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— ..« — . Kaierau Football Club'a annual meeting this evening. Miss Hatherly'a concert at Oddfellows' Hall to-night. The weather is clearing in Brisbane and all danger of floods past. From London the death is announced of Mr Cunningham Smith, of New Zealand. Russia is employing a Frenoh steamer for the conveyance of troops to the Far East. There are nine typhoid fever patients in the Napier hospital, five miJes and four female*. 3 The Pemberton settlers are considering the advisability of establishing a butter or cheese factory at Rangiwahia. In the oase of the Southland Frozen Meat Company v. Nelson Bro»., Limited, the appeal to the Privy Counoil was dismissed with costs. George Croft Huddlestone,latem»gazine keeper at Auckland, has been admitted to probation on the charge of embezzlement. He pleaded guilty. Return draughts matoh, Europeans v. Maoris, to-nighS ' at Mrs Bfttt's (late Woatherall's) dining room.Riagway street. Players will please note place. The Patea Press reports that owing to the partial drying up of the Domain Lake hundreds of perch have perished, or been, raked out of the shallow water by poachers. On Wednesday a sad fatality ocourred at Kitnihia, near Auckland. A house was destroyed by fire, and an elderly, lady named Mrs Martin, aged 64, who was in the building at the time, was burned to death.
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Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXII, Issue 9385, 11 March 1898, Page 2
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