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Manawatu Standard, Volume XII, Issue 1745, 28 June 1886, Page 2

. The following carious advertisement of a death appeared m a Wellington paper :— Stajjpoqle.— On the 2lst June, at Tologa Bay, Bartholomew Stagpoole, of typhoid fever, aged, 2l yearg ;.. deeply regretted by a '''large circle of friends. P.S. — Deceased was a powerful, athlete, iitood 6ft.' 2}in;;~ weighed''- 1£ stene. : Bte fought several battles with the gloves, -all ot which tie won. : W; The sale of land which the Land Board purooHA boldintr , m the course of a few ' weeks, will be the largest whioh that body has conducted for several years. Over 30,000 acres, almost all of whiokis m the Wairarapa district, will be offered.; Some of the land will be put up on the perpetual lease system, while .other portions will be offered under the oaah and deferred payment- systems. : None of the cash or deferred payment .sections . can^ be jsold at less thai^ &V per acre. The date of the; sale cannot be fixed until the Governor has given his consent, baft it is believed that it will not take plabe-. until the beginning of August.—Wellington paper . I j j