TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 52, 30 January 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.

■ (PBB • XTNITSd' PBBSS ASSOCIATION.) v/ ••c =■ U AuciLANi), January 29. •The Temperance and Eight-hour Demonstration, m the Domain, yesterday, attracted crowds of visitors. A social gathering of the United Temperance Society was held at the Theatre Royal. Sir William Fox delivered an address, and exhorted the ratepayers present to unite and put on men on the Licensing Committee at the forthcoming elections sound on the teetotal ticket,. so as to secure not merely the regulation but the-abolition of the liquor traffic. A vote of *haiiks l was accorded.. ; ' . New Plymouth, January 29. Last evening a tesiimonial and purse of sovereigns . was present pd to;.ArchdeacohGovett, who, after 3^ years service m tlje church here,* goes Home l on a tour of health. , . ; . The Mayoi has called a public meeting for to-night for the purpose of discussing the.question of the speedy commencement of the trunk line of railway to< Auckland and Ihe appdiritmerit of a committee to watch the interests of Taranaki. - - , , „ , Well.jngton, January 29. At. .«■, ;meeting of the Wellington Woollen^Manufactiin'ng : Couipdny ' the' following, gentlememwere elected direct ton^—Sir/iW. litzherbert, Messrs R: Cleland,,.J fii McKelvie. J. Dransfield, T; K^McPoftaldj James; Snjith. ' . The~Gear lieat Freezing Company' at the i ajwiuafcmeetiiig toduy, declared a dividend of 12^ per cent^. r . - - c. 1 ; < Blenheim, This Day. At the inquiry ra u the Rankin and Ackioydlfirßj «h» jury returned » Verdict that the fire ,ougHifrtedjin the: sbow-J'oOm, but how i pr", \j , what ; flteftta : there is no evi^leiwe^abow. j, . ■;. ..-.:. I