TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 22, 24 December 1884, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PBESS ASSOCIATION.) Timaru, Dec. 22. Jonas and Bourn and the Canterbury Farmers' Co-operative Association held the opening wool sales of the season to-day. There was a good attendance of buyers, and competition was keen. Auckland, Dec. 22. Hugh McCulloch, gutndigger, attempted suicide by stabbing himself m the abdomen at Northern Wairoa. He was found with his entrails protruding, but is likely to recover. He has been drink ing for months, and had previously attempted suicide by hanging. Chkistchurch. Deo. 22. Arrangements are being made for a monster meeting to protest against the present grain rates on railways being enforced during the coming season. Mr T. S. Duncau, one of the earliest settlers m Canterbury, and for a long time Crown Prosecutor, died this morning. Invercarqill, Dec. 22. Price and Bulleid, drapers, have been fined £5 and costs for employing two girls after hours, m breach of the Employment of Females Act. The Magistrate said the penalty was made light because it was the first case of the kind here. Dunedin, Dec. 22. A violent thunderstorm was experienced about noon to-day. The rain poured down m torrents for nearly half an hour, and the street channels were like rivers. No serious damage is reported. | While on duty m King-street on Saturday night Constable Mcliauchlin found a man lying drunk on the footpath m such a helpless state as to render his removal "to the hospital necessary. He proved to be William Bayliss, fish hawker and bill poster, and of intemperate habits. He is still unconscious, and is not expected to recover. The body of James Anderson, who jumped intc the Clutha river at Clyde on the sth instant, has been found below the Teviot thirty or forty miles down. A verdict of suicide by drowning was returned. "Wellington, Dec. 22. At a meeting of the directors of the Gear Meat Company, it is understood it was decided to delare a dividend of 10 per cent., at the next annual ingThe property tax collected yesterday at the head office and post office throughout the colony amounted to about J30,000. A fresh circular has been issued respecting civil servants taking part m trading companies. This circular allows any of the Government servants to take part at meetings of a company at which their interests are at stake. By this, any of the officers can take part m proceedings at meetings, providing it does not interfere with his official duties. A gazette will be published m a few days with a revised tariff of railway charges. The principal alterations are m the direction of fostering local manufactures and aiding local industries. Where the rail traffic is opposed by road traffic reductions have been made, which will largely increase the quantity of goods carried by the railway. Gbeymouth, Dec. 23. The Star of the South is gradually slipping into the river. The chains and hawser are at the utmost point of tension. The bow is still out of water, but ! the greater portion of the hull is submerged, and the water is hallway up the smoke stack. Her hull was insured for each m the South British and New Zealand United ; and for £250 each m the Standard, Thames, Mersey, and National ; also for i'soo m a Home office. j