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Manawatu Standard, Volume V, Issue 1, 29 November 1883, Page 2

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— " r :■_■ ;y (UNITED PBESg^-SSd^A^ldV.) ■-.. . Auckla^.' 27* V I At the recent lierthififk of the s.s. | Zeahmdia, mail .steamer, at'the wharf, an altercation took place between Captain Webber and the Harbormaster, Captain Burgess. Ihe Harbor Board have instructed the latter officially to-takejproceediiigs against Captain Webber under the harbor regulations. Tho Auckland Sunday School Union Industrial Exhibition was opener) .to-day by the president of the Union Mr, J. C: ftirbh, with an inaugural address. fAt the- close of the Wesleyan district meeting a resolution was moved affirming the desirability of leaving out any limit of* ministerial term of resijdence m „a circuit m the proposed mode 1 ! deed, which re.solut on was carried. A further ntotion was carried to the effect the Conference be recommeudea' to j "make the limit <f residence three" years as at present. The result of this would be that the power of determining the length of the minister's stay m a circuit, would be transferred 1 from the Supreme Court of New Zealand to the Methodist Conference. ■"-'*''"'- "■'••'- Nov.' 2^. ■ Mr Carew, at the City Court this ' morning, declined to send cases of ille--gitimacy to the Industrial School. If /he granted all such applications that came before him, the place would not be?, ajthird^large enough. .„• „.,-•« _*_ Tenders i Tare now invited by the Public Vyprks Department for a section ofthe Ca'tlin's River line, over which there has been much growling at the d?lay. This jjection will complete the line to the South 'Mblyheux and allow -It to be ppened thither. . The work is' .-to be finished before this -time next year. ' v. . ; <; ,7 7 -A public meeting is to be held re discharge of the unemployed on the "OtagOiCeutfCßl Railway works ;now, m ..course of constructiob.; „. ; -'•'"' „ - By thep^tgoing mail applications iin-i der tho nominated system of immigration were forwarded for 72 equal' to .61; -statute .adults. Tho nationalities 6; Irish,' 29 • Scoic^, 37, .-.,,.01' the number, 14 aije single inen ! and 17 single women. Mv T. Fergus, M.H.R., leaves for -Hqbarbby the next steamer to supervise the ; contract of the railway line from the River Merseyr to Delorain, a .distance of thirty-seyen^and a half miles. .-Messrs Fergus and iHender^on were tbe successful tenderers for'tljis jwopk,- and the amount of, their contract :h . upwards of itlOO.OOO,.; Over ,400 men will be employed on .the \yorks next month. ; A number of gentlemen waited upon iiMir. Blair, of the Publiopar.tment> c !this morning,; to ascertain -.^whether the rumor thajt.the.'' i^nenir ployed" who were engaged on the| Hiindon; section section of tlie OtagO Central Railway have been discharged was correct. Mr Blair informed thorn that, according to instructions received from the Government, 100 men had been dismissed, and thejrest would have ..to leave, as; time went on. During the »„ requisition was pi-e---senfed to "the __a~yor, asking that" a public niee%i_g to consider the matter, and his Worship has accordingly called one for Tkursdaj' evening next, at t^e Queen's Theatre. Neb&oJt; fvoreaiber 27. A meeting of^shareholders iv the Champion Gopjjjer Company was held today, when rt^|^> vpnanimously resolved to wrhd^lfi^resent company, and form a tew one^Twith a capital of £60,000. o%ihis|amouut the shareholders m the-^d^ company will subscribe for JE2Q,pop^as against the pur-, chase of the property* i FOr that sum over 30,000 shares -have been applied • A**- &.>■■ ..i.'-T . ,-.- Li ;