TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 65, 15 February 1884, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC NEWS

[UNITED PBESS'iSBOCIATICN.] , ' At t ckxav3>, February 14. Jjb the inquest on the fire at Mount Edea Road, which broke put on ihe '• premises of Mr Edwin Joines, grocer, the jinry^ returned an open verdict. It Stated that the evidence of Mr and Mrs r - «Tone£ was unsatisfactprj, .^hatthe gopds m the shop were much nelow the value for which they were insured, ..and. con<lemned the lax supervision of . the insurance companies' in issuing- policies 'without proper inspection of the premises. . ■::.'• Gisbobne, February 14. r «' 'She isecond bore pf the Southern Cro»3 Oil ; Compkny is down over feet, no pipes being* necessary. A good 30 feet a day is sunk. A large supply of pipes arrived by the mail steamer for the firsfctae. - r v H>wera, February 14. Patohe, a native chief, and another, "have been committed for trial on a -charge of -forcible entry. They had a forge party, who pullod down the wharo <tif a nrttive woman and warned her, off *he reserve, m which she and they are tenants m common, holding under a Cro^n grant. The case is the outcome of a long quarrel between the natives and this woman, owing, it is said, to -, . they latter, having a European living 1 ' withter. t .-y ;. :: :) „'■"''■ Napier, February 14.. ■ •' ■ A propbsal lias 1 Wen made to send the steamer Triumph here when she is repaired tp,load ; vith frozen meat. '■ . . „ ■..«•■-.•■ " ' Wellington, Feb. 14. Watty> ■ chatge^l: with ! fraudulently obtaining money, hag been arrested. Bail was allowed, hinwelf m- £100 and jiwo sureties of £100 each. ' . ■■:'.■'., -I ■;..-■■ Napi*b, January 13: TUe meat fi*eeziug at Nelson Bros', •work* at Toinoana are now m foil operaffcioa. „ Lyttelton, January 14. Several letters were missed yesterday from the mail bag received at Christfrom {iytteltpn. To-day detective O'Cpnner arrested a boy named William Rose, employed ip Caff and V Office at Lyttelton, for stealing them. ; < : ■ •••.'; ■. The feoard of Governors of the Canterbuvy ; College h^ve decided to close ""." the public library on Sundays Motives .of economy are the cause. . ; : , OhRIBTCBURCH; Ftfernary 14v r A man named Thomas Clarkson was committed for trial at Aml>erley foi haying coramitied an indecent assault on one woman and a violent atwault on another, and for having completely wrecked the furniture of the bar and /other rooms m the local hotel. „, DuNEDtN, Februaiy 14. , ' The prosecution of Ihose persons whe were engaged m illegal trout fishing m Lake Wakatipu broke down on a technical point. The information charged defendants with fishing m a river known «8 Lake W.ikatipu. There was some '■ t«ri ; wearing indulged m, and the iliffk»fci < ate; l Major KetldellJ decided tc give tlws defendants the I 'benefit of the doubt. ; v : ! Mr H. S. Pish, M.H.8., having tele frraphed to the Minister of Public Works askiog the reason for the delaj

m accepting tenders for several public works m Otago, estimated to cost about £100,000, and suggesting that the department desired t6 hold over acceptance of these tenders until after the close^pfcthefpVesenl financial year when the votes would elapse, has receiyecj a reply that a decision will be made m a few days.