TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 18, 19 December 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

# ; (united phess association.) Auckland, Dec. 17. The Auckland Southern' Cross for the 20th February, 1852, has been found showing, under the heading " Sydney Shipping," the departure of the Osprey, Captain Honeyman, for Valparaiso, on the 19th January of that year.' • Mr H. N. Abbot has received a letter from- Dion Boucicault, the dramatist and actor, stating that he expected to leaye for .Australia either, hy the next mail boat or its successor. A man named Barron, alias Starkey, attempted suicide by hanging himself m a police cell. He was cut down m time. He had concealed a piece of belt about his person. He had been : sentenced to fourteen days' for drunkenness. < Forty thousand people visited the City Baths during the year. The Harbor Board have reduced the salary of their Engineer from £'600 to 4500, and given him six months' notice of the termination of his engagement. The total amount ol salaries for the year, exclusive of free houses to the pilots, boatmen, &c, is .£5291. ; The annual meeting of the Auckland Benevolent Society was held last evening. The statement of accounts showed J97 to have been expended m the relief of the poor, and that the balance m the bank was 14s 7d. Two six-inch flat ropes, each 1000 feet long, have . been manufactured by the Auckland Fibre Company. These are the longest ropes ever made m the colony. * ChristchurcHj Dec. 17. William Burns, who had been m ill health recently, died suddenly, at Rangiora to-day. He suffered greatly from nervous excitement after hearing ol ttie railway accident, and this brought on fits, from the effects of which he died. At a meeting of the Christchurch South-east Licensing Committee to-day the license of the Langhani Hotel was declared forfeited, as the licensee (Allen) has left Christchurch, and has not been heard ironi since last meeting. Great excitement, amounting ahnost to a panic, was caused m Christclmrcli last night by reports that two excursion steamers m the bay had foundered and all lrves lost, but the report proved unfounded. J TiMARtr, Dec. 17. At the Supreme Court 'to-day m the case W. Hadfield v. T. H. Wigley, claim .£750 for malicious prosecution, the jury returned a verdict, for one farthing damages. ! ■(:- DuNEDiN,.Dec. 17. ! Sir James Prendergast and lady ar : rived by the Waihora yesterday from , England;, also, the Hon. Air Holmes. At the Resident Magistrate's Court Balcluiha',. yesterday, Robert Sparrow and Anllrew Henderson, "of Dunedin, were charged with using" dynamite m Kaitangata Lake for the purpose of taking trout. The witnesses for the posecution could remembor nothing. One witness said he might have been m a boat, but could, hot. remember who were also m it. The Resident Magistrate, m dismissing the case commented* on the peculiar forgetfulness of the witnesses, j . Gisbokne, Dec. 11. Barau, a Maori, who was sentenced to eighteen months for a bad case of forgery, through the influence of Hon. Wi Tako Ngatata, Ins uncle, and Wi Pere, has been released after serving five months. Other native forgers sentenced ; at the same time are still m gaol. Hokitika, Dec. 17. Large returns of gold are anticipated from the various mining centres by Christmas.