TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 105, 11 April 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

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(UNIIBD PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Nelson, April 10. Qn Sunday morning, some six boys were playing with gunpowder, when a lad named Wright threw down a lighted match, which fell into a tin containing, ab^ut half a pound of the explosive. The result was that the tin was blown to pieces, and a boy named Holland, who held it, Ind his thumb an<* the p .lm of his right hand shattered, while Wright escaped with his hair and eyebrows burnt off. DcrNEDitf, April 10. Mr R. Stout will deliver a public address m criticism of Major Atkinson's ; scheme this -week, probably on Thursday j and Mr Fish, M.H.R., -will give i his speech, on the same subject probably next Monday evening. I The new endless wire rope tramway to Morningfcon is working capitally, and is doing a lar»»e trade. It is a double line, and the cars travel at the rate of seven miles an hour. Christohurch, April 10. An order compelling a father to send his son to school was taken but to-day m the Resident Magistrate's Court by the St. Albans School Uommittee. The charge of desertion against an apprentice of the ship Dutnbartonshiie was dismissed at Lyttelton because the ship had sailed, the captain taking the boy's indentures, and the local agents had no power. At the presentation ot the portrait and address to Mr "W. Norman by, at the Agricultural and Pastoral Association, the president said the time had arrived for the appointment of a Minister ot Agriculture. Napieb, April 10. At the Synod to-day, a great manymatters were dealt with, but noue of great interest. The opponents of the Incorporation Bill, introduced into Parliament last session, secured a side hit at the commission which prepared the Bill, by passing a motion that Bills introduced into Parliament as by the authority of the t'ynpd, shall first be submitted m draft form to the Synod. Resolutions congratulating the new Archbishop of Canterbury, and condoling with the family of the late Archbishop, were carried unanimously. Archdeacon Stock introduced a Bill defining communications for church governing purposes to mean any man over 21 who has subscribed a declaration m the church-varden's book. A. Select Committee was appointed to define the meaning of "licensed clergy," and to consider the desirability of establishing a Church newspaper to take the place of ! various diocesan periodicals now issued. The debate on Archdeacon Stock's motion for the establishment of a general pension land fund for the clergy was interrupted by the afternoon ad-* journment. The cou:t of inquiry into the acci» dent to the Johann Adolph was held to«day. The court held no one to blame, the accident occurring through want of proper power, m the steamstug emplojei. Inyercargii.li, April 10. Mr C. Andrews, of Winton, on Saturday lost by fire his sheds, horse, harness, grain, ar:d plant, to the value of £400, uninsured.