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[By Telegraph.] (Per Press Association.) Auckland, This day. Sailed last night—May Howard for Norfolk Island. Obituary—Abraham Boardman, exMayor, aged 73. John Douglas has been adjudged a bankrupt on the petition of J. P. DuMouhn. The Northern Steamship Company shows a net profit on the past year of £3606. It pays a dividend of seven per cent, and carries forward £1062. The decision of the Nautical Court enquiry into the accident to the boiler of the Harbor Board's Dredge 121, was that the chief engineer, William Stewart, was guilty of wrongful default in net using the salinometer daily to detect the density of salt in the boilett. The Court suspended Stewart's certificate for three months, and ordered him to pay the costs of the inquiry. ..w " Wellington, This day. Council is preparing a byeit an offence for anyone to <i sit or stand in the passages of the Opera House during a performance. This is in consequence of the overcrowding of the building a few weeks ftcrrtFeilding, This day. The farmers at Awahuri last night formed a Dairy Factory Company. All the shares were taken up.
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Hastings Standard, Issue 328, 21 May 1897, Page 3
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