TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 66, 19 February 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Ddnedin, Feb. 17, . At the City Court, to^-day, Robert Boe- :- nick, a lad, was fined lQs and co^ts for. causing to be inserted a false notice of birth m the Daily Times. This is the' first information under 1 the False Notice : of Birth Act, 1884. ■ l . ' Gheymouth, FebM7. > The Harbor Board have accepted the tender of Hungerford and McKay' for extending the south training wall; amount £17,938. Port Chalmers, Feb.; 17. Arrived, at G a.m. — Union Steamship Company's steamer Tekapo, from Glasgow, 02 days out. She brings 1654 tons of cargo. On flth February^ a salooja passenger, Mr Thomas Kilpatrick, aged . 19,'^died from consumption. ' CIIKISTCHURCH. Feb. 17. The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of New Zealand opened to-night. The Rev. James Tread well, , of Wanganui, was elected Moderator. In his opening address he laid special stress on the necessity for increased activity m : Church work, expressing an opinion that the number of elders m congregations should be largely attended; and their, sphere ot usefulness made more general. The local Board of Health has.de-, cidedjto urge upon the Government the necessity of an infectious disease hospital hfcre, of the vaccination: of children •m public schools, arid the taking/of proper meteorological observations m Christchurch.- ■•'■; , '•■,■;. : The'Ho'spital Board held a long lueeting to-night, and decided by a majority of pnev not to ask for a. Royal Commission into the management of the institu- ' tion, but that as all papers connected with the recent troubles had, been sent ' to the Government, the matter should bd' •left m their hands* ' i: