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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1571, 2 December 1885, Page 4

W. Anderson, fellnionger, a resident of Kaikora, Hawke's Bay, has been arrested owing to suspicious circumstances m -connection with a fire which destroyed his hou,se and furniture yesterday. <■ The four Wairoa Natives who partook of bread m which strychnine had been used m mistake for soda are recovering. One man who had eaten a larger quantity died. A verdict of accidental poisoning was returned. We direct attention to Messrs Snelson & Co.'s special sale of drapery, (Sec., to take place to-morrow at 2 p.m. We learn that Mr T. Nelson has resigned his appointment of postmaster and telephonist at Ashurst. Many of the residents speak m the highest terras of Mr Nelson's uniform civility and efficiency m his. discharge of official duty. Since his appointment we have never heard a word of complaint as to any lack of attention on his part to the requirements of the public, by whom his urbanity and desire to oblige were generally recognised and appreciated. Special attention it directed to Messrs Welch & Co.'s altered advertisement, setting forth arrival of goods specially ordered for Christmas and New Year presents. A woman named Margaret Nester, an inmate of the Napier Lunatic Asylum, persistently refused to take food for a period of forty days. She literally died of starvation. Speaking of the effects of the climate and of its wonderful fecundity, Mr Travers said at the Petone demonstration that one of the early settlers Mrs Donald Fraser, of Rangitikei, had 11 children, 72 gaandohildren, and 132 great-grandchildren, all of whom were still living. If Mrs Fraser was to be judged by Madame de Stael'u aphorism, that the best woman was she who had the largest number of children, then Mrs Fraser should receive a gold medal and a large tract of land as well, ("Applause and laughter .) Ho recollected, before Mr Stout was m the Colony, a former Premier, Mr Domett, writing to the Nelson Examiner, that the principal products of New Zealend were potatoes and laws. (Laughter.) [A voice : '* Aud lawyers."] The production of lawyers was, no doubt, keeping pace with the production of the laws. If the lawyers turned' out as indifferent as the laws, all he could say was that (hey would not be up to much. i

Aiiion^ the iruerfts who were present at th« laying of tin: foundation stone of the Wellington Woollen Company's mill was Mr G. M. Meed, formerly editor of Auckland 67a? 1 , OUijo Guardian ami other colonial journals. Mr Ki-ed is now ono of the editors of tho Anglo-New Zealander. The steamer Hauroto, which left Wol lingion on Saturday night for Sydney, had on board 22 homou and 1200 tons cargo, chiefly consisting of prwduue shipped at Southern ports. She also took a quantity of produce from Wei-' lington. As. illustrating tho difference between New Zealand and Great Britain, it may be mentioned th.\t Mr Macdunald stated on Saturday al the foundation ceremony that tliero had been coiiHidorable ditliuulty m obtaining a farthing to place with other coins of the raaliu under tho foundation stone of the Wellington Wooliou Company's mill at Petone.

an omnibus general or common tamer duly stationed on any such stand as al\m;saJ.l to remain m such stand until the time at which the driver, proprietor, conductor, or other agent for the proprietor has undertaken to start, and m the meantime to ta Ice up a.s many passengers as it can conveniently carry. Every proprietor or driver of a licensed vehicle who shall offend against any of the foregoing byelaws shall be liable for every such offence to a penalty of 10 shillings, provided nevertheless that the Court before whom any complaint may be made or any proceeding may be taken m respect of any such offence, may if it thinks n't adjudge the payment as a penalty of any sum less than the full amount of the penalty imposed by tins bye-law.