TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 268, 9 October 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

PRESS ASSOCIATION.) : CHKISTCHITRCH* Oct. 7. The Government have arranged to ''' find work for the unemployed on the main' load between Nelson and Kai-" koura, and m the ' Christcnurch , Domain, at fair wages. : ' The Canterbury Yeomanry Cavalry entered upon the active work of their " annual training yesteiday, by a 'mounted drill, m Hagley Park. There ! were about forty on parade, principally from South Canterbury. * ■ : "A ; t' the" last annual training here'there^wero'eigh'Cy .present. . l " At the Kesident Magistrate's Court to-day, George Stevenson, who cume from ' England m the Coptic; was fined £25 for snuggling twenty-nine secondhand silver watches and three silver chains. : " . DvNEDm, diet. 7. Somewhat startling news comes . c from Sydney lir- connection wiHh the :i long pending lawsuit between Messrs Connor and McKtiyV formeri| r con-; tractors m Dunedirf. ttappkara that" Mr McKay 1 himself^ Mr Thomas | - Dodson, and Mr Ed ward Pritehftrd, i well kuowu m Dimedin, have boon arrested on a charge of' conspiring to defraud the creditor** of the said McKay of the sum of >£7600 • The hearing of the case commenced just before the laet mail left Sydney, and two wicnosseS had then r beiin examined ; but a^ there are -upward* of forty still to give evidence, the case /will probably last some time. Mr G. E; Barton, auother.old Dnnedin resident, appears m the case on hehalf of Mr 1 Connor. Mr Dodson wrotato a friend m Dunedin m a very hopeful strain, intimating- that he expects that he and Mr Fritchard at least will come off with flying colors. ,. • . TsrvEßCAnGrLL,*Ocfc. 7. =. : Bankruptcies, .which, were sonie-C ; what rare here for some months after _, the pas-ing of the new law^ are 'be* v coining numerous. t - . The bcidy <ft a man was'Tounil ' ' yesterday betvreea; Bdendale And Halfway Bush, lfc is supposed that he died from, exhaustion some weeks, ago. In one of- his 'pockets was foririd the discharge of E. Fisher, a steward from the s.». Victory, at Dunedin \w - ; "December ; 1883. There were*: also •, two letters- signed '* Youv; loving > sister Mary Ann McCarty," dated Boston, Mass., and other documents showing that deceased was a native ;of Jrelaud.r' 4t the inquest the jjury " returned an open veidiot, ■ -■*' ■.. ■ ■ '■' . •■ '•%''-- ■■ - ''• ~^ >-' : Nelson, .Oct. -7ii •■ A man named George Adams was arrested at Brigktwater this aftemooni ■ on two chatges of passing* valueless •' cheques. The cheques were drawn . on the Colonial ftunk of New Zoaland ar- Takaka, where that<bank Jiag no branch ; but two publicans cashed the cheques, which: wgre jfbr small amounts. ;