LOCAL AND GENERAL
The framework for the addition to the Commercial Hotel is up, auclthe work of erection ia-proceeding rapidly. A large looiil Mercantile Company on the joint atock principle ia m process of formation m Wanganui. At Kaiapoi, the other day, a Maori boy waa publicly flogged for obtaining goods by false pretences. The native constable inflicted 'thepunishtnen'fc A large number at dead sheep and cattle are now found, m paddocks lately flooded m South Canterbury, and amongst them are hundreds of hare?. The late hour of which the Standabd was published last week was m conse* i nuencsof an accident to the steam-engine, necessitating driving theprintins;»ranchii.e by hand-power. With our now very heavy publication, the progress was slow, causing considerable delay m the issue. We itay say that Messrs Pym and Pyvis neatly effected repitirs, (though the fracture wns m metal casting near the throttlesvalye) so that now it cannot be j detected and £he place is stronger than i eyet it was.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 134, 14 May 1883, Page 2
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165LOCAL AND GENERAL Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 134, 14 May 1883, Page 2
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