Referring to Mr W. C. Edwards, who died at Hastings of typhoid fever, the Standard says :-Mr Edwards was exceedingly popular with all who knew him. He was a Jemune He was 44 y^ars of age, and leaves a daughter to mourn his loss. The deceased was one of the best known and most popular sports in New Zealand. Born in Victoria he erne to this colony oarlv in the seventies For some time he "wan employed as a rider in the South Island. He came to Hawke's Bay over twenty years #°V lB 87, he won the Hawke's Bay Handicap on Maori Weed. He was for I time employed by Mr J»mes Lyon, for whom he rode The Moor, Tamati, Fashion, and Otopai. He was also employed by Mr Jam. s Wa Kir' A °J^ nt J, 883 h«Wd the | stable of Captain Russell, for whom he hrs trained ever since.
At the Magistrate's Court to-day the fol lowing oivil oases were dealt with : F, Mo«. Gregory B. Cox. olaim 15sid, judgment for amount with costs 9a ; J. J. Box v. A. T. Milgrew olaim .£3 10s, judgment for amount and costs £2 9s.
A Wellington telegram states that an Order-in Council has been issued prohibit* ing the export of rock oysters from New Zealand.
The excursionists, who left here far Faeroa yesterday morning by rail for the purpose of attending the Miners' Union sports at Paeroa, arrived here about 7.30 oMock last evening. A report of the demonstration at Paeroa appears in another column.
