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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1703, 8 May 1886, Page 2

The Mararoa is now due at Auckland; she is not lik<-ly to be much m advance of her due date, judging her by previous performances. The Sunday rest law keeps all the newspaper offics m Vienna closed on the Sabbath, and prevents the issue of Monday morning journals. : , ■' The District Engineer has reported to the Justice Department that he thinks if wiros are hung across the' coiling* of the Wellington Resident Magistrate's Court the difficulty now experienced m hearing will be overcome Instructions have been given to have this experiment tried at one. Thin experiment was tried m Wanganui, but with indifferent success. A few days urior to his ill-fated : voyage m the Taiaroa. a Sydney paper states, the late Mr Vallance cabled to one of the leading bookmakers to back Nelson for the Sydney Cup to win him £4000 at the current odds, and stated that he intended being present to j witnegßAheLA^vO.vraQeß^ :.J \x ; : ,»^