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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1668, 26 March 1886, Page 4

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(l-EB ff>4T^i) : PRESS AfisOCIATION') „ «JWjjllington, Thursday. The icftii'6 : f 'May iij the day fixed for the sitting 'of" the Court of Appeal at Wellington:;'':' 1 ;' V^; V ;; . ; tfr J. A> :i Wil^ : i«\ffa!3etted a judge of the'Native j ßatidC6iJrtV J ' ' The Gazette to-day contains an Order m Council prohibiting the, exportation of rock oysters,', arid; extending the close, season till 'March; 1889. ' ;' . •• ,'■' : The Manposa, with 'the '-'English . mails , of 25th February, left San .Francisco' "for. Auckland-' on' this" X"4th' instant, nhe day ' later than time-table date The Mararoa arrived atrSan Francisco from Auckland oh. the 2Brd inst., one day later than time table date. ; i; ''- .■ Negotiations are proceeding betweh the Postmasters-General' of this colbriy and New r S6titlr Wales /for formally settling the terms of the San Francisco mail serviced It is proposed to abolish the break at Honolulu provided m thecontract. -:•■'■.' No successor will be appointed to Mr Habens, as Inspector-General of Education. He will discharge the duties both of bis old office ; and of secretary to the department. ' ' :'. PUNEDIN, Thursday. ; The hearing of the libel action, Stewart - v. -Roydhouseyr. -was continued to-day , and the plaintiff's case principally conr eluded. ..-•..'.■"■■ •.>•■•■• So far as-cari be ascertained reports of a heavy commercial failure having taken place iv Dunedin are utterly without foundation. '1 '.... • A young 1 , man:, "named Metcalfe was fined 10s with £2168 cpsts for ill-treaty ing a horse, by. beating .it and attaching another horse ;to its neck by a chain to make it go.? He elected to 1 take the al..terhative of 'four days' imprisonment.