LOCAL AND GENERAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1623, 1 February 1886, Page 2

LOCAL AND GENERAL.

" ' Two coaches arrived from Napier on Saturday evening, bringing the northern representatives who competed at the Fire Brigade cometitipu m Napier last • week. - : ' ■"■ : - ... '' ■'„■ ; ' The Irish National League have undertaken to suppress boycottiog. The frozen meat bythe R.M.S. Kimutaka iaatlliner m London, at, sd per lb. The Captain f of the Afghan hap befln fined £100 for his connection with the fraudulent naturalisation papers held by Chinese pasiongers on bis vessel. , A Sydney telegram states that New' Zealand whoat and oats show an improvement m value since last week's report. New Zealand wheat,' 3s>, 7dilpe.ru bushel ; New Zealand oats, 2s 5d ; maize pers6lb,4s3d. Specimens of gold, cinnbtr^ and marble.have been receiyed;-at InvercarjEfill,^ 'from Nokomai.} 1 Th§ gold; *ras the] Result; of one diinfiil frbiid Hnnter Wd Co's shaf ts, and wejghs t ldwt 17grs. dbieri copiprfofeil arf jiqw. jt'; .work m the district. ; . ( At the sittings of the X ! uckl ahd^ Trade and Labor Congress, motions were car* ried denouncing the truck system prevailing m the Anokland country, saw 1 mills, and m favor of returning working . men as Parliamentary representatives ( m the inspection of jworkshops ; the liidbperative principle i ;a,tai' to secure' to 1 thn State the future unearned- incienlenti and the eight hours should be aworking, day £or the whole Colony.: } . ; ; . , 1 We^Pos^ 'inderßtand that Mr Henry t Bunny, J.P., t Featherston, will .contest the Sofatli Wairarapa scat withlirW; C. Buchanan at the' * next general eledtion.

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