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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3477, 5 April 1890, Page 2

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Dunedin, April 8. The Underwriters' Association having declined to contribute toward the support of the Fire. Brigade, the City Opancil will Consider the" wh,ole question, and also the etfeotof doing: without a brigade. ' ■ '-. At the City Police Court, Thos. Bamott was committed for trial for the attempted murder of William Woods.- ;

Auckland, April 8. . 'A. number of French gendarmes arrived by tlje steamer Tekapo from Sydney, and aro en route from Marseilles to Tahiti, where they are to render military .service. The nrice of sharps was advanced to-day tg £i {fs per ton, ■ The representatives of tbo Auckland bowling teams left' to-day by too Wanata for Wellington for the bowling tournament, Christcuuroii, April L Murray, the Maori who escaped from gaolsome time ago, and created' muoh excitement at the time, died in Lytteljou gaol thii morning. The Tainui took ten boxes of gold, of tho value of £26,282. Her mail includes 10,862 letters. T(je ljaifryparly meeting of the Pant'ofb'ury Tramway Company was h, eld last liigh't. The report showed nI?S8/ofi8*Q o» tip bait yetr eudiUß

"December 81, There has been no loss eince.

,;. : :;:, ,;■•; Auckland, Thursday. A paseiof influenza has appoared at Marsderi Point, Whangarei. . ' y CuBisTOHUBOn, April 8. At a meeting of the Christchuroh Operative Bootmakere' Sooiety, it was resolved that the Society accord unanimous support to and pledge themselves to shop only in the hours dictated by the Early Closing Association.

IntheoaseHayv. the Queen, a claim of £IOO for a valuable # dog starved to death at the Quanntine Station, Eipa Island, Mr Beetham, R.M., to-day gave judgment for £47 5s and costs. ' ,

Dunedin, April 8.: Tho Agricultural and Pastoral Association's ram and ewe fair was held to-day at Burnside. There was a fair attendance of buyers, arid it was on the whole successful!, nearly all thestook finding purchasers except Southdowns, which;were .almost unsaleable, Tho prices ranged from half-a-guinea to 10 guineas for rams,' Wesipobt, April 3, Last month the quantity of'coal exported from this port" was 0569 tons, the highest on record,