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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 5, 4 June 1885, Page 3

The Manawatu County Council met today. Parliament will open this day week. Additional Melbourne entrios for the Cup : — Lantern, The Plunger, The Andes and Liverpool ; total entries, 165. As showing the vidue of life insurance the Auckland Star states a polioy for £500, taken out by Mr Dowden m the A.M . P. So'iety, amounted at his death, with profits, to £813 2s. As he hnd only paid premiums amounting to £282 19s 7d, there was a balance of £530 2s j sd, at no cost to him. Fires have been rather numerous on the West Coast during the past month, and Mr G. H. Scales, who went up on behalf of the Insurance Association to adjust thfi account 8. must havn hnd rather a busy time of it. The total losses during May were about £17,400, made up as followB :— P.itea, £1500; New Plymouth, £12.000; L*-p,erton, £250; Opnnake. £2500 ; Normanby, £100 ; Ota'ti, £1220. There wore also one or two Hinaller firos. It h not at al! improbable that Courtnny's building m New Ptyinoiith, \vhi:r« tho fire originated whirh cnus'd su<-h destruction, Proper's Hotel, Opunhki, and Smith's store, Otaki, will be rebuilt by the. Insurance Companies. — Wellington paper. Mr James Munro, of Melbourne, at pivßint m London, his had an inteiview with Earl D«rl»v. Flu nrg»-d tho necessity of strictly prohibiting the sale of nlcoholic liquors to tho Natives of New Guinea. Earl Durby promised to give earnest consideration to the matter.