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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 56, 5 August 1885, Page 3

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;; (UNITED PEBSSAaSSOCIATiON.) V: .';-■:-. Wellingtpn, Ttießday. In the lease against Gordon, chemist, for selling ..-••'Bough on Rats V without a poispti label, he was fined one shilling and costs. A'similar fine , was imposed on Mee. for havingi sold the same compound without registering it. The analysis of it showed that a box of it consisted of pure mercantile arsenic worth about a halfpenny. . .. \'U, Blenheim, Tuesday, A five-roomed house, occupied by E. |fi. Thomas, Red wick, was burned down night. Tlie cause is unknown. Insurance—Royal, £100 on house and £20 on furniture. ;•••■■• Auckland, Wednesdayi The Janett Nicoli returned from .the Islands torday with delegates sent by the Chanibar of.Goaimerce. Tlie' Press Associations Special Correspondent reports that the delegates were qnite satisfied that a great field for colonial enterprise exists m these Island*, and if New: Zealand is not- to be out run; , m the; race, it must eitablish.co'nunercial relations pii a systematic basis before the opening of the Panama Canal. In Tonga English influence is steadily supplanting Geviran, and the 'Govern-ment-seek to enter into closer communication with New Zealand m Samoa. Gerihan pressure is slowly driving natives to take shelter under the protection of England, and the German trade, .though at present superior to English, is slowly) declining. Oh Taviti and French Polynesia Island there is every desire to strengthen relations with New Zealand m the Cook Group, where trade is principaHy absorbed by this colony, there is every indication m favor of bringing the whole of the islands to New Zealand by means of a Trading tJompany. .