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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 125, 1 May 1885, Page 3

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(UNHED PUCSS ASSi:t.'!'A.TlOX.> Auckland, April HO. The Government have onk'ivl 1500 tons of Hay of Islands coals for delivery hero, 1000 tons to bo stored imar tho Prnrose railway station, and 500 m Imlks.' The annual meeting of the Auckland Tobacco Company lapsed for want of » quorum. The report states that the prolitH on sales, though considerable, had boen more than eaten up by salaries, wages, and commissions. Retrenchment m i wages, etc., it was hoped, would mluci; the <!ol>it-balanco m future. At the half-yearly meeting of the Now Zealand Sugar Company, limited, tho credit balance of profit and loss was carried to the new account. The Hon. James Williamson was re-elected a director. This Day. A representative of the Sydney Seamen's Union was ou board the Zealandia as a passenger. The captain discovered he was tampering with the cr»\v and placed him m arrest and did not allow him to land -till immediately before the departure of the vessel which took place at 6.30 this morning. Hanlon who is a through passenger states that he intends to return to Australia m 18 months with four -American scullers, and will row a -fniir-oared race against the picked men of thp Colonies two double sculling races and ••■ir single sculling races. He was willing to row Hearn, but that man's backers would not raise £200 for the match. Hanlon intends to settle m Sydney. ■ ' ' New Plymouth, April 30. The Supreme Court criminal sessions w-re opened this morninp by Judge Gillies. There are only three cases. Kttru, larceny, aud Givey, forgery, pleaded guilty. The grand jury found no true bill against Boswell for perjury. CHiiIsTCHURCH, April 30. For selling flounders les? than nine inches m length, two fishermen were today finod £1 each. This case was the first brought under the new regulations ' published m the Gazette of Aoril 2nd. An eight-roomed house at Opawawaa destroyed by fire. The fire was caused by a defective chimney. At a - meeting hold at Merivale, a Runnrb of Chrifitchurch, to-night, it was decided to form a branch of the St. John's Ambulance Association. Severn 1 mudical men were present, and over 60 persons subscribed as members of tho branch. The object of the association is to vender assistance to sufferers from accidents or wounds m time of peace or war.