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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 45, 21 July 1885, Page 3

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(UNITED PRESS AKSOCIATIONO Auckland, Monday. A Trades' Union was formed here of the wefkerß" m the 4 yaTioufi ;)bifan(c;lie» of theirontra.de.* It l'sKsitated that" Professor Strong, whom'Pfofess'or. Tucker succeeds at Mel-, bourne University, is likely to be a candidate ii>r Tucker's : vacant professorship. The Auckland University, is at present under.. Professor Laten, of the University. College, Liverpool. The schooner Krilnildlda, belonging to the Auckland Timber. Company, was wrecked on Saturday night between the Baypf Islands and Wangaroa during a north-east gale. She was uninsured. No liyes were lost. ' A seam of coal nine feet think was discovered • at Wharekawa, opi>osite Grah&nistown. : Further trial borings are being made to prove the area of tne coal.; - : : Aline of tramway 13 being surveyed to the Pokeno station, on the Waikato railway. •■;■'■ '■■ - : .' ; '-;'\;'; • ; '....,.;, ' - , ' v 'WEiiitNaTON, Monday. It'is understood that Government have received favourable cables from the dele-, gates.' sent Home m re^rd to the East r ahcl West i Coast (Middle Island) Railway/; . " :',-■■ -,-.■',.• •> - In Bankruptcy Court to-day an application was .made-on behalf of the London City Missionary Society, requesting to be allowed to prove against the estate , of: WilTuun Waring Taylor for a debt of JEoOOp. The matter has been allowed to stand over pending the receipt^ of, a communication irom Mr, James Arundel, one of the supervisors m the eitatei and who is at present m Sydney; .. ; ... ,"-,.;.; Napier, Monday. T-he ;; Hawke's Bay. County Council mot this afternoon, wben a telegram was forwarded* to the Government that the Couocil were, of opinion that the proposal to : make the county chairman elective would lead to groat expense, and be unpopular. The'proposal to elect auditors by popular vote, it was thought hotter to haye the report of an independent Government auditb^^ one whose only qualification niight be that he was a popular m an. .... ;' : " Medical examination showed that Mrs Jacobsen, ; who ; was found m the ... bush last we^k, and trhose friends refused to let her be buried after the inquest, to be quite dead, and the funeral took place yesterday.-

jDdnedin, Monday.

One of the Great Extended Company's batteries at; the Blue Spur, Lawrence* was burnt down yesterday. It was insured m the Mercantile Union for £600, and m the EquiUble for a similar amount. The latter is partly reinsured; The loss is £1800 over the insurance. No cause is assigned for the fire. T-hs committee of the Otagb Rugby Xr^* :> h^v&repißiveS : Ky^tfieyJn^:^^u^^ nvvtion that the London Rovers/ fbotbal. lers; are to make a tour thrOilgh Austratta and New Zealand during the sum m er of 1,836. They will leave Home at Jhe end of Februaryj; and play first m Australia, making Dunedin the first ot second .week m July. The Rovers play under Rugby rules. .• . At the annual meeting of the Dunedin Jockey Club the report showed that the club Qommehced the year with a debit baUn.ee of £321, and ended with a credit balance of £693. Some £6736 was given m stakes, £1300 more than the previous year. The, Hon. Mr McLean was elected president,, and: Mr J. Stevenson vice--president. : The Wellington footballers were met ftt the railway station by a large crowd, and. heartily cheered^ They are to be taken round the district to niorrow-i „, .KAiKOURAi Monday. Jamas Burnett, a tailor committed s.qjcid,e early this morning by cutting: his tjir'oat with a ra^or. He had been prinking fur spine time intermittently. Christchurch, Monday. . T\\a bpdy of the man Djolan who was drowned at Rakaia on the 13th, was discovered yesterday washftd up on a ebillffle spit near the mouth of the river. A lire'occured at Danefield this morning. Albert's saddlery aud genei al stora was burnt to the ground, nothing being ■aved. . .. ■•: •.•-:■; ■ r ' ' .■' ;