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♦ (PER UNITI3D PRKSS ASSOCIATION.) Chbistchubch, This Day. - Green's Bacon Factory destroyed by fire last night. Insurances about £17,000. E. G. Griffiths, well known in sporting circles, died this morning ; he was ill for some weeks, He leaves friends all over the colony. He wrote under the name of "Senex." " •Nelson, December 21. A settler at Awaroa, oh the north side of Blind Bay, forwarded to the Collector a scrap of paper found in a bottle on the beach, bearing in pencil the following words : — " Captain Harris, four men and i cook, of Sydney November 10th, 1889. ; Fishing boat Kate, sinking, God help us. It appears that in the Australian Register i is a lugger, 16 tons, named Kate. Auckland, December 22. A parcel of five tons of stone from the Try Fluke claim; at Kuaotuna, has yielded 103oz 16dwt of melted gold. • The discovery of a q van tit v of copra on the liorthem coast has been explained in a letter from Captain Robiuson, master, of the brigautine Buster, who states that whilst that ves-sel was at Whaugaroa recently some damaged copra wnß thrown overboard, and he has no- doubt this is what has now been found. An explanation is still wanting, however, as to the thou.- ands of onmges alau found on Doubtless Day, The Auckland Free School of Art. maintained for 11 years by Dr Campbell, has boon closod, as the pupils will be received in the school founded" by Dr Elaine The students have presented Dr Campbell with an illuminated address, arid have presented a handsome easel to their instructor, Mr W-atkins. Dr/NKDiN. December- 23 Defalcations, approaching four '"figures 1 have beeu discovered in Ashcroft's accounts. One gentleman last week cashed a voucher for £200, which the Government have repudiated. , Wellington, This Day. During the five years the .Official Assignee's office has been 0pen,. 369 cases -of bankruptcy have been recorded in Wellington * last year the number was 58, • the smallest in any year except 1884, when the number was 39.
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Feilding Star, Volume XI, Issue 79, 24 December 1889, Page 2
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