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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 32, 6 July 1885, Page 2

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("UNITED PRESB ASSOCIATION.) , Auckland, Sunday. Ninety-three boys and 111. girls entered for the next scholarship examination under the Education Board. There are 1000 signatures already obtained to petition to Parliament, asking an inquiry into Vaile's system of railway reform. All classes of the community have signsd it. Further petitions praying that it be a punishable offence to supply drink to children under 16 have been sent to Wellington by the Women's |Christian Temperance Mission. They hav« 1155 signature. A settler late of Whangapd.ua, C. J: Little, is at present staying in Auckland for the purpose of establishing his ideu^ tity in order to claim £500,000 in the old country. Port Chalmers, Sunday. ' A Masonic service was held to day at Holy Trinity Church. About 150 Masonic wore - present, including the District : Grand Master, Bro. T.H. Graham, -withthe officers of the District Grand Lodge. The service vras choral, and the Berinon was preached by the tli« Bishop- of Dunedin. ' Wellington; Monday. '- The Supreme Court was opened this morning before Judge Richmond. The' only cases of any magnitude are one against the person, and one for the jewel robbery. " ■ ' . > : " r Sailed-rlonic f or Lohdon on Saturday. >The race horse Minerva, was sold by auction . to-day . to Messrs Young and Saunder for £165. ~ ■'. '.< The body of an infant was found this, morning in a garden of a gentleman residing at Thorndon. Woodville, Monday. . . The. tender of J. Browne, Wellington, at Is 5d per acre, has been accepted for the survey of the Wopdville-Mangahao Special Settlement Association's Block.. ,-, Christcuhroh, Sunday I Mr James Baker, an old resident of Kaiapoi, died rather -suddenly yesterday afternoon of heart disease. At 'the fourth annual meetings of ' th«' Fanners' Co-operatiy« Association, th6' ; directors' report showed that the number of shareholders had increased to 1278, .-holding 5780 shares. During the year £1350 mortgage on the association railway : sidings and grain store , had been paid off. The nett profits for .the: year were £1347. It was decided to f pay a dividend of 7 per cent for the year. ,It was also .resolved to raise the issue- of shares to 8000, and to give the directors power to borrow to half the amount of the shares issued. IJunedin, Sunday. A boxing match for £50 aside and the championship between R. Mathews audW. Fly nn came off last night, and was won by Mathews in the ueveuth | round. Fourteen Alderney and 29 Ayreshire cattle (all well; bred) ware shipped to Syduey.yesterday morning. "' , . ,