TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 170, 16 June 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRBBS ASSOCIATION.) Dunedi.v, June 18. , Mr David Bower, farmer, of Clutha district, had his stable and four draught horses desMoyed by fire on Thursday morniug. There was no instunace. In. the insolvent estate of Joseph Parker, farmer, Bruce county, the sale of his farm, stock, «fee., has re • suited m sufficient being realised to pay all the cre<litoiv< m full and hand over a substantial sum to the bankrnpt. Nelson, June 13. A cablegram has been received by a business house here from a London correspondent, which refers to a sample of Nelson hops, and is to the following effect : — " I can sell at £7 per cwt; market rising; vermia increasing. Auckland, ' June 13. The captain, passennrei-s, and crew of the abandoned French barque Bonfille chartered a small vessel, and left Karotonga for Tahiti on 28th May. The charge of indecent assault against Captain Scotland, of the ship Crusadey, on a passenger named Mary Bashly, has been partly heard. The evidence for prosecution is bein^ fcvkei. The defence commences torn oi row. At the inquest on William Pickett, the sharebroker, who committed suicide last night, a verdict was re turned of temporary insanity. His books were found m a confused .state. The liabilities are £700. His cheques had been dishonoured for calls, ami the Bank of Austialasia had, horn a note found m his oilice requested payment of an overdraft. Next week he would have had to meet more call* and pay a dividend on 800 shares held by him for clients, but a large number of which have not their transfer registered, aud, consequently, are unaccounted for. He was a native of Rath, and had been fourteen year* m the colony. From the manner m which ho shot himself, ifc is believed that he had read m t^ie papers a report of LillewalPs suicide.