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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 101, 1 April 1885, Page 3

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(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, March 31. ! The barque Matthiew, wrecked at j Kaipara Roads, is fast breaking up. The ! whole of the deck cargo is strewn along the beach for the some distance. There is a goodly number of additional applications for space by mtonding exhibitors at the New Zealand Industrial Exhibition. The imminence of war has caused the local Insuranoe Companies to consider the advisability of charging war risks. Mr Bryce is now m Auckland to give evidence before the commission which is appointed to take evidence m the libel case Bryco v. liusden. Mr F. D. Fenton and the Hon. Mr Tole have been appointed commissioners to not on behalf of Mr liusden, and Mr Bryce has appointed Mr James Russell and Mr A. E, Whitoker.

Wellington, Mar-jh 31. ' Donald Chisholm, grocer, was to-day : fined 40s for a broach ot" tho Sales of Poison Act, by selling "Roughs on Rats" without restriction. The Island Bay Park . Company has . I beosi voluntarily wound up, and another , company formed, to be called the Island Bay Park luicing and Coursing Company, Limited, with a capital of i' 20,000 7 "n £1 shares. This Day. During the passage of the ship Halicone from London, one of tho crew named W. Sims, while bending the foresail fell overboard and owing to tho heavy weather the vessel wan not able to pick him up.