TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 149, 22 May 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIO-V.) Dunedin, May 20. The City Council last night agreed to purchase half-a-dozen gaa cooking stoves, with the view of inducing the public to use them for cooking and heating purposes. At the Police Court, to-day, a publican was charged with failing to admit a constable ■without unnecessary delay. Mr Carew dismissed the case, holding that the Act lequires that a constable must, intimate by sufficient words that he demands to enter for the purpose of preventing or detecting a violation of the provisions of the Act.

Oamahcj, May 20. It is intended to foi'm a Political Reform Association m Oamavn. At a meeting of the Blue Ribbon Avtny, held last night, a number" of resolutions bearing on the unsatisfactory state of affairs existing m Oamaru relative to sly-grog shops were passed, and were ordered to be forwarded to the Minister of Juatice. Nelson, May 20. I A man named James Thomson, a draughtsman m the Surrey Office, Nelson, died suddenly yesterday evening from heart disease. Auckland, May 20. Sir G. Grey returned to Auckland yesterday, and proceeds to Kawau I to-day m company with Mr Chamber- | lain, ex mayor of Birmingham. I The several lodges of the Friendly Societies m Auckland have received ! intimation from the Government that I their request for payment to seero taries for filling m annual forms reI lating to sickues^ expenses, and caids of membership, has been granted. j Mr J. B. Adnam, who with his I family was to have left to-night by i the s.s. Waihora for Sydney, died suddenly of tetanus. The deceased gentleman occupied a responsible position'in the firm of Owen and Graham, and came from Sydney, where his friends reside. Timabu, May 20. A very narrow escape from drowning occurred m the roadstead to-day, about noon. Four men, of the barque Auriga, lying m the roadstead, put off from the breakwater, and after going some distance they attempted to hoist a sail, but the halyards gave way. One of the men then climbed the mast, and the boat capsized, consequently rolling over and over several tinn'S. Eventually all four men were picked up by a boat from the schooner Spray, two of the seamen being m a very exhausted condition. All of them now, however are doing well.