TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 65, 18 February 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PKESS ASSOCIATION.) ;. AncKLAjsri),'Fel>. 16. ;U -Sir Julius Vbgel received a large number of deputations to-day. . / i It was" announced at the Hospital Committee meeting to-day, that the •hous^ surgeon of the hospital declined to accept the recommendation of the committee th&t he should resign 1 , and that he had applied to the Colonial Secretary for a commission of inquiry. The honorary medical visiting staff also forwarded a ; letter expressive of regret at the committee's decision. The Committee intend now .to jawait the result of the Government's action ' for the outcome of the commission. . . , Dunbdin, FeWl6. The following have entered for the 48 hours' walk :— rßayuer, Sana Delaney, Fosse, Brooks, Bayne, Johnston, Crofts, and Scott. „ '■■ . ■ - ' - Chkistchukch. Ffb. 16. The body' of a young woman named •Helen- Sage was found on Sunday at Wost Oxfordj near the farm of Mrs Perham, where; she had been staying, and had left 'on .January. 16. , .She was of weak liealth. Ou being missed, a search ■ party scoured the country, but without . success, for several days. An inquest will be heldi -: ■■•.-■ Ross, Feb. 16. !. Nearly all employes of the Eoss United Gold Mining Company have struck 'to-tlay on the ten-hour system, ' and m some instances reduction m wages. A meeting: Jo£ the unemployed! <is to be held to-night. ; Taur^nga, Feb. 16. - ■ ■ •■ ■ . x : ' i A special general meeting of the shareholders, m j the Chemical Manure Company was held to-day, and it was decidto issue the balance of 30,000 shares m the company. -„,"; .-....• KipiAKA, .Feb. 16. Tlie* Premier Arrived' at 6 o'clock on Saturday evening and lectured to a large audience on politics at 8.30. He visited the hospital on Sunday morning. Mi? JLarnach arrived last night. Both Mini-sters-visited the public schools this.morning^ "and then"' went to "examine the diggings. They will receive a deputation: this afternoon, and r attend- a banquet tonight. .[■ • Invekcaugill, Feb. 16.. The search for the bodies of those drowned m the estuary on Saturday has 'so far ' proved .-fruitless, only the hat of ;| Rowlands being found tp-day. Rowlands has insurances on his life for . .£3OO, of which il'oo was arranged for m December. Dunn also had i'loo' on his life. Mtes Dunn is much better to-day.