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Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 79, 9 March 1883, Page 2

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(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedin, March 8. The liev. A. C. Gillies, who settled here some menths ago, has never yet attended a meeting of the local presbytery. To-day at its meeting, the clerk was instructed to make enquiries regarding his absence. Chbistchurch, March 8. At the adjoarned annual meeting of the Temperance Hotel (Limited), held ■■ last ni lit, the balance-sheet was ad-* opted after some discussion. It showed a loss on the working of last year of £391, and an excess of £1567 "liabilities over assets. A motion recommending tbe directors to consider the advisability of calling tenders to lease the hotel was lost by a considerable majority, who looked hopefully to the tuture for success. Timaru, March 8. The Government have grantad to the Mount Cook Road Board £400 towards opening up the Alpine country at the toot of and aronnd Mount Cook by roads, on the condition that the Board undertake the construction of the work, which they have agreed to do. ihe Geraldine County Council are takinsr steps to ir igate the South Canterbury plains, and a BUI will be introduced into the coming Parliament to assist them m. doing so. Auckland, March 8. The relations, between Dr McKeilar and the nurses and patients at the hospital are of a most unsatisfactory character. Serious complaints are made a»ainßt the doctor by several female nurses, and also by the Tiead nurses and the matron, all of whom are understood to be about to resign. Theie are also complaints about the treatment of patients. The committee intend to hold an investigation. . It is rumoured that Sir Hercules Robinson intends visiting England during the spring Hir Dillon Bell's health isunsatisfac« tory. His physicians recommend a warmer climat". • Sir W. Fox has sent to the Secretary of State for the Colonies a letter re Native matters, for the purpose of clear* ing away misconceptions re the importance of the recent Maori mission. The letter was read before the Colonial Institute; and m the course of a discussion afterwards, Sir- Chas. Clifford stigmatised the treaty of Waitangi as " a mockery, delusion, and sham." ,The '. Duke of Manchester renurked that "the Maoris seemed thoroughly friendly now, but during his short to New Zealand, he saw and heard sufficent to convince him there was no Englishman m the colony bub would regret their extinction." An Auckland and "Hawke's Bay Loan Company, with a capital of £100,000 is now being formed m Lonn don. The Bishop of Nelson returns to the colony this month. The Auckland Sunday School Union have decided on holding another children' industrial exhibition.* New Plymouth, March. 8. A serious accident occurred at the Harbor Works. The foreman-fitter got jammed between a locomotive and a truck, ani is badly hurt m the side.