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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1704, 10 May 1886, Page 4

■L A boy named Sanisbury has been ar■l Vested at Blenheim on a charge of run-r niug away from his master, Mr Hannah, of Wellington, being an ofunder the Master and Apprentice HF Act, 1%5. Sanishury was brought up X -before the Blenheim Magistrate who re- ■? manded him to Wellington. ■' It is stated that a man has been earn- ■ ing as much as £6 a week by the sale of ■ frnstfish pinked up on the beach at New ■ Brighton, Canterbury. I Mr Percy Ward, the cadet m the H public office of the Magistrate's Court, is H^ under marching orders, haying received H notice that he will be transferred to Kj Wanganui on the 14th instant. He will Hlbe succeeded by Mr Claude Jordan, at •"present m the Justice Department, 60- - Buildings. — Wellington tiaper. One _pi-ihe simplest telephones m is m operation m an American It is an old telegraph wire, each Hlfend fastened to a thin sheet of wood, Hand its total distance is about a quarter Vof a mile, extending from the hotel office H^to the livery stable. Yet, rude as it is, Hit serves its purposes admirably, carrying H; the voice over the wire with clearness, H though one has to use some considerable ■ lung power. H' Mr O'Connor, Under-S«cretary for Hpablic Works, was m Wnnganui on ■ Thursday, and left for Wftllington next Mr O'Connor did the journey from Hthe Wnikfito on horseback, coining down Field's track, which he declares be, m its present state, the worst he ever travelled on. It is not often thnt one is'in n position Hbo read his own obituary notice, but an opportunity his bpen afforded Captain DondaH, the wril-kriown. drill-instructor.' In the Dun-, Hi n Star of Monday lnM npp«>ared an ; from the World giving a dr>account of the jrnllant cnplnin's and of his " vpccnt death under pninful circnmstancpH." The Star that Cnptain DnnriaH is worth any of riend men yet, hr having been nml olnn lent nhlp iirnt the Onmaru ennatnpment so »« Mondny Vn«». He is a brother » ew f>n ' M^lvillf, who hH« just to the title tlirougb the death uncle,