TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 202, 23 July 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION.) ; Auckland, July 21. Goodward received his second flogging to-day. The particulars cpneerniDg it are kept secret. Th,e jcabinen and tramway company are at loggerheads. The former haye been" ordered to move from tbe Queenstreet cabstands to make room for the tramcarSj but decline to do so. On Saturday ' afternoon they obstructed the. taairi line, and one oi the men threw a stone at a car aiid was arrested. It is stated that the cabman intend testing m Court the question whether they can be removed from the cabstands hitherto set apart for them. .*' ' John Pitfci a guradi£ger, was found drowned off Helensville Wharf this .afcertioon. He was drunk yesterday, anct fell of the cutter Wark worth last night, bat was fished oiitr He must have slipped off the tfeck again" last: night. ' ..;"' I'< "..••>. :L : ' .*. :i i.« : George Mitchell, one of the obstructionists to the new tramcars runniug, Was fined at the Police Court, 10s and costs for 1h rowing i stones at the driver ; he had recently come from Napier, ■■..,., „ ; Dtjnedin-, July 21, „. Mr H. S. Fish has issued a writ for £5000 damages against H. J. Walter, for libel contained m a letter publishedln: this tinoming's Tinie^ charging Mr Fish >^ilh corrupt practices 'for some yenrsi Mr Walter has replied, challenging an action, aud naming his solicitors, ! : . At the inquest of John- Burns who died after being arrested'for-drunken-ness, a verdict was given that he died partly from tlio;loH,i of bloodfrom the stomachy and partly from alcoholic ; poisoning 1 . — In the 1 bankruptcy examination of Mv Gr. Heeles, the solicitor for the bankrupt said that- but fei* mining ipecV lations : there would hayf " bqen po bankruptcy. Jr|is H6n«ft.' said he had no right' to enter into mming-. .speculations to the extent he had, no matter how rosy they looked, and suspended the order of discharge for six months. I , ... '■). :

TiAiAftu, July 21. The Upper Rarigitata, Hqitel was totally destroyed by fire last- night.