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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1644, 25 February 1886, Page 4

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(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION :) Auckland, Wednesday. .'A requisition to Major Atkinson asking him to address a public meeting m Auckland, is being signed. Four hundred signatures Have already been appended. Sir George Gray is m town, and is expected to address a public meeting on .■"Friday. A large number of N.Z. Rifle Association representatives left by the Penguin ' yesterday. The Oreti takes the balance to-morrow. -.-. • A cablegram has been received stating ifchatthe barque Caberfedh, which arrived at Melbourne from Manakau had lost a man named Sullivan, who was .washed overboard on the passage. At the inquest on the body of Wood, who'was killed at Cambridge, a verdict of accidental death was returned. De•ceased was a grandson of Colonel Haultain. ' Wellington, Wednesday. .... Cardinal Moran left for Wairarapa today, en route for Napier, where he makes a. brief stay, and then proceeds to Auckland. At a meeting of the Wellington Meat Preserving and Befrigerating Company, the balance-sheet, which shewed the loss to be nearly £9000, was adopted, and it was decided to carry on the - business with the understanding that the shareholders are to be again called together m May to consider the company's operation between the present time and that date.