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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 184, 11 July 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

INTERPROVINCIAL,

■ tCTNIIBD rBBSS ASSOCIATION. Ohristchubch, July 9, At the annual meeting of the Friends of Labor 'Load Society, the report showed that daring the seven years of existence, the tota): amount of loans to members was £28.416. A dividend of 6 per c >nt. for the half-year was declared. I . . ; A meeting to consider the union^ofthe different Methodist Churches ia New Zealand is to be neld this week m Ohristchurch. Representatives of tho various branches of Methodism m the colony are expected to be present, Dunedin, July 9 The funeral of the Rev. Dr. Stuart's son was attended to-day by over 1000 people. A. meeting of merchants and import* ers m regard to the recent goods.,shed fira was adjourned m consequence of the funeral, and also the meeting of the Licensed Victuallers. Auckland, July 9, The damage by.floods at Coromandel is considerably over £10,000. At the Supreme Court civil sessions the case ot John Gibbons v. the Kaipara Steamship Company comes off" The claim is for £2000, being damages" for the loss of a foot, torn off at the ankle by being caught m a bight of the steamer's hawser, at Riverhead Wnayf. : - ■■-■■-'■ ■■:.. A young man named Harris, employedby i; Mr f r Fowler, butcher, wag killed m Grey-street ... to-day. While trying to stop a baker's runaway, he was knocked down, and the oarfc went over him, T ¥ *