TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 55, 6 February 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Chkistchurch, Feb. 3. The nineteenth annual meeting: of the Christchurch Gas Company was held to-day. A dividend of 8 per cent, for the past half-year was declared. A meeting of A. Moore's creditors was held to-day. Tho liabilities, so fur as known, are .£15,000, the National Bunk being a creditor for nearly £13,000, but is partly secured. The available assets are small. Fel>; 4. At a meeting of the shareholders of the Temperance Hotel Company, held to night, it was decided to take steps to wind up the company; U is reported that tlio City Council have arranged to obtain the loan of £25,000 from one of the city banks hi 5 per cent., without any cost for raising it. Blenheim, Fek 3*. The police have laid an inf.nmuion against a member of the Salvation Army for exposing for sale copies of the War Cry m a public street on Sunday last. Tho chargo is laid under the Police Otfences Act, and she case comes on for hearing next Monday. Napieb, Feb. 3. At the annual meeting of the Gas Company to-day, a 10 per cent, divi dend was declared. The Chairman .stated that during" the year the gas consumption ha-1 increased 20 per cent. Pipes hud been ordeied fjr two miles extension of the mums. Greymouth, Feb. 3. The bar is very rough, and nothing can go out or come m. It Wow a violent gale this morning 1 . Duvediv, Feb. 4. The Aoransci, which sails to-mor-row, has on board 6048 carcases of frozen meat, shipped, through the New Zealand Refrigerating Company. The .ship Throkina is now being loaded with 10,000 carcases, of which a large proportion are shipped by Messts Shand. By a 6 re, caused by a spark from a threshing engine, on Fiiday last, Mr James Smith, of Greenfield Station, lost three stacks of oats and tho engine. There were 3000 or 4000 bushels of oats. Nothing was m. sured. Work has again been commenced at the Milton Pottery Works, under the njanagemput of Af.r Guy Neville, nephew qf Bishqp Neville, theiie are five men and about the same number of boy.: now employed. The Boys' High School will re open after the vacation m the magnificent new buildiug erected on the site of the old Lunatic A-yluro, overlooking the city. The Governor will make a special visit from Christchuruh on the I lth to perform the opening ceremony. It is proposed to have a procesion of pant and present scholars from the old building to the new one at the opening. Auckland, Feb. 4. At the annual meeting of the New Zeafand Timber Company, tjje next profit for the year was stated 'at £18,587. The directors recommended tha 1 ". the whole amount be carried forward to reinstate the mill destroyed Ivy the 'late fire, •