Tho seamen have had a conference with the ship-owners at Wellington. The men are prepared to accept the award of tbo Court, but the employers desire a modification of some of the clauses, and no settlement has been yet arrived at. The Wellington Law Society is taking action against a country solicitor who is to be called on to answer an accusation of misappropriating tho funds of a client. The Palmerston North Gas Company made a profit for the year of £l3Bl and pays a dividend of 6 per cent, absorbing £I2GO, Tbore were 16 bankrupt :ies last week in the colony—a grocer, a fai mer, a hotelkeeper, three laborers, a cook, a rainter, a c'.erk, a bootmaker, a draper, a baker, a storekeeper, a tailor a dentist, and one no oooupatioDj
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Western Star, Issue 1294, 6 March 1897, Page 3
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132Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 Western Star, Issue 1294, 6 March 1897, Page 3
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