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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1660, 17 March 1886, Page 2

. The tbial indebtedness .of • tf ictoriai on ©eceniber 31 , if ter paying bff £3;219i520 worth of six per cent, debenture* -which then Wll du» ' was £28;537,887;and with >the new'ioan thy'debt :i mU amount to £30,037,887^ ; ;fVy V ; ;" J VT"' ' The .tptaHexpprfc pf^ T^w" Zealand duringfl'Bßs/ .ai ppniparea with " 1884 tare «s 'follow* :-? : ', .'['.■■'."t I.V« °" 'i ;,v! '" V ,-1884. . ."■:. ;■■■.".' 1885; :;"'• W001 ... ihßßi;i39;o2B,' 1b586,5Q7,431 . ?alfle:<,; • ; , S^mpp; :It : wiU:be seen that, m 1884 wool 'was, yaluteii'.fotrexP^'.'^ "W ayerage'price of " estimated yat^ of ; mpr«» than |d per IbY .A.ris£ of ldjper. lb'in the yfo'ol* market If maintained for awhole year, now represents to'^ewj/Zeaiaritl m income of : mrire|t^nU£3!Sold()o M»n the wtporte' alone! exolufHve. of : tbja wool worked up withia'th'e colony.' IV ' A daio; of j »6dden ; • death; is reported from Sirtitford. ;We» understand that. ,I)r LiEhtbourq© was . sutuinoned to visit ajtiaughter: of Mr Ireland, a. resident on 'Pembroke road, but when he arfj^ed phe; was dead;,aadihe is unable to., give, a cercificate. It is prettycertajn that an inquest will bo held, but-lhe . police afe now m commtinicatipn with fthej coroner on the subject. A brother; of deceaßed die^i suddeniy ,in,J ; uno last^ and.jat the, inquest it was jshown that jthe, causa of. death; was worms, the Qapebejng an ex- ; , traordinary one. — Hawera Star.

The other day there was: an exciting .chaise iv the,' Marylobone-rojid ?ifte.r,j» ■ fox which, it was believed, bad ■ from the Zoological ■Crardens. A?. conStable and a crowd, chased Keynard into a garden, where; an atteinp't, was ..made to capture him, alive, .but even with, the rope used m the chose after/ stray. dogs and a muscle contributed by a bystander this, could np,t 'be acpboipHshed,^ and eventually. ,the animal was struck V oyer-, the head and killed. „ „ v .'... .;,,__ <' : .'J" The Turakiria ■■ vßoad: >" Bridge; is !tto«fd closed for wheel traffic, while thfl- fridge is undergoing .repairs. ~^. M ..,. ,