TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 223, 18 August 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united press association.) Chkistchurch, August 15. Mr Stout arrived by special traiu at Lyttelton at 2.40 p.m., and left by the tug steamer Lyttelton, engaged specially from the Harbor Board at £2 per hour. Mr C. W. Bishop, one of the earliest settlers, died yesterday, aged 69 years. Both the Christ-church Bowling Clubs will be represented m the in* terprovincial match with Victoria. A. man was convicted of illegal fishing m the Selwyn, and had to pay m all about £8. Dunedik, August 15. The seventh annual meeting of the Patients and Piisoners Aid Society was held to-day. The report showe I receipts £431, and expenditure £431. Although 210 prisoners received aid, and of these six had returned the sums advanced to them. At the Police Court to-day, James O' Flaherty, against whom there were three previous convictions for larceny and over fifty for drunkenness, was committed for tiial for .stealing a Masonic jewel, value £15, at Outran). He was also committed for trial for trying to commit suicide by cutting his throat m the lockup. The hotelkeepers of the boroughs of South Dunedin and Caversham have got up petitions for presentation to the Lioensing Committees m their districts, praying for the extension of their licenses till eleven o'clock. Auckland, August 15. The women's petition to Palliameut for female suffrage on the licensing law b*.s been signed by 1700.