TELEGRAMS,

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 250, 18 September 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS,

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Christchurch, .Sept. 16. * Considerable activity has been displayed here during the past few days by merchants and others who had large stocks m bond, m clearing some i out for fear the approaching Financial Statement should contain any propositions for increasing the duties on certain articles. Dunedin, Sept. 16. The publicans of South Dunedin suburbs were to-day refused an extension of hoars frjm 10 to 11 o'clock, Timaru, Sept, 16. At the Magistrate's Court, Waimate, yesterday, Samuel Bed man and George Bed man were committed for, trial at the Supreme Court for making counterfeit coins. | Napier, Sept. 16. > A question has been raised as to the legality of the last municipal elections, owing to the borough Returning Officer having 1 appointed a deputy for one of the wards, and owing"* to one place m tho ( 'entral Ward having been made the place to receive nominations for candidates for all the three wards; and to the declaration of the polls having' been made from the Town Clerks office instead of at the duly appointed place m each ward. ' The person employed to canvass for signatures to the petition against the •Napiev ' Harbor- - Bill travelled all through "Waipawa county— a distance of 400 miles — calling at each settler's hon<e and only got five signatures. The stowaways on board the Te Anau were brought Iwfqt* the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday. The friends of one paid his passage money, the other was fined £1, far which a hat was sent round outside the court and the money raised.