TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 32, 8 January 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

; (UNITED PBttSS ASSOCIATION.) i . . Auckland, Jan. 5. James Shears, has died at the hospital from concussion • of the spine. . He fell out' of a' trap coining from the steeplechase races on Satuiday. The Hineinoa is still at Waiwera, but her future movements are unknown. The Insurances on the Robin Hood wore in ,tlie South' British, not iv tho New Zealand oflico. , . Westpobt, Jan, 6. The difference between the coal min r era land the Westport Coal Company re- ' mains unsettled. No coal of course is coming dowu. Captain Williams of the Koranui mines, recommences work shortly. GISBORNB, Jan. 6. Stevens, a local bankrupt has arranged to pay 20s m the £. Napier, Jan. 6. A poll for a loan for harbor.improvements takes place on the 20th instant. Strong committees have been formed m . the various centres of population, and m two days over fifteen hundred pounds was voluntarily guaranteed towards the expenses, such as conveying voters to poll. This is necessitated by the stringency of the clause m the Act which counts every absentee or voter who does not poll, as against the loan proposals. ; Ross, Jan. 6. Negotiations are pending between the Ross Borough Cnuucil aad the Ross United Gold Mining Company for supplying the town with the company's ,«lectric light. ' ■ ; • Cheistchurch, Jan. 6. At a meeting of the guarantors of the . .West Coast railway this, afternoon itwas unanimously decided that the scheme for the construction of the railway from Chfistchnrch lo Brunnerton and Brun--1 norton to Nelson ? should bo placed on the London money .market as a joint scheme, and Messrs A. Scott and A. H. Dobson will leave for London on January 17 to -float the project. If possible Mr Fell, Crown Solicitor, of Nelson, will accompany them: