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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1449, 8 September 1885, Page 2

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(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Monday. At the R. M. Court Harry LinehanXr^ was charged Vvith a breach of the Printers and Newspapers Registration Act by distributing a pamphlet entitled " Such Things Exist," written by Drs Cotterell and Gilbert, of Sydney, without an imprint. The prisoner was m the habit of giving the book, which is a disgusting publication, to boys to distribute m the streets. The police have seized 1000 copies of them. The- prisoner was fined £5 or seven days' imprisonment. Tuesday. The following are the insurances on the barque Edwin Bassett: — Colonial, £1500; reinsured m New Zealand, £350 ; Smith British, £250 ; Victoria, ; National, £250. The vessel is valued at £2,000. : ; Auckland, Tuesday. A fire broke out at 10.80 last night on board tbe Waihora, which arrived at 6 o'clock from the South, m the fore hold among a quantity Of flax and tow slapped at Wellington. . The fire >was discovered by Mr Baird f Chief Engineer. Fortu.'natcly there steam m the donkey engine. The Vomcers "with the ship's hose, aided by the fire brigade, suppressed the fire after it had been burning for an I tour. There is no damage to the passengers' luggage, or mails, or hull. The cause of the fire is unknown An average will be struck for the damage. No one had been m the fore-hold sinca leaving Wellington.