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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1618, 26 January 1886, Page 2

On a charge of using insulting lan« ! guage a Wanganui .defendant was fined 20sand coats 9s, and on that of allowing horjses'tp gander- at large . a fine,of.lO**and 7s posits wa»'inflicte.d. Y V . ;• 1 Some boys m Wellington for ill-treat-ing a Chinaman Were fined respectively £1 and costs, or '4B hours lmprisonmaai^ and 10s and costs, or 24 hours' impriKWment. " ' From a somewhat doubtful Press Association London message which arrived - on Monday evening, „W8 (Wellington paper) understand that the Bey.JDr Caddock, Principal of Brasenose College* Oxtord, who has been tor a considerable) time very ill, is dead. Sir George Bowea was mentioned some time ago asapos* sible successor to Dr Cradddofc. ;. ■,_>,

; For the p^ost of clerk to the Napier Harbour Board 34 applications. «rere»r&ceived. The Telegraph says.J;hai^» iapplicants were all sorts, and condition! ■of men, butchers, tailors, teachers, aotorg, and meohaniqs, stod many others who no : doubt considered that they bad* thorough jknowlede:© of contractors' wiles, and tarn ; method 'of driving piles with a -eross cue : saw. Ohe applicant inclosed his photo-— • but then he^was a good looking man.

Qn examining the arms and aoaontra*meatsof the/Manche»t»r Rifle? at JTetlA^ ing on Thiiirßday jast Gplonei* SiapV*** marked on 1 the dirty condition of torn* ot the rifles and sworcl bayonet*. H» said if he' saw any m a similar «obd(tfoft at next inspection, the? offenders would be fined i>l ineaoh case. ' : ~ v '• '•■# .Thejaccidenjb on the Hutt railway on Friday, which we reported on Saturday morning, was an .exceedingly seriouli 6£». As the last train from the Wairarapa— a long,excursion one, crowded with peopl* apprbdched' Ngahauranga^ . a paiseagtr \ named William Sherwih, who is said to : have been under -the inflnenoe of drink, either 'stumbled . or attempted ,to get off j the carriage nU'tfbrm!' M r Burj6»r j railway official who was on th« train, ' grasped him, and prevented him from falling underneath altogether tmtfc th« j train was stopped, but th© man Wa« Awfully injured by the wheel and; axle-hot of the carriage, against which he wm jammed. It was with great difflonlky that he was got out. Immediately Si arrival m town the injured man was geut to the Hpsnital, wh«re it was fouEßHftfct he Had broken both oollarbones and"kh'« left shoulder, blade. There was \st» % severe sCalp^wbund and a fraotnre of th« base of the skull v Sherwin stated that trtrwas a. farm 1 laborer, -and hid, bttn, working. r: ab«.at Ther«"wai: little ohahge m his" boaditioa" up to lat* thit there ia litfl© Hope bthitttShifc.--Wellington paper. ... One^df ;the limpleit and r««dieit wan of loosemug a rusty screw is to app^f heat to the^ head of thy screw.! A small bar or rpd of iron, flat at. this •nd, if reddened m the fire and applied for two or three minutes to the head of th« rusty screw, will, as soon.as ithtati th* screw, rander its withdrawal ai eai? with the screw-driver-ai-if it-war* oblt a recently inserted screw. „. The Woodville correspondent of thfr NapieJ fhmiiig NemyrneA ai 'follow* to that journal on Saturday :— Mr 'ISm'ner's bush .. wal firad : yesterday, and • U i5 at i»°^ t * B * ttler named Ptak » dertroflofc'all he had,. ; and ,iojuring\ th.4, property of another settler niimad Henry Bafcenui Peat was found iq a.: auf ocateA condition, and would have b'eeo burnt to death, but for Baker *escaiug him as. •'feraat'^erili . " > v .'■:'■ v -■.*•