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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1608, 14 January 1886, Page 4

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! i * .*"'■ ■'-... % <: i (UNITED PRBBS ASSOCIATION.) ■ Auckland,-- Wednesday. The Grand Lodge of the New Zealand Independent Orderiot GooS/ Templars opened their twelfth annual session at *the Temperance Hall to-day. . . „ k , . ... The Minister of Public Works' yester-r day crossed the Punui Bridge by train, beipg the first entry of ' the iron horse i into the King Country. m The manager r o£ 'the National *Bank received a cable to-day announcing the third instalment of the Auckland City loafa, amounting to £25,000, at 5 per cerit.» ifloate^at £111 Is 9d. The" last instalment of the loan was placed at £109 2s lpd: X, ■! / .'. . :h : In a bush fire on the Kaipara railway 200 tons of firevrood and a quantity of growing bu'ah were burnt. The railway bridge was burnt through by cinders frojm the locomotive. .. ._, ' Wellington, Wednesday. Telegrams received by the Government state that the prospectors who are to throiifhlv search the King Country for gold will make a start to-morrow whfen they expect td reach Te Awamujtu. / - i ,.... Dr Arthur Claydon is booked as a passenger for England by the Tainui on Sunday next; It is understood that Mr Cla-ydon haY made arrangements, with the Government to lecture m the agricultural counties of England on ,New Zeax land, with a view to the' encouragement of immigration of small capitalists and, farmers.- '— , „ \ ■) \ % In connection with the 1 inquiry % into" the recent narrow escape from a collision on the railway between an arriving. passenger train : and a shunting engine, .the; driver of the passdnger* train ;.has been disrated for six .months, and the driver of the shunting engine for three months.. .' .- * \ *.. '•■-{■'■ . ; ;■ ; : * ' ' " ' '.' ' ~ :•■'""' Thursday. The Governor returned this morning and pays a visit to Admiral Tryon thia -afternoon. DuNBDiN, Wednesday. The hearing of the case Jones y. Buckland, for. which -damages were claimed 1 for breaches of the covenant: of lease, which damages were claimed for non-re-pair of the buildings and fenc»s with for not clearing their land and i£2ooo for. allowing it to be overrun with couch grass,- was conelded 1 toJday,-the ' : jury finding for the defendant on all .the issues. ' ' The case of the Franco-Egyptian Bank v. Bank of New Zealand, a claim of. £2236.armng out of a bill of exchange on j'some sugar sent by Turnbull, the proceeds of which it is alleged were paid to the Bank of New Zealand, was commenced but not finished. At the Presbyterian Synod to-day notices of motion :were given m favour of appointing Dr Salmond and Dr Co^eland to succeed Professor McGregor a? the University m the mental'; and moral philosophy chair.** A motion wast also given notice of that the appointment be left- with the University Council; / "