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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 44, 20 July 1885, Page 3

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(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) .:.;; r: ; AtrcKtANjp, Saturday. „. I Woodyear's circus took Jl2o0 at Fiji, and proceeds to Tonga. r The tea industry is thriving m Fiji, and it ia intended,' as local requirements * are supplied, to export to New Zealand. ; The late reductions m the price of sugar have' cons iderably affected the in- . dustiy ikFijiV arid 'one lars;eiirai lias snstaihod groat losses. . „ Prdfessor Aldis has resigned ' the chairmanship of tne Board of Educa--1 tion v : ':;.. .' ... : .. ;.':.; ;■;.;• -"..' ; '. ; .... , ; : ; Sf ary Bafts, 1 a M angare Maori, aged 13, who committed suicide at Wuim«, did sb because it appears her father would not let her marry, a young Maori with whom she was cohabiting. William Hanson, seaman of the Noteroi died::fro.m^injories : ;receiyed; m discharging cargo by- the slings of the barque, i; > ,-. ■.■■\.-i; :;-.--- : j ■";•;■ -"■ ':" -•■:-;- i Tlio Jahot Nicol, under contract to the: Naw Zealand Government, was at Haawai on 29th June. She was to leave on the same day m continuation voi her 'cruise. All; are well. : A- concert ; was Trclri tinder' the conductorship of Herr Schmidt m aid of , the fund to send the Artillery Band to Welling-to i to compete m the band, contest. The Garrison Band and three others The <^horal. Hall" crowdeH..!; \ f }.y 'i'V*. t * : l% f ! The%oni(en^of ihe Christian TemjJerance Union have decided to send delegates .to the colonial .. convention. (Sh&f. Unibn is to be held m the SoutU"at the ' eM of the year; \ ■■n^Rtui'iic. • ■}■ <>■ :< :^m&mi, Satu^pW Yesterday morning. .,,; an inquest j w««r, held on Mrs Jacobsen^ who \ya| found-,, dead m the bush on Wednesdayiinormng and the verdict was death from exposure.' To-night, the ; the'Hemid 'wiris that the : 're#strar<of^ deaths at Norwood : J reports sthatfvthao friends of the woman, refuse, to^aUpw.^er^ : to fae buried, having noticed. sign3,6f $i£ since the. inquest. The' coroneT wireaT instructions how to act, and instructed DnMirbachtoproceed^ once. ';.'■ .- -. , ■ ■.-■■ i. ;'-\v;;-: : r.6fiSßoirt« l *-'S*na«yr t At a publiqVmeetinfff.^s^Jutignaj wesC carried disapproving pf^th^M^tive Land Disposition Bill riow oeiore Parliament, and approving Xjand ? Consolidation Bill.; i/ /j-'l^? •£" Vtv ; • The Wellmgipnifpotballr^a^nileft for the sputh-vthi? morning. Thpug|h :.not; perhaps the strongest team that could be 3 got together, it is considered a fairly strong' one. ; J •■■■;■ '7^ ' :: -^ , : ': (•':■: \'.