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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 36, 10 July 1885, Page 2

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ASSOCIATION. ■£. ■:;■_ i . Gh^istcuhech, Thursday The floods" on north Canterbury hav«^ subsided, but : considerable damage half been dpnain^isorae places to the railway^ linSs, and to theTand through scouring. It is also, feared that many cattle have been drowned. The weather is still unsettled. -V: '-- -V Auckland, Thursday. Buchanan, who was remanded to Otahuhu on a charge of burglarly at the Otahuhu railway station, served tor * number of years m the. police force, and was formerly clerk.pjr ttie it.M. Court at Ashburton. , ■ ■ i _. v! At the annual meetingk)F"tfie Cham* ber.of Oommerce held tp-day the Preai. 'dent,' M* John Eeid, read the report of the Committee, which reviewed the work of the year. Mr Graves Aitken M&a elected - President for ., the, ..ensuing year. '*■>■. : "' In the case of, Alex v \y;ebster J late sea. man of the steamer Giarloohj charged with rape onj©Uen Coimer, housemaid at ihe MaDukau^Hbtel, .Onehunga, the : accused was dischar|eSi > a'iTthe|Syidenca was insufficient. Dii.vEDiir, Thursday. . Mr Driver, who contested the Bruce seat with Mr. Gillies, has declined to stand lor the "vacancy. Two or three local candidates ate "likely to come for* ward, and probably-Mr- W. A. Murray, the former candidate,' will be asked to come out again. ,i;>'^ . Wellington, Thursday. Ihe Gazette notifies the appointment of Mr R. J. Gill as Judge of the Native %liahd Court, arid;MajoE W^l'EiSGrudgeon as Acting Commissioner of the Armed Constabulary during; _^he j^ absence Of Beader.^^T^ Gazette also notifies the appointment by the Wanganui Education,' Board of the Hon. John -Biyce, M.H.R.j aa! School^ Commissioner ' [for the .Wellington dis^ict-j MrJi Gibson as member of ttie Patea Harb'or^Board ; and Mr John'Handley as member of the iECarbor Bdardr-'' l^* The tender of the Union Insurance '/'Company ; f or ' irisurihgi they > Exhibition buildings and, contents his been accepted. The directors of the Gear Meat Company have .receiyed.^dvicejby, .cable that they- have been^w.ardecTa 'medal at the Antwerp EihibitibWf or their exhibit of .meat. " "~ r> . ; ? o-Ah accident of ! &' t paihful"'nai;are r'occurred at ; the- excavation works on Clyde Quay to-day. One of the men engaged .jnjstrippinga high cli£E aqcidentally let a pick fall, which struck m the back a man named Doyle, who was working beneath, -the point of the pick penetrating the lung. Friday. A case of suicide occurred last night. A youfig woman, nauied Alice Barnaby, aged 22,-engaged as domestic servant m a restaurant m townf yesterday afternoon purchased at the chemists, a box of Bough on Rats, and swallowed t>vo doses. Medical Aid summoned, and she was brought round about o'clock last night. Subsequently, however, she commenced to sink, and died at three, o'clock this morn3(o cause is assigned for/ the deed.