TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 69, 23 February 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

|;(I*SJJ!BD>BEBS 1 ASSOCIATION.) ' hn ■_■:^>!ettkiSTGnirhcnV Feb. 22. ! $FKe Mtfttuu Life'Associatibiiof Australiahave decided to establish a; hew braneb ,ofljcev m . Christchurclu ;The Hpn. „TSfcjJ R.. -peeves,; and ; Mr-tf. B. ; WebK jwe a bpai;&. of directors, to have control 1 over'f'ail 1 offices "iii the South Island; F<a*nely/ y Auckland was ■ the prfncipaltofficefor till New Zealand. vjW: •:}' •; IUVBRCiRGILLV Feb. 22. Blaok's flour mills, near Winton, we're bmmed; down last i'night. nThe fii*e is suppofled haye .been the work of an incendiary, '„ fa n^an sleeping upstairs had only time tp 'escape. ' ' There was no water, < »ria !4 ii(ftHirig^wks ' y tsie& ' bplding wMJ fo£ured"ih ! the South 'British' for ; £50$ i>ni the loss ' is : iJIOOO above that Sum..; „- ijj ■]■}:;■; J .-.-.; ■ .;/l : ;')•- ■•''•- T/; V-uu::-.^ tNA^B,.F 9 U22 vl . A, ( naarL . Quidaille was., nearly: drqwiieci'whe'n bathing on the beach yesterda^. ;; He Ol wa^ rescued . 'm thie, last stage of exhaustion. Mr Ziegel, manager of the clothing -factory, nearly met his death m his attempt to rescue Ouidaille. - . rr ?, , „» ..■:;,;• Mf J."C. "Brown, M.H.E., m company witH a Southern resident, returned yesterday from an overland trip visiting several properties between Gisborne and Wsiroa j .waHefupSer ,Ho them- ; by. . the natives. The pountry they passed through is iftttieii -opmiori, for agricultural and grazing purposes, equal to anything they have seen m New Zealand, almost the whole of which is at present unused.., ; . r• r V li l ' j i'• • ! - ■'■ ' - WaKgani/t, This Day. At the Police Court, oto-day, a farmer,, natded Browhlee, was fined Ml and.- costs, for offerin^'lousy.sheep for sale m public yardsi 1 The cake was T)f ought oh by Inspector Blundell, who stated that i^. was the first case' under the 1 new Actj and heViid not press for a heavy penalty. At the revision of toe Waitotara electoral roll, tovday, 268 nalnes were struck offKi: .■■<; .\i ;v :i i ■