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Patea Mail, 7 December 1881, Page 3

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This Afternoon. Decision on Trading. Dunedin. In respect to a number of prosecutions re Sunday trading, the City Bench to-day decided that the Licensing Act does not prohibit the keeping open of the door of a hotel or access to the bar, or a person to serve travellers. STORMY PROCEEDINGS. Mr Watt, the new Ministerial candidate for Wanganui, addressed a large meeting of electors last night. A vote of thanks and confidence was moved, followed by amendment of thanks and no-confidence, Mr Bryce tried to speak in response to calls, but not being an elector he was. ruled out of order. He was assailed with cries of “ Turn-coat,” and great uproar prevailed. Amendment of no confidence in the candidate was carried by 120 to 117. Latest CABLE News This Afternoon: Fight with a Slave Ship. Aden, sth. News has reached here of the death of Captain Charles J. Brownrigg and four of the crew of her Majesty’s ship London, the store vessel stationed at Zanzibar. While endeavoring to effect the capture of an Arab slave dhow, Captain Brownrigg, in charge of the ship’s pinnace, fully manned, came up with a slaver off the African coast near Zanzibar, and attacked her. The crew of the dhow offered strong resistance, and desperate fighting ensued, resulting in Captain Brownrigg and four of his crew being killed and several wounded. The slaver beat off the pinnace and escaped.