TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 148, 21 May 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, May 16. Sir George Grey addresses his City East constituents m a few days, and he may also deliver an address at the Thames, He intends going back to Grisborne before the opening of Parliament. The damage resulting from the Pukekoke railway accident is estimated at £1000. Nine trucks more or less, were damaged. A derrick is being erected to hoist the locomotive engine out of the swamp. Dunedih", May 19. On dit that several important banking changes will lake place here shortly. A threshing mill, the property ot Mr Win. Robins Tuupoka Mouth, was totally destroyed by fire about 5 o'clock on Sunday morning. The mill was valued at £300, and was insured for £200. Two hundred and thirteen hags and a portion of a stack of wheat wece also destroyed. Incendiarism is suspected. At the Police Court to-day, Albert Edward Mower was charged with altering a £1 Union Bank note to £5. The police offered Jno evidence, as the prisoner could not be identified hs the man who uttered the note He was discharged. Ross Mtiy 19. A public meeting was held here on Saturday night to consider the best steps toward the erection of a small battery up at the newly- discovered quartz reefs at Cedar Creek. The Way or was m the chair, and resolutions were carried unanimously, giving effect to the foregoing. The business men have agreed to subscribe, and the machine is to be erected at once. Christchurch, May 19. An unoccupied boardinghou»-e of twenty-two rooms, next to the Gladstone Hotel, Peterloo. street, was destroyed by fire early this morninff. The disaster was evidently the work of sin incendiary. The insurance was £700 m the Union Company. The City Council will prosecute the proprietors of the Freethought Hall for using the hall as a place of entertainment without having a license. It appears that the proprietors ret used to take out a license.