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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1720, 26 June 1884, Page 2

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(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedik, Wednesday. Tlie liouso of Charles Pearco, of Mornington, was totally destroyed by fire last night. It was insured in the Royal for £2OO. Dunedtn, Wednesday. By the decision of .Judge Carew in the lI,M, Court to-day the Saddle Hill Gold Minining Company are unable to recover calls front six shircholders,

Auckland, Wednesday, The iS T e\v Zealand Tobacco Factory is now in full swing, anil the . weekly turn out of cigars is 251,000, . Larcenies ovidently carried out by a well-organised Hand are being reported .at the "rota of half-dozen a day. Tho police appear powerless, The South British Insurance Company has a policy for £IOOO on Jaggors mill which is partly re-insured - in the National and other offices,

A three-roomed cottage in St Mary's convent property, used as a washhouse wag destroyed by fire, the loss boing £IOO,

Some time ago Captain Johnston, of Raglan, a relative of the late Colonel Speedy, committed suicide, The probate is now being asked for by his will of which the following is a copy"l, John Campbell Johnston, do hereby this late will and testament, revoking all others, I bequeath my soul to the Great Creator who sits throned with care of million ot worlds which I believe he governs by fixed laws, Through his infinite. mercy I hope for progressivehappiiicssafter this life, which is possibly punishment for 'sins done in some old world.' -I bequeath niy body to lire, I beliove burning dead to be classical and cleanly, and with respect to living, for sanitary and other reasons, the best means of disposing of the dead, I request that my family do not go into mourning for ine. My wife is provided for by marriage settlement to an- extent I am aot in a position to increase. I bequeath all my property, real and. personal, of which I may die possessed in equal shares to my children. I desire my sons to strive against the abominable injustice of swindlers calling themselves the Government of New Zealand, who, for the purpose of enriching themselves, have borrowed many millions from the people of England, wlio I hayo repeatedly warned through the Press of England that they will lose their money, The rising generation of New Zealand is not answerable for debts thus contracted by English adventurers, they ■ neither borrowed nor benefitted by the money, on the contrary, it is the cause of our now suffering increased taxation on necessaries of life. I desire my sons so expect the day when it will be their duty to resist the payment of this money, of which the other island lias had the lion's share of tho plunder.