TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 104, 10 April 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

INTERPROVINCIAL . *. (united' press association.) Nelson, April 9. A young man named Frank Hodgson, against whom a warrant was issued m October last on a charge of embezzling £500 from the National Bank m JJBBI, has been 3 arrested and was charged befora the ma»i^trate this morning and remanded* He evaded the police for a lon£ time, but was eventually captured m the neighborhood of Peloras Bound. Christohurch, April 9. This morning three cottages were burnt at Philip3town, two of four rooms and one of two rooms, the latter being empty. They were insured m the South British" for £125, the unoccupied one tor £200 m the Union. Kinsheer's furniture was insured, but was saved. The fire is supposed to have been from catching a newspaper on a chair m front. The New Zealand Shipping Com"* pany's s.s. British King, the first of a direct line of steamers to England, sailed early yesterday morning, with 112 passengers and a full cargo, including 6198 carcases of frozen mutton, 7478 sacks of wheat, 3036 bales of wool and skins. Auckland, April 9. Benjamin Maclean, an old colonise, and late Provincial Property Tax Commissioner, died on Saturday. The Governor opens the Art Society's Exhibition on Wednesday! A citizens' ball is being arranged for. At the Resident Magistrate's ■ Court on Saturday a woman named Elizabeth Johnston was committed for trial (or robbing Gporge Mitchell of LI I m a house of ill- fame on 80th March. At the annual meeting of the Canterbury Linseed Company the report stated that three scutching machines were to arrive directly. Sites for the company's works had been secure*, with a frontage to the railway at Hills* borough, Amount of capital paid up, L 835 ; expenditure, L 570. InVEROARGHjL, April 9. f\. cowshed and stables on the farm of E. Andrews, near Wintoa,were burned down on Saturday morning. The house, harness, and a quantity of grain were destroyed. The estimated total loss is over LSOO, and there wa3 no insurance. Ib is rumored that the Government school residence at Wreig's Busb was destroyed by. fire yesterday, the schoolmaster being from home. As there was no insurance, he lost LIOO on books, and L4O on other effects. The Govern • ment had insured the build<ngs. Thames, April .9. A Druids' Lodge of over 40 mem be -8 was opened. here last week with every success by Bro. Walter Bishop, district president for the North. Island. Another lodge is to be opened by him at Tauranga on Tuesday ni^ht. . Dunedin, April 9. On Saturday an unsuccessful attempt was made to launch the : steamer Port Jackson, which has been built here by Messrs Sparrow and Company for the Port Jackson (Sydney) Shipping Company. Another attempt will be made on Tuesday. The Salvation Army seem to be makin* progress. Yesterday afternoon, after the open-air meeting m the Octagon, a procession ot twelve or fifteen persons, including some men and one woman, fell m, and marched to the barracks, singing; a hymn by the way. Several people have had the army badge on their breasts for some days. The larrikins made the * indoor meetings very rowdy, but now a sergeant and" constable keep orde/.