TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 14, 15 December 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

I — *_ i t (UNITBIj PftESS ASSOCIATION. ) Dunedin, Dec. 12. The Keast <and r^lcQarfchy Brewery Company held its third annual meeting to-day r The actual result of the year's was.a profit of £3518 ; losses, i£3s6,j£; The, losses weire -sustained by depreciation m the value of hotel properties.. There was a credit balance to, profit and loss account from previous^ jjroars, and a. reserve fund of £1000 ; i|>ut ■ it was considered unwise to declarer's dividend. ' ' ■...-.!■ I To-night's Star says ; — " We underWtatid that Mi; James Fulton, M.H.R. has returned ; to -the Treasury the sum of j£loo voted to him last session as Chairman of the Waste Land&LCommittee." j The tender of Mr .Charles Colclough (has been accepted for the railway advertising over the Middle:lsiand railways for three years. I xMr JSG.'S. Valentine,. fwho has beeri;ap- : pointed general manager of the New' Zealand Agricultural Company! arrived', by the Kaikoura. > i ' Christchfrch, Deo. 12. J 4; serious ! accident occurred to Dr Rouse, of Lyttelton, yesterday afternoon; He, was m the act of mounting his horse, when the animal bolted, throwing him backward. His head struck the stones ion the 'road, and ho was picked up m. sensible. 1~ .\ .:<• . . , . Mr Whitefoord, R.M., who was thrown , out of a buggy yesterday, was not .seriously .Mrs Whitefoord retnained "unconscious till noon to-day. No 1 serions consequences are now anticipatod. Oamabu, Dec. 12. At a meeting of the Licensing Com- : mittee to-day an extension of hours to 11 o'clock was granted to all publicans. ' ; . Auckland, Dec. 12. ■ The owner of the Triumph has made ■ some progress towards arranging an bx- ; periraeatal charter to load the vessel at | this port shd Napier for London. | .Sericulture is; to have a' practical trial lat Whangaf^i. Senor Grothe," reoently i floriculturist ia Spain, intendaer acting ; buildings and going. into the industry on ; a ltirge scale. ; ' ' " il - ; •- •" {, .■ ; . ! -< T : : Hokitik a, Dec. 1 2. ;; -The w'drkg of Humphrey's Gully Com^pany are progressing satisfactorily. The long tunnel of 58 chains has been driven fpr over 52.chaius, leaving the distance how to be driven: under six chains, with I good driving,