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New Zealand Mail, Issue 1260, 23 April 1896, Page 33

Many years ago (relates the Wanganui Herald) Mr Michael Kelly, now of Jlawera, lent a friend (.Mr McHugh) at Homo .£3OO. Tho borrower died and left his brother as trustee, but no money was paid ; later on tho brother died and another brother was left in charge of affairs, bat years rolled on and Air Kelly heard nothing. and emieludcd Unit tho money was gone. To his ;-uij>ii, however, he received a letter from Ins own brother by Ilie last mail, enclosing a letter from tho stillliving Air McHugh, now in Providence, United States, stating that lie had for a long time, past been endeavouring to find tho address of Air .Michael Kelly, for there was a stun of. £SOO owing to him. For about nine years the money has been lying in tho hank waiting for the owner to turn up.

The truth about the British Navy, says tho Loudon Chronicle, is that wo want more men, and we do not want more ships until the men and officers for them are partly trained. Wo shall never got a proper proportion between ships and men until wo have a public inquiry into the manning of the Navy, and we shall never got a thoroughly trustworthy system of national defence until wo have the relations between tho Army and the Navy da* fined for the information of Parliament. Thirty • three men, llio majority being clerks, operatives and labourers, were lined by the Manchester City Justices the other flay for co-l;-lighting. A number of ]»>lico officers rushed into a hotel in tho district, and in a largo room upstairs found all tho defendants assembled. A carpet had been laid on tho floor, and four pair of birds were being got ready t > fight. Tho persons in tho room were placed under formal arrest, and the cocks, along with spurs, scissors, scales and other things us.M i.a connection with contests of this kind, were seized. The balance-sheet of the Christ, ffiurch Working Aim’s Ciab for the h tb y-ar .-bowed the receipts to have been -£! Kiff. Up 1 Get, including’ a balance at the beginning ql tho half-yea’’ of .£"D Pis 0 i. ami the ox.mmiburc illliff! 5s “ 1. >, credit balance. of .£lßs 7s id. 4 ii.: end fare im-hm-M TUT! paid oil l!i-* mortgage. Tulin books and periodicals itiiti ill OO'HiI i Di.-, l o>»jCCfcii* Tlu; JiHfjoi.s weru X i > <\s mid liiu luiLiiicicß xm\. A Chinaman, suspected of being a leper, has been reported to the Queensland police.