NAPIER, Tuesday.

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NAPIER, Tuesday.

NAPIER, The Resident Magistrate decided today that the. vrorda jo, the JicensiDg Acfc

Tniportiu^^aßculmo'' 1 gentler apply to females, and convicted two Maori women • charged with sly grog-selling, >•, News has been received thnfc part of Wilding and Bull's saw-mills at Waitjfp.ukuran were burned down this after noon. All the planing machinciy and 40,000 feet of timber were destioyed. The insurances are not known A proposition made by the Hon. j Matthew Holmes, Mr. .). B. Bcid, and " 6t'her Lincoln breeders now in Napier attending the ram fair, that a colonial , exhibition of Lincoln rains and cues 'should be held in Wellington about October next, for a sweepstake of £1000, is likely to be warmly taken up by the leading breeders in both islands The conditions are that no official dye, fee housed, or clothed sheep shall I>p allowed to compete, but hay or roots may be allowed. The proposal, it is believed, '«wUI meet with gcneial approval as a test of sheep on then best merits "'-particularly as the vaiious pastoral > -Societies of the colony will ho asked to appoint the judges. ' The exhibition may likely extend to other desciiptions of stock besides Lweolns ; in fact, theie is a probability of a giand cential t,how.