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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1487, 22 October 1885, Page 4

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: (UNITED : PR SBS ASSOCIATION.) rL ' j f - .■ ' ' ;;■ V ■ ' ' - ' ' ' '•.'•"/' ' ' ' ' AtcJKLAND, Ayedneßday. : •:! Sailed, Crusader,^ f or London, with a : cargo valued at iJ3B,ooo— Gum, ! and wool, £14,519^- - Sailed— Arawa> for London, /with a cargo of frozen >meat and fifty sgjgerS;S v ?H fiOi"T^! V 7? Three French sailors attempted to de-sert-(from the' Maghpn ' last ' night by swimming ashore. With their clothes on their heads and 61bs of tobacco eaclil lit the " darkness' they eluded' the sentry by lowering themselvfta, with ropes, but. mistakingrthe direction,; 'swam 'doVn the harbor. „The CQld^paral^sedjthemj^nd tlitTy ; cried" for help. They" were rescued by a policeman,^andharidedoVet: to the captain of the Magon. - •■'•- -•■■• ■•■ Blenheim, Wednesday. Colonel Whitmore inspected the : Marlborough Volunteers this afternoon , m the presence of a great crowd of spectators. . : Dunedtn, Wedrtesay. At a special meeting of the Refrijgeratinsr Company the propesal sub- ; mitted by tlie directors authorising the 1 opening of an English agency was agreed j to. ;■■■_ ' .' • ">{ U.O ■:. ' ' ! . Wblli^gtoJJi i I At a meeting of the 'Friendly ties' Demonstration Comtriittee, a l vote of ; thanks and a donation "bf £10 were made I to the Wanganui G^rrjsdri Band for their ' services m connectibavvvith the demons Itration/-,' '[■' .'■ ; : '' ! ;';. "< •'.['" '' r ;l. .['., '