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[P£B UNITED PBE?3 ASSOCIATION.! Wellington, This Day. Private advices received from London state that Captain Benson, well-known in connection with the old Panama steam services, died on May 22nd, after a short illness. Sir F. D. Bell has cabled to the Government agreeing to hold the A pentGeneralship for a further period of two years. Mr J. Dransfield contests the next mayoralty. Auckland This Day. Thomas Nelson was yesterd iy arrested as beini; of unsound mind mind and sent to the asylum, lie was formerly an inmate of the ChristcLurch asylum. At the inquest on the body of James Thomas, engine driver of the ship Rangitikei a verdict of accidental drowning was returned, with a rider that the gang* ways should have stanchions on both sides. Dr Wilkins deposed that deceased died of apoplexy through drunkenness and not by drowning. Gisbobnb. This Day. The official declaration of the poll was made today, thenumbers being unaltered. M essrs Kees and Locke publicly shook hands.
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Feilding Star, Volume VI, Issue 22, 31 July 1884, Page 2
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