TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 163, 15 June 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

I NTERPROVIMCIAL.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Chuistchurch, Juns 14. Humphreys, who was knookfvl down by a runaway horse on Tuesdiv, is stilL unconscious and m a critical state. The Times this morning 1 sa/s the Collector ot Customs, accompanied by a leading surveyor, has been making seizures of fancy goota at certain premises m Christchnrch ,md Lyfcteltoa. This action was taken m c mspquenca of apparently fraudulent invoices being tendered to the Customs authorities. We understand, on enquiry, that the consignees are m no way imp'icatei and are enoxerated from any suspicion of connivance. The alleged fraud 'ies at the door of a firm outside the colony. Unfortunately under the provision? of the Act the firm m question cannot be proceeded against at law, and will only suffer the loss of their goods. Wellington, June 14. As a meeting of the Philosophical Society, Mr A , McKay's report on the geological survey ot the East Coast of the North. Island was read. He described the geological survey ot a series of low hills and gullies about 14 miles from Masterfcon, and showed a model indicating a weil-defined crater; which he had no doubt was the low neck of an extinct volcano He inferred from adjacent strata that the volcano was not ancient m a geological sense, though he offered no comparative data a3 to the period of its activity. Arrived— Barque Cumbria, from London. Passenger — MrJnll. Uneventful passage ; 1?2 days. Auckland, June 13. At a meeting of the Auckland Permanent Co-operative Building Society, the report showed the amount lent on mortgage during the year was £37,780; ~ receipts, £62,668, being a falling off J of deposits received and loans recteemad on last year to the extent of £21,000. The profit on the year's operation was 9 per cent. Pascoe, a butcher, was fined £5 and costs for a breach of the Pubic Health, Act by having beef on his premises unfit for human for> ?.