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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 216, 16 August 1883, Page 2

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INTERPROVINCIAL. I o (UNITED PBJSSS ASSOCIATION.) 1 INVEBOARGILL, August 14. The parsonage of All Saints' Church I at Gladstone was destroyed by fire at 4 I o'clock this morning. i>'othin» was 1 saved bat tUe piano and a little olothiog. I Dunbdin, August 14. The Union Shipping Company, it is I rumored, have sold the steamer Waitaki to the WhaDgarei Coal Company , I Auckland. Tho Otago footballers are not show* ing much interest" m the Auckland match. To- night at the practise match only three players oat of 23 selected for practice rolled up. • A boy named Johnston had a: narrow 1 .escape ieom drowning at Port Chalmer* jtoiday. Tie fell off the rail wa^, but happily his cries were heard by James Crisp, railway workman, who ijumped overboard and brought him' safely I ashore.' . '. i • The Alford Forest diamonds, prought down by the special reporter of the Daily Times, have been submitted to! Mr S. ooldstein, an expert, who declares them undoubtedly genuine. They are value" 1 less, however, for ornamental purposes, but for cutting other diamonds, diamond drills, &C, they have s small commercial value of- perhaps 5s or 10s per carat. Ohristchukoh, August 14. The Chamber of Commerce ] has re« I ceivei the following cable frsm Cunningham: — "Stones handed to Cun« ningham by Kelsey, experts pronounced valueless ; not genuine." < Timabu, August 14. At the Kesident Magistrate's Courl to-day, Reuben Smith of thet fealvatior Army, was fined £>\ and costs ', for obstructing the street with his army, , on Sunday last, and refusing to move on when requested by the nolinft.