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Poverty Bay Standard, Volume XI, Issue 1275, 14 February 1883, Page 2

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frSR UNITBD EBSSS ASSOCIATION], WELLINGTON. This Dsy. The Gazette issued last night contains a ProeUm»tion .signed by the Governor, declaring an amneety to *ll Maoris for all motioned in the Amneety Act of 1883, and that it ehell be subject to the provisions of the Act, to extend it to all Maoris, and that there shall be no exception from the operations thereof. Epiha Taha, a Native who was tried at Auckland in July last, on a charge of shooting at a surveyor at the Thamee with intaht to kill, and sentenced to three years' penal servitude, has been pardoned by His Excellency on the groundsit, is understood that the dead was committed by his haau. The South Island Extension Railway Com mission handed in their report to the Government at noon. Nothing as yet hae toanspired as tojits purport.

WANGANUI, This day. The tralne yesterday morning and evening between Waverley and Nukumaru, on the way to Wanganui, were brought to a standstill through the countless thousands of caterpilars on the rails. The offleiale had to tween and sand the metals before the trains could proceed. The man named Denis Donovan, who mye. teriously disappeared on Sunday morning, wae found in the river this morning. An inquest will be hold to-day. _ CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. The annual meeting of shareholders of Canterbury Tramway Company was hold fIW day. The reeeipte for 1882 were <11,484 19e 7d. being H per cent of those of IML The expenditure was £9.671 0s fld. It was propowd to pay a dividend of 8 per eant absorbing £2020. The number of naeaengero carried during the year was 987,828 being an increase of over 30,000 for that ol 1881. OAMARU, This day. A young man named Wm. Batly, supposed to be a runaway sailor, was killed this morning in Thames street, by falling from a horse. The animal beeamb restive, and the man in attempting to jump off fell head foremost, breaking his neck.