TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 75, 2 March 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

iiitf ITNITBD PRESS ARSnCTATIO v .V ' :-. : ;AucKLAi(p, :^;eb v 26, Joseph Banks, manager of the Frozen Meat vCompany,' hak had ari interview with Dr Hector relative to fish preserv- ; in^projecte. THe doctor recommends attention being^ givetfprincipally to kabv/HA aaa-scbiiapjperi : ' " x ~ ; i:i '[^ ''Cbobis^shgbch, Fell. 27. Spanish^yice consul's appeal on. befialf of the sufferers, by the earthquake m Andalusia met with a liberal response. It; is ; proposed to hold & fete to raise funds. :•! - ':-• • :• : ■ ■ ' ; ' ' ■''-' '• Half a doien young men left to-day perHauroto 'to endeavour to join the Sydney 'contingent for r tbe Soudan. The ; applications 'far space at the Industrial Exhibition amount to 6400 feet. Thjere"'are over 50! exhibitors. ;■.. ;. . ,- ; March 1. Tilfiyi* Goltpn, Premier of South Austrfilift, has. visited Christchurch. He ar-rived-from the South. Applications irom various parts of the district have raised the amount of space at the Industrial Exhibition required for North Canterbury to 84,000 feet, on siccotlnt of 63 exhibitor's. •; ; V . JJitn^din, March. 1. . H.l). 'Wlllcox, telegraphist at Alexandra South, ; m ; yincent : County, has been brought before the local court and remanded on aoharge of embezzlement of public moneys. r<= The six days' go-as-you-please, which was A failure, was won by Rayner with 365^ mites. Swan did 362$ and Crofts 350imfles; ' ' ■ . Mr Matthew Heury Oifam, of the Royal Hotel; Christchurch, and a wellknown resident here, died very suddenly yesterday from heart disease. He was . taken ill on the racecourse, and brought into Mr Haydon's (Mterton Hotel m a cab. Dr'Prm's, of Christchurch, who. was ofl the course was sent for, and prescribed a powder for him, to be given every Quarter pt an hour. Mr Haydon and; :i Mr : Piliet were m attendance on hini, and whilst Mr, jHaydon was m the act of .giving him one of the powders at 6 piin., he died m his arms. He had been speaking a moment before. The occurrence is much deplored by all the Chrißtchurch visitors. The body will be taken td Christchurch for burial.