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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1660, 17 March 1886, Page 4

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(IBR O^ttBD.PiiESS ASSOCIATIdK.) r . - j'lttlit -Is- • -' t .-..-..■ '■ ■ ■■ . - ; ")•. Christchdhoh,- Tuesday. It is »fete& ; hfere 1 that the' East and "West Coast railway guarantors committee- have %if6i'ination that 1 ; a powerful syndicate m London is 1 m; treaty with' the comnfittee and Government for the construction oIE the line. ' • : Alfred ■Siinpson, a well-known bookseller of ttiiscity,' has commenced. an action against? His' .wife : for divpircei The case will be 'tried at the April' sessions of the Supreme Court. • • Y^ ..prjOTpi^, /Tuesday. .. The Cricket Association have had to abandon jbheiidea of 'playing the return match with) Canterbury, being unable to ge,t togetlfec anything like a representative team. . f An attempt was made by Mr Ward, torpedo instructor, to try a torpedo boat-' which had been lying on the slip at Port \ Chalmers foe nearly two years, but something wenttwrong, and the trial had to be abandoned.,, r . •'. '.>•.' ,■.■■' ' .' Wbl/Hngton, Wednesday. The AgenJrQeneral i has sent the Government.,a letter received by. him from ■' the agents of the Dprio stating that they had raceived serious complaints from the Doric at .Capetown of the discomfort < caused to the passengers by the stoats, i ■weasels, and pigeons which were taken by that steamer. The surgeon strongly recommends they should not be carried, .and the agents state- that they will be unable to-acoepfr-f reight " of this kind m future. The shipment, . however; was not sent through the. AgentrGenerals' : Departmejot.^ .. — ,■- It has beejo .definitely .decided that . Parliament will be called . together for the dispatch 'of business, during the first or second," we#k of May. The Hitjernian Society held their annual demonstration to r day, and anew banner imported by the Society was blessed by Bishop lledwood at the Cathedral this morning. I . Wanganui, Wed nesday. The Wangantii Gold Prospecting Company's prospector S'have written from Kihikihi with regard to the reswlts of. prospecting. , The. latter are said to be fairly satisfactory. ,;, '