TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 168, 13 June 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PUESS ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, June 11. Mi: Hitchensr, of blood restorer ■notoriety, has withdrawn his 'statement^; reflecting on L. D. Nathan arid Company,.' and his creditors accepted a composition of 7s 6d m the &. Pheasants still exu*t m the King Country m abundance: Petitions m favor of the maintenance of tho existing Education Act have been sent from. Auckland to Wellington, embracing 6153 signatures. A. number of unemployed, about 50, principally Southern 'arid' Australian arrivals, applied to tho Mayor today. He asked them to furnish a list of names, trades, and where last employed, for the consideration of the council. The animal report of the Building and Permanent Investment Society shows the yearly receipts, £78,000 : not profit, £7000; dividend, 8 per cenl-; bonus, 2|. In the City East the Licensing Committee have cancelled the license of another hotel. In the case of John Adams, licensee of (he Swan Hotel, charged with permitting the came of "cut cards" m his house, the case was dismissed. June 12. An im mouse number of potty larcenies have been reported recently. A man named Dfiwson was a muted last nisrht for brutality He had his son of fifteen years of age bound by ropes to the coiling and was ..flogging him with another rope. Tho boy, who was fearfully used, was taken to the police station for protection. The Waikato "Farmers' Co-operative Association, have opened butchei'V shops tor the sale, of their moat m Auckland, and are making extensive arrangements to avoid middlemen's profit respecting all produce. CiiursxcirimcH, Juno 11. A four-roomed cottage occupied by Thomas Osborne, jun., Oxford, was destroyed by fire at 3 a.m. yesterday under suspicious circumstances. Though no one- was- supposed to be m the cottage at the time, footsteps \rere heard by neighbors just before the fire broke out, and boxes of clothes were found outside,, having

evidently been removed before the fire. A deputation from the unemployed waited on the Mayor this morning, and liis Worship saw Mr Marsh, the L'minigr.ition Agent, who sent an urgent telegram to the Government requesting them to instruct the authorities at Addington to provideemployment for those out of woik. June 12. A seam of coal 1 2 feet thick has l/een traced m the Grey district, near Blackball Creek for 'half a mile. Some excellent specimens of copper are being brought from the Malvern district. DuxKDnr,, Jjjne 11. A meeting of the creditors of W. and G. Turnbull was held to-day. j The Assignee s:tid he did not think i the securities "would realise, anything like the amount (£88,000) they were valued at by the bankrupts, and the bond warrants held by th<? Bank of New Zealand wore valued by the bank-,at £9000 instead of £17,000 as by the firm. The laigest creditors were m Kurope ; those iv the colony were comparatively few, and he referred to the injustice of the outside creditors having no voice. It was agreed to adjourn the meeting for a week, with the view of allowing the debtors to make an offer. : • June 12. The licensed victuallers have memoralised Parliament to disp'eiwo with elective committees, that the Act be amended m the direction of reverling to a non-elected bench. , .. . luybbcaegill, June 11} Tee Town Council last night re~ duced the salary of the Town Clerk (who also acis as treasurer and valuer), from £400 a year to £350. Reductions were also made m the salaries of the Inspector of Nuisances, Foreman of Works, and Engineer.