TELEGRAPHIC. INTERPROVINCIAL.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 251, 25 September 1883, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

INTERPROVINCIAL.

. (FSB UNITED PHESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, September 22. There has been another case of measles reported amon? the Doric's passengers at the quaraotine station . The other case is progressing favourably, £10,000 has been \ aid by Government to the Bay of Islands natives for,, blocks of land. Some of the natives have now paid storekeepers' accounts given up as hopeless. Another case of measles has occurred among; the .Doric's passengers at the quarantine station. The other cases are reported to be progressing favorably. A young man named Thomas McDonald rescued a woman named G-oodion arid child from drowning at the harbor reclamations. ; September 24. ; At the District Court to-day, tbie owner of the monkey that attacked the child at Mechanics Bay, was cast ih damages, £25 ; costg, £8 193. , ; Greymouth, September 23. ; There was heavy rain all Saturday and Sunday night. The "* er is m fresh.; Oamaru, September 23. At the Rurow races held on Thursday Magician won the principal event, Canary and Eugene also starting. Previous to the settling up the owner of Canary lodged a protest against* .the stakes being paid over to Magician on the grounds that there" was a confederacy between the Owner of the latter horse and the.owner of Eugene. The stewards will decide at a fall. meeting, ;, ■ Dunbdin, September 23., At the City Court, Thomas Ireland, for assaulting Albert Cohen, reporter of the Star, was finel 40 > and costs £3 6b, or seven days. The affair aros • out of a paragraph recently inserted re the horsewhipping case, but all evidence as to this was excluded by the Bench. , ; V The police have been inspecting butchers' shops under the Adulteration of Food Act, and devoted particular attention to sausages, which m some cases 1 have been found to contajn material other than beef and muttoti. Proceedings will be taken. . " ■ . . v ■j) \ ' Tnvkkoargull,' September 23. j It was resolved; ' at ; ,the' ISoaJblat^d Frozen Meat Company's meeting on Saturday to increase the capital frpin £10,000 to £20,000, m 4000 shares' £f £5, It was also decided that 1000 shares only be offered for application at present, those applied for- before the 31j3t October to be issued, at par, after that date at a premium to be fixed by the Directors. This action has been taken m consequence of the demand for shares, and the increased interest m the Company's operations.