TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 44, 19 January 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIO V.) Gisbobne, January 17. The New Zealand Native Land Settlement Company had a very successful sale to-day of a large numbar of suburban sections just across the river. The average price was more than double the upset price, and ranged from £108 to £26. The total amount realised at ihe sale was L 4957. Mr Poynter, a Tasinanjan settler, formerly of tins district, \yas the largest buyer. Some rural laud at Matawhero sold at from I^lo to L 32 an acre, the total amount received being L531.J The Cook, County Qounoil and the Gisborne Borough Council have agreed to a conference as to altering the constitution of the Harbor Board to represent the country districts. The board now consists only of Rorough Council members, ; CHMSToauRCH, January 17. Viscount Berehaven, now Earl of Bantry, is m Canterbury, and has bought land at Barrys Bay, .Banks Peninsula, where he proposes to build a cottage and {reside some time while repqvering from the effects of injuries received qn th,e huntjng fy^d. The death of his father may, however, pos sibly change his plans. Nbw Plymouth, January 17. j Bishop Redwood left here for Wellfugton by this morning's train. !SiWER a. January 17. The aeod case, Bucfiapan y) Lafrd, occupied the Court till 11 o clock last night, when the evidence was ooinpleted. Judgment was reserved; Gretmouth, January 17. The sea has gone down, but the weather is still unsettled. TfMARU, January 17. The I)istrj[ct grand Lqiigp of freemasons, E.C., visited Oamaiu to-day, pn t }\e occasion of the installation ot the and the officers for the year, 4bou& si^ty members of the craft came down from Qljrjistchi].vcli, and there was a large gathering of Masons from the district. Mr J* 1 , W. Wilson was installed W.M., D.D.G.M. B,rp. Thompson performing the oeremony, Jn the evening the visitors were entertained at a bauq^et, Oamaru, January 17. The heaviest hail storm that has been known m this took place today. The hail was largo enough to break a skylight, the glass of greenhouses/&c, and occasioned a good deal of damage m this way. The. crops, however, are not far enough advanced to hay^ suffered injury- from the hailj save m one or two exceptional jnfetances,