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Manawatu Times, Volume II, Issue 62, 23 May 1877, Page 2

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'■.■■'..■•- ; ._:.: : ''°:"' ' . :•■ May 17. ■.■■■§ : : ;Tne^jStsW&to&Bbard^ > y have handed-avEr ; tftftfoenPtbie I Vhole' W of the confiscated^laiids^ Which: ; tvill he \ y used^tp exhaust land scrip : I iaibQuiitihg4;bi£^3,OOo,'i ; ,tr(: >:,:;;- "\ 1 r r; r i iri 1, \ I reply to : a quesiidnr byj;a correspondent,- J • stateVthat Sir iJuUus-^^el has paid rent f ori-allotnients leasedt i The:;lots are '-now.' h being offered by Sir i Juliuar- i7ogel's | l.agen^. ■■;,..:,.; -^v j^w .-V^fv !- r : v : '. . : *'-d . .. : l , The , annual, meeting p£ the ' of dpjnmerce^^as^heidrtoX^a^i^^lMtteport/ expressed a iLope that Jiie^i^if c - would be infused iriidiiand^itsinfluencel .•(jatl^ented:^>.b'yi*'^'thei'l^lk^'4^'^ease- of members. . ; The committee regretted : \ thuifc lU i£^ suggestions Ye JDebtors aiid I I )-©redfesi!i^;j3^dyn!bt,^^ ; -last;. session by the Government, and Jf. believed that unless;/ £he»sla^yof bank- ■% ruptcy were amended m the manner Tp propbsed it would.fail -~t6*aiE£aiii the ends V| aimed at by the" Legislature. . The re- VI >port expresseif satis&btioWat the Pacific H m^il 1 arrangements; :Jtrid? '"thants the" » '•Wellington Ghamber": for it;s vpro'mpt co« | operation. The fshows : :-a" !\ credit balance i/of t&iQ&. ! '*s? Campbell,- 7 1 , the. retiring Qhairman».de,livered' an able 1 9,4dr.6ss. '■"; He coiisa^efed' iottrte&i mem- ■ bers' of the ■Harb i 6r Boar' 4 tooi many ,■ >;.'.| - rendering it iunworkable, ' and ' making j| the talking po#er eice^sive.- He con?-, k L ' deiianedthedbck-'site:- ;- j - ; ; v : ' ' ; At the shop of Hislop to-diiy' smoke . was observed to be-issuing^roitf between^ '_/-the:dinin^'Vvb,bar^^:-^The-'^b;oards were _'j pulled away and^Vfche flamesiTushed out/ | and ;dn , their, being extinguished pieces I of pajier, bone;s, 'and .pieces of raw meat,- f j aj^andleV a^SeVeral wax vestas were' -;/l ' : rfouiid ; it is "supposed that the fire was ,\ I cau^d,by^atißatiivg #match: r |