TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 180, 6 July 1883, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

(.UNITED PBESS .ASSOCIATION. Auckland, July 4. ~^lhe City Council have finally re> sowed on a loan of £200,000 for water i*-~Bfipply extension, drainage, and street formation, the money to be allocated m the Bill to the various wards. The de« cision is subject to a poll. ■ Chhistchuroh, July 4. ffTwo email Companies, the Pioneer nd Eohinoor, proposing to work the diamond field at Alford Forest, should the specimens sent Home prove to be genuine, have been registered. An official inquiry by the Orphanage Committee has proved that the rumor that the girls were overworked was unfounded, Dunedin, July 4. At the Land Board to-day tenders were opened for land under the per pet* ■ual leasing system. Over twenty sections were offered, and. seven sections only were tendered for. In one case there were four tenderers. The upset was 2s, and m one case 3s was obtained. The Board had summoned certain holders of deferred payment land < at Silver Peak, to show whether they were properly carrying oat the conditions, but none attended and consideration was deferred. The Dnnedin Presbytery to-day, sanctioned the use of instrumental music m St. Andrew's Church. One of the opposition among 1 the congregation called the proposed instrument a screech- j mrL ■>-*-' At the Supreme Court to-day, Joseph Louth, railway stationmaster at Tapanuij was found guilty of embezzlement, with a recommendation to mercy. There are other indictments against- him, and sentence was deferred.