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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1690, 21 April 1886, Page 4

Jn March there were six accidental deaths in the colony, of which four occurred from diowningi There were also two suicides, both by hanging. Holt, when ftrrestedj was travelling in the disguise of a Roman Catholic priest, and had evaded conversation whilst in a railway carriage by perusing a prayerbook. ; "The cat saved from the wreck of the Taiaroa was a pet of Mrs Fitzgerald's and will be restored to her husband. W. 6. Seavoy, recently of Napier, has been adjudicated a bankrupt by the Registrar on a creditors' potition. The hawker nuisance was brought to a climax in papier en Saturday night. Two hawkers pitched -in the street between Ncal and Cloe's and the National Bank, and a fight ensued, which attracted an animated crowd of individuals. It is high time the police made rucli representations to the Municipal Council that may lead to the cancelling of all hawker's licenses, and to the issue of an order that no license shall be granted in the event of another Doing in existence. Cheap Jacks' and itinerant confeotioners offer no wares but what can be bought in the shops, and we are of opinion "that it is not fair to tradespeople, who hav« to pay high rentals and local rates, that their business should be cut into by anyone by the payment of a small license fee.— Telegraph. ' Sergeant John Penn, one of the " Six Hundred," has just, died at Dunbar. Penn wa« specially mentioned in Kinglake's " History of the Crimea " as being a most dashing soldier. He had eight m«dalß.