TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 166, 19 June 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

[ NTERPROViNCIAL.

(UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.)"! Timaru, June 17. An alarm of fire wis given this after* noon, when a quantity of coals iv Allen'p Belford Flour Mill was found burning. The fire was extinguished without doing anydamage. to .the milt or its contents. Sailed,— Auriga, for the United Kingdom, with a cargo of grain. % She makes the fourteenth direst ship a f ready despatched from Timara for the United Kingdom this season. ; : Gisbdrnb, June^l7; - 'The total quantity- of wool exported from Cook County during tin aeasoa just closed was 3625 bales. Last year the quantity; w« 2926, thus showing an increase ot 699; bales. | Mr Mo Donald, M.H.R. for^he Bast Coast Electoral District, has addressed large meetings at Wairoa and Ormond, receiving a vote of thanks and confi Jence at each place.. . = : r . Auckland, June 17Efforts are being made to resuscitate the Trades and Labor Council. The legatees under Mr Uostley's 'bluest had a meeting, to-day. •; The mayor presided. Four "of th'e institu« tions concerned were not repressnted. r Mo "Bitigfacfory eonclnaioS-was -ivfi Ved at. The legatees-meet the exacators on Monday. ■- The remain^of-Mr Firth, the tourist, who was. drowned at Kotoraai- wera ia* terred to«day m the Anglican cemetery. The JRev. ; W..S. Tebbs\ of St. Matthew's, officiated. .._;. , -, • ..■■ :..•■.■-.--,- --: : ■? e ? :c y Smitli,* watch maker, .Doisoned himjielf last night m the Old Hqusa. at Home Hotel, taking, .cfanide of poiassium. He was lately from Marlborough, an(J, had, b?en drinking, ,and was,.embar-nissed-j Dr. Hqoper.tried the st'oanch,p^o»p, but fruitlessly,' jSjnith "dying /in twenty riainutes !'".', .. \ , /.'.