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Otago Daily Times, Issue 10598, 19 February 1896, Page 4

OMiMIUM GATHERUM. NEWS AND GOSSIP. Duuedin Cap day. The Duaedin regatta takes place to-day. Mr Wilford, who nisasured his strength .with Dr Newman at tho ]«j-1 election, will be a candidate for the Otni:i seat;. Mr D. Buick, brother of Mr Buick, SI.II R , will contest the Pnluisrstun stab n«t flection. All that remains c.F the steamer Wfiifcapu, which took 6re ou the Patent Slip (Wellington) lias been abandoned by Mr J. IS. Cross to the underwriters. L»»t week there were 11 bankruptcies in the coiouy—two farmer?, :t tailor, a contractor, a labourer, a builder, a. blsclamilh, a hotelkeeper, a boarding' housekeeper, a cab proprietor, and a grocer. The Mariposa, with English mails of January 25, left San Franoisflo en February 7, a day late. The Sionowai. with colonial mails to Jauunry £5, arrived at San Francisco on February 16. three days late. Archibald Dalgliesh rode from Oamara to Dunedin on Monday, and lowered the cycling record, which previously stood at 6h limn, to "5h Mroin. . , . , Miss Scott, Goverument inspector under the Labour department, has returned from her iu(.ptotion of the Invercargill factories. lie W. G. Filleul, who for upwards of*a (liia'-ter of a century has occupied the position i t*f clerk of the Majjistrste's Court, clerk of the I District Court, regiotrar of (he Bankruptcy : Court, registrar of birthp, marriages, and deaths, and returning officer r.t Oaaiaru, haa ■ resigned from the ferrice. The name of his successor hits not yet traaapired.

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