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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3425, 3 February 1890, Page 2

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The Waikato Natives Loyalty

' Auckland, February 1, ® Lord Onslow was presented with a r loyal address.by the Waibato Natives. 8 On replying His Excellency said it 1 was a great pleasure to him to be the j first Governor to receive a loyal ad- ) dress from the Waikato Natives. He r promised tlie Queen should be in 0 'formed of tho part tho Maoris had j taken in the Jubiloe. The Yioe-regal 1 party afterwards visited Orakei at ! the invitation, of chief Paul. ! Tlie Sculling Match. | ■ 'Wellington, Saturday. < The Bculling niatah, Stevenson v. ) Hearn was postponed till Monday 1 owing to thoroughness of the weather, ; A great crowd assembled but were ' disappointed. ' Wesleyan Conference. Ciiristchukch, February 1. 1 At the Wesleyan Conference • to-da/, n memorial was received | from the Secretary of the Early Cljsing Association ;commendiiig the objects of the Association to tho members of the Conference. It was resolved to receive the momoria! and to express sympathy with the end aimed at by the Association. The President read a memorial from the Women's Christian , Temperance Union, asking the sympathy of the Conference in relation to theproposal •for an extension of the franchise to women. On the motion of the Eev. J.' Williams 'the memorial wae received, and the Conference, with scarcely a dissenting voice, expressed its cordial sympathy with the object ■ of the memorial, In the afternoon 1500 Sunday soholars, with two bands', assembled in Cathedral-squaro 1 and marched to Cranmer-square, where addresses wero given by the Revs Mr Lewis, Berry, and Watkins. ; Large Bush Fires,. I New Plymouth, February 2, ] Large bush fires are raging for a ' distance of nearly forty miles .through [ the bush, the distiict lying between ' New Plymouth and To Eoti. Now Plymouth is enveloped in smoke and ' a heavy south-westerly galeisblowing. ' Several settlers have been burnt out , near the Junction-road, and the town L of Inglewood is in danger. The ( Waiongona railway bridge caught fire lu.Ati.- ' i i /

but the railway, employes succeeded 1 .in tlie flames.. The 1 settlers. have suffered a heavy loss in n grass seed and are experiencing an anxious time,and if the'gale does not abate, soon the, damage by fire will j be most serious.. j Sudden Death- ' j Nelson, February 2, | During yesterday .afternoon the firebell rang, someone having set fire,: to the grass and trees at the Botanical Gardens, and; Captain Lightfoot, of , the lire aud city surveyor, hastened from home, running a con-.

siderablo distance, when, be jumjod into a cab; On reaching the scene itwas found lie had fainted, 'and after some efforts lie revived- Ho was driven to a doct'or'sbut pronounced to be dead from stoppage.pf the heart's action. Dnliis cemrade's learning this tbo iirebells were tolled and a gloom was thrown over the whole town,for the deceased was exceedingly Veil liked. : ,