TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 73, 27 February 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

pke9B association.) j Chijistciiurch, Fp!>. 25. ! It has been deckled to commemorate St. Patrick's Day by a banquet on a large scale. The weather still continues wefc. . Kumaba, Feb. 25. With the exception of one slight shower, there has been no rain here for the last three weeks, and many miners are consequently idle. Invercakgill, Feb. 25. The body of Mary Dunn was found by Harbormaster Clare to-day, near the Heads. All the bodies of those drowned on the 14th instant have now been recovered. Mr Conyers started yesterday on a survey of the country between the head of the Bluff Harbor ond the mouth of the Mataura Biver, to determine the possibility of cutting a canal by which the Toi-tois traffic could be carried for shipment to the Bluff. Auckland, Feb. 25. The Hinemoa, with Sir Julius and Lady Yogel, left for Gisborne this afternoon. : ' Meetings of the Congregational Union ol New Zealand are to be held m future m October, instead of February, and the office will too removed from Dunedin to Auckland. - The single women by the Doric have all been- provided with situations by friends, and scores of applications for servants were refused. Blenheim, Feb. 25. The Willmott Company met with a mishap m the final scene of " Uncle Tom's Cabin " last night. A stand containing angels wafting Tom to Heaven came down with a crash just as the curtain was falling, and Miss Lena Wyatt and a little girl sustained slight cuts on the head. Uncle Tom and the other angels escaped with severe shaking and night. Miss Wyatt is not prevented from performing to-day. There was great consternation m the crowded audience. •