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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 226, 27 August 1883, Page 2

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INTERPROVINCIAL. a> [PEfi UNITED PURSS ASSOCIATION]. Wellington, August 25. The Albion Company, Terawhiti, commenced crushing today. Auckland, August 24. Miss Amy Swanborough, tobacconist, was fine I £10 and costs for sly grog selling. The principal witness was a Figian planter named Milhr. The defendant admitted that her real name was Mrs Healy, of Auckland, her husband being m Canterbury. There was srlow on the ranges of Pukekohe and Drury for the first time m the memory of the oldest inhabitants. Cattle have died from exposure. Uhristchuroh, August 24. The Standard Insurance Company to-day paid the amount ot the verdict gained by Stranaghan. At a meeting of the unemployed today nearly a hundred carpenters are said to have been present. Another meeting is to be held to-morrow. The convent is closed , and the nuns at Sumner removed m consequence of diptheria. Dcjnedin, August 24. v Some time a#o Mr Alfred Austin, of Dunedin, announced that he would give £100 to any man m Australia who would beat young Scott, m a walking match, of 24 hours or 48 hours. AMr Seymour, of Melbourne, is now on his way over, to accept the challenge on behalf cf the well-known pedestrian Edwards. At a meeting of the unemployed m the Queen's Theatre to-day 200 men were present. The speakers declared that the wages offered on the Ot»go Central line, of 21s for single and 28s tor married men, were inadequate. Eveutually it was decided to telegraph to the Dunedin and suburban members of the House. August 25. The Caversham 6 per cent. Municipal loan of £20,000 has been floated m London at par. Haweba, August 25. On Thursday a Maori, at a village near here, hanged himself throughjealousy. Yesterday the other natives ] rolled him up m blankets and buried him. The Mayor has proclaimed a holiday on Tuesday next for the opening. 'of the railway. Invitations have been received from ths Mayor, and Councillors to lunch ad Patea at noon. '"> ; -- !