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Manawatu Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1706, 12 May 1886, Page 4

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m. (united pbess association) I' Auckland, Tuesday. m Mr William Nobie, the temperance I lecturer, has commenced his mission at ■ the Aucklnnd Tohernßcle. At tbe ■^ inaugural meeting 1200 were preß«nt. I V Wellington, Tuesday. ■ Captain Fukuthima and some of the' ■ Japanese of the Japanese warship ■ Tsiku'm caruo ashore to-day and paid ■> their respects to His Excellency the GoH. K vpmor. She remains here about ten ■< 10 days, and then proceeds to Fiji, and H Honolulu, and will probably return here H about October. * ■- Blenheim, Tuesday. H The Blenheim divorce case, Dorreen H . v. Dorreen and Diamante, reaulted in a decree nisi being granted, with costs against the co-respondent, the mother to H^' have the custody of the youngest child till it is seven years old, and the father the custody of the other two. The Supreme Court sittings are now finished. Christohdbch, Tuesday. ;'•■ In view of a strong feeling here that the liolding of a demonstration would interfere with the assignment of the Midland railway contract, the Mayor of Christchnrch has decided he will not for the present proceed with the arrangeConstable Allen left by train today catch the Wairarapa at the Bluff and proceed to Melbourne with the warand other documenls necessary for to take into custody W. H. Messenhotelkeeoer, of Cliristchurch, who Hji charged with deserting his wife and six children last February. This it the first occasion that the Fugitive Offenders Aot has been utilised for the purof bringing to justice a person of such an offence who had levanted to another colony: