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[from our own correspondent.] NAPIER. This Day. The proprietora of the Hawke's Bay Herald announce the issue of a weekly paper, named the Cornier, next Friday. WELLINGTON. This Day. The steamer Agnes left to-day for the purpose of repairing the Cook Strait Cable. —^Walsh, Secretary of the Hibernian Sooietypmu^aentenced yesterday at the Supreme Court fa* a?-r rmvnUm' fprpiMnnnment for embezzling the funds of the Society, but the sentence will not be carried out until a legal point is decided by the Court of Appeal. The Mayor proposes to reduce Municipal salaries by £1000 a year. Hans Tapsell is here trying to upset Tomoana's election on the ground of bribery. McCaughan's adhesion to the Opposition is definitely settled by his pairing against the Government on Macandrew's no confidence motion.. AUCKLAND. This Day. The grant of £25,000 allotted to Auckland for school buildings for the year ending next June, is already absorbed. £37,700 more is required, as per list forwarded to the Government for school buildings and teachers' residences. An accident occurred at the practice of the Naval Brigade yesterday. In firing a gun some loose gunpowder ignited, exploding some charges in a boat. Three seaman were scorched and injured, but not dangerously. CHRISTCHURCH. This Day. The Board of Education decided that masters are not entitled to payment for teaching pupil teachers whose term of service has expired. At a meeting of the Philosophical Society on Thursday, the Rev. Mr. Stank read a paper, in which he stated that contact with the white man was rapidly destroying all that was good, generous, and to be admired in the once noble Maori race. ' GRE YMOTJTH. This Day. The men working on the B runner tonAmberley Railway line held an indignation meeting on Thursday, protesting against the reduction of wages from ten to nine shillings per day. The coal miners joined in the protest, as it would affect them. The meeting declared there were already plenty of idle men in the district, and cautioned anyone against coming.
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Poverty Bay Herald, 18 October 1879, Page 2
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