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Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 301, 22 November 1883, Page 3

iiiTihe Wairar^a, Star --says' :—" The Presbyterian Assembly of .Victoria by a large^ majority haye [ excommupicateiiUie :r^vrdKneT Strong I ,^ "who Being inockknee'd m the:f».it;h,Trellnquißh«d his church 4b a^ceptical judge." ' „, j LThe> ibnarife; i of- • r*ffl»n^ ja^ watch in^ restaurant has been dismissed by three Justices m« the • "Wellingtou Kesident JMlapislralela^Court. -J[t wa> a quaation of construing the Gaming and Lottfcefies Aot of 1881,'ian;^. rthe /flpn, P. A.Buckley, who Heiended tne 6aa'e} ■ argued that this Act was not intended to prohibit a quiet lityle raffle among a few working men m an e^lipg-liouae. jh^-Act was' intended to prohibit public raffles, and not to interfere with private amusements. The Magiat rates,, after hearing evidence, dismissed, the case. . Detective tienjaminvodesires the Wan« .ganuiJ^erald-to state that f . he has picked 'up ac^eauepn t^e Bank of Australasia-^ at i'eildiug, ," t tor lie' sum of £14 fIL itf u favor ! dT James Suittllaiap; 'and drawn by jofih^hiuc^r';'^ 1^ ; „ j,,.. lO ' A k]iltefan' > pajjWj&eyp't.6^- : to Nihiliyni* says country •ni6tners fi 'have adopted the i£custob»iof carryine; i infant» to the bedside of persons afflotod .with' diptheria J and wrapping them up fa blankets, eo'that they may jbjecome infected and die. ■ n ■ j:Tq*n^orrow; \a th.c $.\j of Dr.^Cjarl's usually weekly "visit to Palmerston, his, -^dnsoltin'jt riJomß beitfg^at Kemington'a* --HiU. - !- - | ' ' ' _,A pibn^uit'aWon *$dm'' : tia Don is jelse^--n where' brdukht'udder public notice. Mr L-jwes,. of the tibtigb'' Hotel, is t'apidly recovering^ fro^ni Hhe' Effect's of his' late aome'woat i sefrferd acdident, wh'ica fortunatilyj was motiatteniled .wi^h, permanently serious*