TELGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 129, 30 April 1884, Page 2

TELGRAMS.

'U^lt^D I'KKSS ASSOCIATION. ) Auckland, April 28. j A charge of broaching cargo baa been preferred by Oaptiin G-lazebrook, master of the barque Alastor, against ten seamen belonging to that vessel. The information is to be heard at the Police Court on Wednesday next. It is alleged that the cargo was first broached on the 7th February, oue month after the Alaslor lefi London, when there were stolen -19 bottle* of stout and two cases containing eight dozen tins of preserved mifk. One -of the-men,-it-appeals sold some of the latter to a passenger and by this means Captain Glaze' »rook discovered the pilfering carried on. The first .Diocesan Synod ever held m Auckland m connection with the .Roman Catholic Church will be opened on Thursday next, m St. Patrick's Cathedral. The occasion will include the celebration of pontifical high mass. At the close of the mass the the laity will withdraw, and a synod : will l«e constituted by the clergy alone, from all parts of the diocese. The matter.-* for consideration are chiefly connec: ted with theaclmiuistration of the diocese. On Sunday afternoon next the foundation stone of St. . Patrick's Cathedral will be laid with a Incoming ceremonial by. the diocesan. ;• ; During next week Bishop Luck leaves on a visit 'to Rome. ■ A man named Robert Dolloch, aged 40, was "working m a scoria pit at Mangarei to-day, loading a cart, when 100 tons of stuff came down, completely burying him. Ie took seven men an houi\and a quarter to. uncover the lifeless body. A man working with him was also injured on the chest. Dolloch was a single man. A fire occurred at 1 o'clock this morning m a block of wooden shops m Vic-toria-street west. It destroyed three and : damaged others. The shops burned were occupied by Q-add, i fruiterer ; Carr, bootmaker ;>and Kirkman, milliner. A fresh outbreak occurred at 5 o'clock this morning; Senior Branchman Havley and Branchmen Moore and Heaps took a hose upon a. verandah to play upon the flames when the verandah suddenly gave way, and fell heavily to the pavement be Meath, Harley injured internally, and suffered severe pain. Moore was injured about the hip and shoulder, and Heap* broke his ancle. The Western Springs Estate was offered at auction to-day. The Town Clerk bid £9500, but the property was withdrawn at £10,000, some £12,000 to 13,000 being demanded. The prevalent fever _is attributed by medical men to impeifeot drainage and dry weather. Gisborhf, April 28. The New Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Gompahy are building a new warehouse here which is to cost £5500. . -Timaru, April JJß. Mark Christy, alias Walter Thonip.son, was committed for trial to-dayfor uttering a forged cheque for £49. Frederick Murray was sentenced to one j month's imprisonment, with hard labor, for indecent exposure before .a child of 10 years of age CHRisTCHURCS, April 28. .- At a ., meeting of iho Canterbury College Board of Governors, a resolii tion was unanimously passed on the motion of the Primate, which was seconded by Mr Malet, expressive of regret at the loss sustained by the college by the decease of the chancellor, the late Mr Tancred. The Hon. W. Rolleston goes to-mor-row, via Hanmer Plains and Awatere, to Blenheim, and thence to Wbllingtou. Mr. Alfred Sauudew met some of his friends at the Goad Templar Hall, Ratigiora, this mornings ',i\hd, after a long discua.vion, he arrived at the decision not' to contest the Kaiapoi election with Mr Richardson. At the Supreme Court to-day, a case m which A. and D. Duncan, implement makers, sued Booth and McDonald, rivals m- trade, for;£1000; for libel, con tamed m a protest at the last agncuj-. tural and pastoral show. The libel alleged that plaintiffs were m collusion with one of Che judges. The case was partly heard to-day, but it came to a sudden termination, the defendants consenting to a judgment for £40 and costs, amounting to £75. At the Police Court to-day, a woman who was accused of drunkenness pleaded that she. -was not xlrunk, but had gone on to the Salvation Army ground at Sydenham. She then lifted up her arm, and, m a loud and hysterical voice, called out, " Ton have given up the world to the Devil and his angels; give God the. Glory." She repeated these and similar expressions, •■ and gesticulated, and r&ved m a wild manner. Two policemen endeavored to remove her from the dock, but she clung- to it so tenaciously "that the assistance of a third constable was necessary to remove her. The Bench said that the accused's conduct was perhaps caused by a mixture of drink and Salvation Army, and they fined lier m a small amount.