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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1638, 18 February 1886, Page 2

It iv evident that, tboiFeilding burgessißßido not take. very much interest in licensing matters .within their borough. ; Tuesday was the day to receive nominations of candidates: lor the annual election of a Licensing committee, but not a giqgls. candidate f <s j;h.e office was forthcoming. '.): ',■ ; ■■'•'/. j The contract for the railway bridge over, th> Hawkesbury (N.BLW:)— the largest work "of the kind in Australasia 7-has beiftn given to the Union Bridge Company of N ew York. The amount is £227,000 and two years are allowed for the completion of the work. By that time there will be a continueu's railway jouaney trbm : Melbonrne io'Brisban'e, Jhpwg}} wHb two'breaks of guage. At £he ]sew B{y mouth,. li.M. Court the other day, Phjllip John Aubrey was charged with using obscene words. Defendaniaaid'he was that drunk he did not remember anything, and would throw himself on the niercy of the j Court. He said he was one- of the oldest identities in £3ew Zealaud, having come oiit in the Columbus, and been in the colony 57 years ,* add he had never b'pen. in court. He was born, he said, on jhe 3rd ,Jqly,' l7Bs. and was 10 years oFda't tLba^le of ' Trafalgar, and 20 ye,arsoldai the battle of Waterloo. His Worship Jet him off, but warned him that if he appeared before the court again, he would be sent to prison, oven if he were one hundred years ■4iK-i: ■'■■/,:.<■<;)■, „. . s .. :.•-..,;,: ; ■ „; Sajs ifones, fte reylyilist, recalls seeing a 'steamer it ha 6oi|e)?s6 small and' a whistle so large that Whenever the' whistle blew the boat stopped for want of steam. A case of small power and large blowing of course.* It is a good portrait of many a man j who makes on* necessary noise in the world. . . , The Hawera Star is informed fiat 'the mile supply at the Normanby, Cheese Factory, has now reached, 2oo gallons a day, and is increasing. There is now about £150^worth of cheese , \n hand, which is in good conditiou, and is ripenjing for market, f " Y'U.'-iV r"v <■ ' Art appeal .has; been^lpdged. against Mr Wardsll's decision against the plain* tiff in the case $£■ Dark t y ( , the Island Bay Company, which .was ne'ard in the Welljngton Court 'on Friday lasp. •*