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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2562, 1 April 1887, Page 2

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(united press 'association.) ' • • March 81. • The .compensation claim, Barr v Minister of Public Works, £2250, set down for hearing, has been settled byl the payment of £6OO. '.'The criminal calendar is light. The prisoners include one indicted for rape, one for embezzlement of . county funds, and 14 for embezzlement of railway funds.. .' - March 31. A five-roomed cottage belonging to Morris Flynn, and occupied by a man named Braham, was burned down last night from" Some cause unknown.:: There will be an enquiry. There is an insurance of £l5O on , the building in the National office, and one of 1200 on the furniture in the North' British. ;' M Wanganui, March 81. . . The: of small ruiis leases by the Cfowli Lands Department to-day was very successful, The visa coast ruijs brought as high as.BJd,per, acre, and the Mamigakarehi leases Is lid, • Is, and 6d (upset)- Three of' the latter were unsold, and one of the former. Auckland, March 81.

At the meeting of the Chamber of Commerce yesterday afternoon, a reso*. lution was carried to recommend the Mayor to call'a public pieetingto W-

sitter tlie proposals pf Sir Julius Vogel with regard, to a' Maratime and Intercolonial Exhibition;' ■ The French Admiral 'has received orders to return at once with the warship Duquesne to Tahiti, and leaves on Saturday. ' '.'ll'. New Plymouth, March 81.

Frederick Elliott, a letter.-carrier at the" Post' Office,.• died ' suddenly. '; this, morning. He was formerly a,vSer-. geantin.thesoth Regiment, and had .B.een:;. letter.carrier' - ten-- --years.He was awakened this mbrning.'about' 7,. when he said lie did riot feel well, and on being lifted up he quietly expired, ■ As blood was found on his pillow it is thought he had broken a bloodvessel.