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New Zealand Mail, Issue 562, 11 November 1882, Page 12

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• 3~ (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) I ? "■ .. ///• DdN'WN, November *. j It is understood that’ aibout 40,000 shares. • have been applied for over; the' nuipber *to be - allotted in tbe Equitable Tazuranbe Association.'" ' ■ v ./ ; •’ I/* ” M / ■ From Tapanui -the news comes that the settlers who bought bigh-prioed deferred-pay- a ment lands, shortly before the Govern- > meat allowed a large nnmter of defaulting' •..? license holders; to forfeit their allotments, intend petitioning the Government to lighten the heavy, payments they have to unite, on the ground that it ia unfair that. those who . kept up their payments should have to pay full rate*, whilst those who did not pay got off at fariess rates. ,/,.:'/ / ■' •/ . t / A company is in course of formation in Dnoediu to procure diamond drills for pros-speeting-purposes, iu order’to hire them out to mining.parties. - ; l • f i] A teamster, named Findlay Lamont wun killed yesterday at Bendigo Goldfields, by the : capsicing of bis dray. ' . j ? Tivabu, November 8. Tbe Hon. Mr Dick, Colonial Secretary, arrived from the South tide evening. He ■ leaves for Christchurch to-morrow afternoon. The prospectus is issued of the T<-muka Linseed Company, with a capital of £IOOO. The weather continues very stormy and unsettled, and heavy rain is falling at intervals. c /. Auckland,'November 8. f During the passage of the Loch Urr from London, an apprentice named James Francis Pearce fell from the. main yard, .-and wa« 'drowued, notwithstanding great efforts made . td save him. ..>M A number of King natives have been aeut for by Te Wheoro to take part in. the 1 canoe race at the North Shore Regatta to-morrow. Richard Healey and Thomas Ste Wart, the former a seaman and the latter a bushman, have been arrested for larceny of £2OO worth lot jewellery, the property of Mr Scott, a commercial traveller, on the steamer Wellington, on the passage from Tauranga. They i stand . remanded for eight days. > : The Premier has promised the residents of Avondale (late Whau) . that Mr C°*» the Government Geologist, shall, at an early date, examine the coal deposits lately found there.' * 1 Mr A. B. Pearson, drowned at Raglan, was 'brother-in-law to Mr • Bretagh, manager of Studholme’s station, at Raglan. The friends of the deceased young mau reside in Canterbury. ; , , NAPIER, November 8. i At a meeting of the temporary, committee d formed to endeavor to arrange for a fire :j brigade competition at the meeting of the 0010- - nial delegates, it was unanimously resolved, « That owing to the small attendance, and the : lack of interest thereby shown, the committee be dissolved." > Great complaints are made as to scarcity of labor in the country districts. It is difficult even to find shearers, and at harvest tbe farmers fear they will not be able to get in their crops. Shearing bas been much delayed r , by showery weather. The clip is generally excellent. Haweba, November 8. Mr T. M. Foy, who has been employed by tbe Public Works Department to aot as engineer to the Middle Island Railway Commission, left Hawera this morniDg for Wellington. JV . , . --Taupo, November 8. The case of malicious injury to.-a horse is now in the hands of the police, who, on searching yesterday, found distinct traces of an attempt having been made to run the horse into a large boiling spring, known as the Witches* - Cauldron. This having failed, tbe culprit appears to have first fearfully maltreated the horse, aud then attempted to sever the backbone with a tomahawk. Opunake, November 8. Mr John Elliott, chairwau of the Taranaki County Council, addressed a meeting here last night, and explained tbe provisions of the Roads and Bridges Construction Act, passed last session. The County Council propose

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