TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 133, 12 May 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(UNITED PB ESS ASSOCIATION.) Dunediu, May 11. j At the Police Court yesterday Cornelius John was committed for trial for forgery, by having altered a cheque for £7 17s to £87 17s. The allegation was that, being' partner with one Evans, Johns, after Evans had signed the cheque, altered it as stated. . A man named Thompson has been arrested here on a warrant from Wellington for larceny as a baillee. He was travelling to Melbourne under the name of Brown. The Harbo/ Board yesterday refused to take cognisance of a resolution recently arrived at by the committee of the Chamber of Commerce recommending a total change m the constitution of the Board. They duly forwarded a reply that they would be happy to consider any suggestion on thVsribject made by the Chamber as a whole. The committee's recommendation was that the Harbor Board should consist; of appointed skilled men, paid for their services. . The Harbor Board to-day Bgreed to accept the resignation of Captain Thompson, the harbormaster, and to place on record its recognition of his valuable and lengthy seivice, to ask him to remain m the service three months after his successor is appointed to instal him into his duties, and to present him on leaving with a bonus of £300, The steamer Fenstanton saied yesterday with a fu'l cargo of wool and grain and 7840 sheep, and fourjbags of duck*. There are 22 different shippers of meat, which was all frozen by coal Refrigerating Companies. The average weight per carcase is 67^1bs, with 200 carcases. The new experiment has been tried of sending home only the prime parts, namely, the saddles and legs. It Js likely four more steamers will be despatched from here during the year with frozen meat. Timaru, May 11. Mr P. N. Robinson, ot Christen urch, is winner of the Champion Cup at the .South Canterbury Amateur Athletic Club Sports this year and having now won it for three consecutive year he becomes the owner of it. The cup is of the value of 80 guineas, Nelson, May 11. Mr L. Noble, second officer of the Hawera writes to the Mail, contradicting the accuracy of the telegram referring to the steamer going ashore at Wai tar a. Tha Champion Copper Lode Com.* pany's shares on which 7s 6d has been paid, hive been sold at £2. The Onehunga Ironworks Company applied to the Waste Lands Board for an extension of lease of the iron sand on tbeManakau Beach from twenty-one sixty years, as the works will cost from £80,000 to £LOO,OOO. The Board agreed to recommend that the right of the renewal or extention of lease be granted, on such terms as may be nrranged between the Government and the promoters of the iudnsfcry. Thames, May 11. A dangerous fire occurred/this afternoon m Short-land, at Charles Butter* "Vforsh's boarding-house, connecTetrwitbH the Warwich Arms m Pdllen«»Btraet. The Shortland Fire Brigade were most promptly oh the spot, and succeeded m overcoming it before spreading to the adjacent premises. Greymouth, May 11. Twent/-four Chinamen were arrested last night for playing Fan i an, and will be brought up this afternoon. The keenest possible interest is being taken m the Inangahua election here. New Plymouth, May 11. i Leedom, whilst working &t his brew- | cry at Waitara, fell into a vat of boiling Hauid, and was fearfully scalded about the shoulders. An enquiry was made on board the Hawea on Wednesday morning on that vessel going ashore at Waitara. Leidisa Noble, second mate, m his evidence said : I called the Captain a quarter of an hour before the vessel struck. He asked me if we had opened out the Sugar Loaves. I told him I could nob S?e them. I thought we were two miles from land when the vessel struck^