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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1603, 8 January 1886, Page 4

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( UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION J Auckland, Thursday. ■Mr Charles McColl's residence, Coro- • mandel, was burned. It was uninsured.The Waikato mystery is riot yet cleared up. The police can -find no trace of Jimmy Dunbar, and it is now almost certain that he is the murdered man. The captured carpet snake "on theEllerslie Grand Stand was handed over to Profressor Thomas, who chloroformed it, and it will be preserved as a specimen m the museum of the Auckland (Jniver- <; ■ sity. , . „.-<■;. ! ' Wellington, Thursday.' The Hens. G. M. Waterhouse and W, B. D. Mantell, also Mr W. T. L. Travers, are gazetted governors of the New Zealand Institute. A young man named F. Sympns, manager of Gilmpur's Family Hotel, t which is situated opposite the scene of > the late fire, was arrested this afternoon charged with having certain tobacconist's wares m his possession, which it is alleged he had stolen during the time the fire was raging. The man Howard, who was arrested on a charge of attempting to defraud the Life Insurance Association, was ia the habit of wearing a glove with gutta percha m the inside , of the thumb to conceal the fact that part of his thumb was missing. .. ......-; . , Fridayi j Mr Ebenzer Fox, who for mariy years has been secretary to the Executive Council, died this morning from what is called creeping .paralysis. M. Fox had been ailing for the last 18 months and latterly had been on leave of absence, ~ but the change had little effect, and gradually he was loosing the power of his hands and -legs, and yesterday he was removed from Wellington Club to the hospital, where he expired at 6 this morning, aged 59. , „; ■ It has been decided to entertain Admiral Try on and offiaers of the Nelson at, a ball and the crew at a picnic. She iv expected to arrive on Monday.