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Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 31, 7 January 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. .GISBOENE,;;Jan..6. ; A boy named Leonard Stubbs, aged 12, son of a chemist, was drowned m the' river Tarahera to-day. , He was bathing, and got odt of hi^ deptii^ and oould 'tint swim. Two other boys got hold of him, but he clutbnVd?sb -Hard they/ hlfli r t6- let go. The body was recevered. The body of Sarah Harveyv was recovered at ToJoga. horribly mutiliated by narTana being dashed against the tockb. Wellington, Jaii; 6, ■~At'£hT^||irefee Courrfb^aay a Maori," for b.ui-glajry^t'-the-'Brunn^ Codl ■■■$ Company's office, was senteucep^ to five years.. M^edn'alf^ m- refejfi erice to the alleged discovery of a gqlelbearing reef at Masterton, was acquitted. ■.■%■ Kaikoura, Jan. '6,' Before Mr Whitefoord R.M., to-day Edward Recce was fined 4d per head on 7000 infectetd sheep, Walter Gibson the same on 34,000, and Estcourt Parsons 3.1 on 1000. There are good prospects of all three flocks being clean soon. ; : Chbistchupch, Jan. 6. At the Supreme Court this mprfeing the rape case was postponed till the April sessions.; c : jßis Eldnor r«f used v to Jis|en to: au application on behalf of tne^pVisoner for bail, stating that if sureties to the amount of £10,"000' ~w^ere ;pfEered he would not accept them. y*\ £''■ ' :j: ,' ■^yj>DuNEDiN,i:Jfafiuai i y ! 6. 'Ji ? Baucop Jacob Vandyke,'chKfged with shooting at Miss Wadsworth with indent to uuinder, was found guilty, 'and sentenced to ten years., ,. t , " ' Napieb, This Day/ Lilly wlhite, the manager for the English Cricketers, vow m Australia, says m a letter to a Napier frieud, there is no chance oi: the team visiting New* Zea- ) land as prbfi table arrangements ' cannot be made. The team will visit Queensland instead. .; Cleavly, the jockey,' who was injured on Boxing Day, has become. insane..: . .