, Page 2

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(UNITED PfiESS ABSOOTATION.) Auckland, June 1. •The Auckland Fibre Company's annual report shows a total expenditure of £20.689 9s Bd, and a credit balance of 45400. The troll-known trainer, Walsh, while :exercisini? a colt Kyi Mnsketeei! dn the road at Remuera, met with a nasty accident; The animal became fractious, and by rearing managed to loosen the saddle,. and was then thrown joff, landing on aferice,arid having his sleft eye gouged out. Assistance being procured, the inin'rod man was removed to the Hospital, bat on the way the way the eye went back into the socket, by involuntary muscular action. The medical gentleman who saw Walsh at the Hospital stated that his sight is mno danger, and the injured man is rapidly recovering. Chribtchurch, June 1. The Auckland Fibre Company's annual report shows a total expenditure of £20,689 ds Bd, and a credit balance of £400. Four firemen on the British Queen, for refusing ta work, were imprisoned pWifch hard labor, two for four and two for. two months. It was ..stated m Court that the expense of delaying the steamei would be £100 a day. K.'is ''stated^ that, thirty men have engaged as navvies to go to Saeensland, at wages of 9s a day for two years, and passage found. 'An inquiry is going on before the Visiting Justices into the management of the Lytteiton Gaol. The proceedings are private. Nklsok, May fl^n; The death is announced of Mr Matthew Campbell, at the age of 68. He arrived m Nelson m 1842, and from then till now has taken great interest m education and Sunday school work. H> was the metns of establishing the Nelson School Society. ; WxLLiSQToit, June V It has been decided by the Wellington subscribers to the Telephone Exchange l to hold a meeting at the Chamber of Commerce^on Monday next, for the purpose of appointing a deputation to wait on the Government with a view to have a reduction made : m the subscription to telephones. • The Government received a telegram from Major Atkinson, fcboi Stratfotd^ that a man named Toeker had reported to him that Tito Kowam had broken some of of his ribs ; that he (Tocker) had done what he could by bandaging bat that surgical aid was required? It has been arranged that this shall be provided, NiEiEß,June I. The Government having expressed a wish to meet the Harbor- Board, to inspect the plans of the harho/, a meeting was arranged for to-day; and His Excellency's departure postponed till 3 p.m. Dmrkmir, June 1. Vickers, the -escapee from gaol, was captured this afternoon at 3 o'clock by Constable Meldrum, who had been m the saddle since 6 a.m. Vickers was hididg m the fern at Mullocky Gully; nearly twenty miles from.Dnnedm, ■The constable covered him with a rei volver, and he offered no resistance, At the City Court to-day, Vickers was committed for trial for escaping fr6m gaoli. 5 '■'.'■ : ■■■■'- • - A six-roomed house at Kaikoura was burned down- last night. ;Tae ; place was valued at £300, and has' been unoccupied over a month. Insured for £200 m Standard, and i £160 m the Scottish-Imperial. Suspicious stahcesi'Ltttbltonj June 1. The steamer British Queen, with a cargo of frozen meat, wheat, and wool, sailed for London this morning. The chief items of her cargo are as follows : — 5769 carcases mutton, 50 quarters beef, 9823 sacks of wheat, 611 casks tallow, 944 sacks beans, 1623 bales wool, 1303 cases meats, 1486 sacks grass seed, 1898 sacks oats.