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Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 110, 4 April 1884, Page 3

LATEST TELEGRAMS.

- ■ . '* ■ ■ •* : ; •■ ■■ ! (UNTEEP PBESB ASSOCIATION.) i . : „. Ohbisighttrch, April- &■•• v Guy Cdverdale, employed to tally: .oul} cal^o at:Xyttelton,. was convicted; of smugglmg 541 b of tiea. The Collector, .of Customs sued for treble; the vialue.! 3Jhe court fined Coverdale £18, costs of jDourt, and counsel's fee ; total-, £20 9s. ,- Njlpibb, April 2. . The result of the examination of the [ sheep dipped m Hay ward's tiial was jthat on the, sheep didped with the ] glycerigo dip, us©icold > &>fe.w lice were found, but that a mixture of glycerine and Lincoln dips; of Lincoln used alone, was sucoesafuU ■•-•-:: >.i-.-h.---...WKJitiNOTpir, April 3. „ ; Tt is understood here that Mr Justice Johnston has resigned his seat on the .Supreme Court Bench m . consequence of jillrhealth, and that the Hon. E^ >j; C,onolly,,AtlorneyrGeneral, will Biioceed to the vacant Judgeship. t > The customs revenue for "Wcllinfijton fov the month is £20,585. - For the quarter it was £64,418, as compared vjth „£59,417^ for the corresponding qnarltej? last year. w o ■■, -■■ .'i Auckland, April 3i ' jjMrsiGranintyi who recently fell from window of a lodging 1 house while m liquor, died at the Hospital of her injuries. At the inquest on the infant of Mrs Norati r ©?Brien; the evidence showed that the child : was overlaid or suffocated through the 'blankcte being over its fiicc ?/~:. ' 3 ICel^ok, April 3. Hop picking is jxpyr^concUtdt'd. Them wig* rery large crop" at TattneVs. 'I he yield from cuttings planted less than six months ago, w^as seven hundred weightto \h4 acret " This is believed to be unprecedented. ■ • ' - i