TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 74, 28 February 1885, Page 3

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'^t'tne' Licensing Committee election; to-day the moderate. party beat by a lftrge majority,, the teetotaller's nominees being m- every case at the bottom of ■ the poll, ■:■■■■■- :•;'■ ■■■ ' ■■■ Wy'y' ■ ; : We^lingt6s, FeW. 27. iilt: is- stated here that Major Cautley draws £1000 per. year while engaged on thfll'NewZealan^ defences. ELe is also pHti&d with a secretary, and both draw tfiVeliag 'expenses. : ' ; : y?»yi/U>T ■■•* a.i:i£\--- ■■'■■ ■' ■■'. ■■ ■ • io wo! .NEWr.Pi,YMOUTffi Feb. 27. I !.^ o'clock this morning a bMdni^j formerly ' used' iis/ an infant B^obi.^ il &iH-Bteee^,/tifif^^urnt to the . : ',^J®;sqh6pi v hoard, : sold the | ' bttudingi^st' July, at auction, for MG, j the purchaser immediately atterwards inauripg ;it.for 4*150 jn the London and I^pcajshireiGompany. . - : ; Xi : *?Wi"'- • : ;;f /ttEi.S6N, Feb. 27. : i^r Y^Ule, member of the. lnstitute of Minefiin Cornwall, has spent a week examininff i?the ; Champion and United! Ortper ,mine¥ m Aniseed Valley. His riport is dee'nled very favourable. * The l Hohl'-.Mr Larriach arrived here to-day. He^will visit the copper mines to-morrow, and. will be accompanied by ff^party^/iptfibpuV twenty, including the directors and public men. The Minister o^.SEries will, afterwards visit . Collingj^j^ ■pjdVman.hame^ James. Badford was^sent to gaol. for,. 14.idays by Mr Beetham, R.M., to-day, for cruelty to a girl .offline yearß' whom he had adopted. Theichild hod been tied' up with' a rope byi'the^hands and feet to 'a bedpost on several soecasions* one day from B ;; a.m. to^"^' ; t^tn.', aii3 : agaih left alone m the Itotis©fi^f6'the ; bedpoßt. ;• , ;, '. c "At' the phristchurch regatta to-day t|ie Champion 'l?ours and; Champion P^rßwere won. by. the Union Club; the C^ampibii Pouble Sculls byKaiapoi; I^ftdies' Maiden, and. Junior. Fours hy^he JJnion;; Maiden Double Sculls by Kiuapoijo- Junior: -Pairs and Doubles' Soalls by Lyttelton. The Union Club won <£70,' beside trophies. ■ l I™ i-^Tt Xim^u, Fet^ 26:. / "At i *he : Resfdent Magistrate's CouVttodajrPilriclc Ryan, the well-known ,abstfen'de^:? wijs; Bentenced to 18 months' hkird iitetfrttt jiripeny: There, are sty 1 s|ven^ sTiiiiiaf charges and two , for burgr lary to be heard against, him. , DtWEDi.y, Feb. 27. ■„,..':■>*!: „:..'■ '■'. .i .i' ■ , T^e, Upper JunctioQidlotel, an old and vtfjAr-j^ko.w.n .house, ind'.about font miles' f comjthe xHtyon the Main North Coad, wxb borned'down this evening. No partibalara'&reto hand; ' ! •