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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 35, 9 July 1885, Page 2

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. ! (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.); ] Wellington, Wednesday. The Wellington-Manawatu "Railway Company hare received applications for more than the 1500 shares required to he subscribed for m the colony m order to raise the requisite additional capital pi ,£200,000 required for ihe completion of the line. .■■.--' „- \A meeting of barmaids -employed m .Wellington is to be held on Friday to protest against the proposed repressive measure. . ; ! - ' .At a meeting of County Council dale- ' gates held here to-day the following resolutions were carried :— That the proposals now before the House as a local government are not calculated to develope a permanent system of effective local government m the colony ; that this conference is 6f opinion, that local ■government should remain in' stiibu quo during the present year, arid;, that rands should be provided to meet! the demands of the counties and road iboards under the Roads and Bridges^Act, and that meantime a Koyal Commission should be issued to inquire into the question with a : viflw to facilitate legislation. The conference adjourned until to-morrow. At an inquest on the body of an infant, found m the Gardens on Monday, a verdict: of found dead was returned. ':' In the glove 'fight between Pettengell of Wellington; and Donovan of Auckland the former preyed the victor. ;. '- Blknheim, Wednesday; Another Blenheim libel action bag been commenced by Mr James i L. Sinclair, having issued a writ against Mr Richard Hornby, proprietor of the Marlborough primes, , claiming £1000 dam^ ages m respect of an article commenting' on Mr Sinclair's, connection with the exchange qf hospital sites. Mr Conolly has bee* retained for the plaintiff. The 6aso will be tried at the Supreme Court here m October.