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Waikato Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 2935, 7 May 1891, Page 2

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(BV TKt EOUAI'II. -PKKSS ASS IOUTI-IN.) VV I'LLINGTOV. Tj ..<l. Xltfllt. Tub local agents for tho S.S. \luniri Ihvu received tho following cablegram fr>.m Messrs Shaw, Sivilleand Albion Comuany, London S.S. Mmiiri left T 'oeiilfj on 2nd May. The vessel struck bottom on an unmarked shoal off tho A'bnahas. [lev frozen meat cargo has been jsttis iued truii No 1 hold, and the balance of her frozen meat i-< in good condition. At tho Police Court to-ilay, for being illegally 011 premises, a Justice of the Peace sentenced a min to twelve months' imprison, inent with hard labour. Tho ministerial decision in reference to the officers of the I'oblic Trust Department was not arrived at to-day as was expected. The interests involved are so important, it was considered necessary to have eithera full meeting of the Cabinet before deciding, or the fullest possible representati >n of the views of the absent members. Neither of those can be obtained till towards the end of the week. The remains of the late Mr \V N. Blair, Kngincer-in-Clnef, who died on Tue<day night, were escorted to the steamer Takapuna this afternoon by a cortege ol some hundreds on foot and a number of carriages. The pall-bearers were His Honor Mr Justice Deuniston, Sir Robert Stout, Hon. J. M. Larnach. Messrs J, H. Cocks, W. M. Hannay, (!. S. Cooper, J. A. Macarthur, and Dr. Mucgregor. The Ministry were represented by the Hons. Ballance and Buckley. On reaching the wharf tho collin was taken from the hearso and carried down to the vessel's side, where a boat had been lowered. In this the coffin was placed, covered with the Union Jack and lashed to the thwart-. The davits were then swungs inwards and the boat hoisted on dock, the cofhn being covered with numerous wreaths. The Government are preparing a Bill extending the privileges of the present Act to enable all old soldiers, whose claims are favourably reported on by the Commission, to participate in tho grants of land. The census returns of tho shipping taken at the Wellington wharves show 1952, making the grand total of the population of the city 32,937. The Minister of Justice, replying to a protest from Reefton against dispensing with the services of Mr Kennedy, R.M., Hfcates that the step is only part of a larger re-arrangement, by which the Department will seouro greater economy than at present with uo less efficiency.