TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 247, 15 September 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

PRE?B ASSOCIATION.) Auckland, Sept. 13. George Bl<ike, a .fanner at Mangere, h»w heen 6ned L 5 and T'is costs for selling adulterated milk to the Auckland Dairy Company. The analysis showed_33 per «ent. of water. Three lads named John and George Evans and George Heads have been sentenced to one months' imprisonment with hard labour for robbing Mrs Smith, of Dunedin, m the Wes - tera Park, CHRISTCHrRCHj Sept.; 12. A meeting of the Oxford Licensing Bench wax held on Wednesday m accordance with a mandamus of the Supreme Court, to consider the case of the Oxford Hotel, for which a renewal of the license was refused at the last sit(in£. After consideration ft <w&s. resolved to grant a new license for the hotel. A meeting of the unemployed was held this morning, at which about fifty were present. The men Rave recently been discharged from the Government relief works, and are offered work on the Little River railway line, bat being married men they say the price offered by the Government (eightpence per yard for formation) means little short of starvation for themselves and families. It was re- 1 solved to petition, the Government fora higher ..price, and to ask Mr Holmes, M.H.K., to support the ap plication. The city cartors had a gala day today. Abont.loo conveyance?, headed by a band, marched through the principal .streets. Thames, Sept. 12. The new Prince Imperial mine has produced half a ton of exceedingly rich specimens within the last three days at & depth of nearly 500 ft belowsea level, and there is-cvery probability that further rich hauls will be made.