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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1694, 28 April 1886, Page 4

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(l E'R UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington. Tuesday. The Premier left tor Nelson this even injr. Mr Ballance is expected to return from the North on Friday. - A man named Marriot, a tailor, was found dead m a closet this afternoon. Tl^x^tase of death is unknown. — ~''~Tlio fe.rns sent H»me from New Zealand for the Indian and Colonial Exhibition arrived there m good condition. . . . Communications are pnssiug between the Home and Colonial Governments on the question of establishing a parcels post between here and the Mother CounTheTutara lizards, taken Home by Dr Von Haast, arrived m a healthy condition. Six out of tho twenty have been sent to the King ef Bulgaria, the remainder being placed m the Zoological Gardens. . Dunedint, Tuesday. Information has been received that owing to the illu«89 of his wife, Major Atkinson is unable to visit Dunedin to deliver an address. A numerously signed requisition has been sent to him . Chbistchurch, Tuesday. A woman of bad character, named Mary Ryan,. was found dead m a houkt m Peterborough stroet this evening. Mr Foster, master of the Courteriay School, died suddenly at Little River from heart dis«ase. Auckland, Wednesday. At its half-yearly uttering, the Bank of New Zealand, a'dividend of 15 per cent, was declared and £30,000 carried forward.