TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 194, 14 July 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united press association.) /* ■ Dunedi.v, July 11. There was a uavrow escape from an accident at Port .Chalmers, when a deaf person attempted to cross the railsjustas the train was approaching. Captaiu McOallum had just time to. pull him back, *' At a meeting of the Cromwell Quartz Mining Company it was resolved to wind up the company. This course is brought about by the reluctance of shaiebrokers to pay calk. • Gold to the value of heaily ; half a million has been taken from the mine, and many shareholders are disposed to form a new company to acquire the water-right machinery and plant. '-•■'.'. , ■ . The Banks of Now y South' W&les have reduced their tiiscount r^ates foi', good paper. , , . • :'\

Cheistchurch, July 11. ' A petition signed by about 200 uneniployed was presented to the Mayor to day. The Mayor communicated •with the railway officials, who could give no work, and telegraphed to Wellington. No reply has been yet received. •

AnckLAjfD, July 11. In the Supreme Covert to-day, in the divorce suit Alex. X^inb versus Lizgie Lamb.afld A. %. p'osgrave, tye petitioner did not produce any evi? dence in support of hJ3 allegation of adultery against thd respondent, and the co-respoudeut, on oath, positively denied the adultery. His Honor, in summing up, animadverted strongly

on the petitioner's conduct in aspers* \ ing his wife's character and then not j offering evidence in support of the allegations, or even withdrawing these allegations. The jury found there was no grounds for these allegations, and the Judge dismissed the petition. The Auckland Poultry Exhibition was very successful, there being 4&1 . entries, 155 more than lust year. The offer of Mr R. T> Booth, of the Blue Ribbon Army, to start a> mission iu Auckland, bus been ac- i,'. cepfced by the General Committee of the Gospel Temperance Mission, It begins at the New Year. Mr George Macß&e, a, settler at Mangere, who has hkd th're© home* destroyed in the .recent agrarian outrages in the distriot, has now, in addition to boycotting, recoived a threat-ening-letter through the Post Office hinting at his contemplated aatgtfßrina. j tion. ' ' » ThameS, July 11. .A miner named Thomas: Quaelly ; ? was smothered this afternoon by a fall of earth.