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Western Star, Issue 944, 2 May 1885, Page 2

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[Press Associatjon.l Auckland, Friday. On Monday five guns will be mounted for the defence of Auckland, and the whole early in the week. The medical report to the City Council shows that the enforcement of the Coutageous Diseases Act had reduced prostitution 50 per cent., and decreased the number of prostitutes by 03. Wellington, Friday. An action Wellington Meat Preserving Co. v. Shaw Savill and Co., a claim for £I7OO, will be heard at next sittings of the Supreme Court. The plaintiffs, shipped by the Coptic on iast voyage 5500 carcases upon which a yalue of fivepouce per lb was set, I but when the consignment reached I Home tbe weati only realised 3d per -I

lb owing it is alleged to injury through defectne freezing machinery. The evidence of witnesses on board the Coptic has been taken before the Registrar. The Colonial Treasurer has lemived a cable from the Agent - General announcing that the amouni of the loan converted to date was £3,612,100. CnßisicHUßcHj-.l'i iday. John Green, carpenter of the barque Colleen, was committed for trial to-day on a charge of stabbing au apprentice named Leslie. Dunedin, Friday. Four hundred feet of space has beeu applied for in the Home Induatry branch of the Industrial Exhibition. The number of exhibitors is forty. There are ten applicants in the art branch. The New Zealand Agricultural Co.’s homesteads, &c., at Waimea, did not elicit a bid at auction to-day. The warehousemen are forming an artillery company. There are already forty names enrolled.