TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 33, 9 January 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

("UNITED PBKSS ASSOCIATION.) ! „, . M.ASTEB,TON,< Jan. 7. ' The delegates of the North Wairarapa County Settlers' Association have re-, solved to invite the Hon. Mr Ballance^ to a banquet when he is passing through Masterton. ; Christchurch, Jan. 7. : The report of the commission re un-! employed was posted to-day for trans-' mission to the.Govermentat Wellinjgton.; The accompanying evidence is 'very voluminous; Dunedin, January 7. ; .The Star, my &: — Litigation on thej Strath-Taieri,. dummy case has ceased. The present occupiers of the country give up, possession, and jay i>looo and costs to the' Crown, and abandon 1 the ap- ! peal. i Auckland,: Jan. 7. Mr John Lundon left for Samoa yester- 1 day io ' establish stores m the group on behalf of an Auckland firm. ■ „ .. ; At the Supreme Court sessions,, j;p-day, the Judge remarked upon the unusual number of th'e cases for trial. The! number of prisoners was the heaviest' sinee 1 he' had presided over the Court.! There were 36 offences agamst .26 ■ per-, sons* With' two or three exceptions,' however, the charges were not. of a serious character. • . A foptijace between Pickering (of Auckland) , . and ' Woods (of Dunediii) ended m a fiasco. Woods was : left on the post 'and Pickering got the stakes. Bets' on the ground were cried off before the racei . ; ■;•■■•! Among the through ; passengera by . the Australia for. San Francisco was Al ? Fred Deakin, Solicitor- General and Commissioner of Public Works, Victoria. He has been appointed chairman of the Ir4 rigatioii' l iahd General Water Supply Commission, .and visits America to obi tain th'e- tullesi finformdtion al to the manner m which such matters as are to be inquired iritb by- cpmmission, are dealt with there.