TELEGRAMS.

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

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Chkistchurch, Feb. 27. The Acclimatisation Society have dertecid to recommend the Government to declare this year close season for all imported game birds m the district. The season recommended for hares and native game is April 1 to July 31. The committee of the Early Closing Association report that nearly 100 tradespeople have agreed to close on Thursday afternoons.- * The Canterbury Chess Club agreed to invite Blackburne, the celebrated player, now m New South Wales, to visit Christchurch, to give an exhibition of his" . blindfold v simultaneous play. The club 'Will guarantee .£ls towards his expenses, and it is expected that clubs m other towns will also take an action m the matter. Applications for 4491 feet of space at, the Wellington Exhibition have been received m Christchurch, and promises to ' the extent of 1400 feet more. The result of the examination of pupil teachers, under the North Canterbury. Education Board is most satisfactory. Out of 170 candidates m the various;, grades, only 8 failed. The inspector reported that the failures are less nume-. rous than m any previous year. This' maybe -30.6 m some measure to the fact that the requirements for each year are now more precisely defined than for- ! merly, aud the questions set down were well within the limit of those requirements. Invercabgill, Feb. 27. The weather continues remarkably fine and sultry. The Bluff Harbor Board to-day made a' temporary appointment to the staff, 1 consequent on Captain Edie's declining to take the office after being appointed. It was resolved to advertise for a harbor- j master, the salary being raised to £'400 on the casting yote of the Chairman. It ! was proposed to consult the board's solicitor as to the possibility of making. Captain Edie reimburse the board for the j loss incurred through his action, but I the motion was not carried. • _ ; Auckland, Feb. 27. Mr G. Fisher,. Mayor of Wellington, and Mr G. V. Shannon, who have been here for the last few' days on businessconnected with the Government Insurranee Board, left per, steamer last night for Tauranga. They intend to visit the Lake County, and go overland to Wellington. The Mayor of Auckland accompanies them to the lakes. The late Mr James, secretary to the Board of Governors of the Auckland College and Grammar School, having had a guaranteed policy of £500 m the Standard Insurance Company, the board has decided to make a claim on the company for the amount. The total misappropriations discovered amount: to £1249, : His defalcations .seem, to have been occasioned by unlucky speculations. Some months ago James 1 accounts were to have been audited by the provincial auditor, Mr L. Durrien, but the work was not done till a few days after his death. How that the defalcations are known, it is believed that the dreadful anxiety under which James must have labored had much to do with the attack that caused his death. About - two months before James death on© of the members of the Waitemata County Council, of which James was secretary, discovered that there was . a little irregularity m the secretary's cash, but it was rectified, and the accounts of the, council are found to be correct. At the annual meeting of the Thames Valley and Eotorua Eailway Company, Dr J. L. Campbell presiding, the report stated that the directors forebore from entering into any history of the past year with regard to the railway, pending the negotiations with the Government for the completion of the line, without the necessity of making further calls \ on 'shareholders.. ; The expenditure jduring the year had been £44,017 ; bank overdraft, £20,546. Messrs Daldy, Halcombe, and Howard were re-elected directors. , At the native meeting at Kihikihi to s consider matters m connection with the railway and land, Wahanui stated that the natives are about to prospect for gold : iv, the interior, and Barry, who i was present, is $o have charge, with full, discretion. .-...-. Immense bush fires are raging at; theUnion Sash and Door Cby.'s bush', Tairua. The portion "burning is not of much value, most of it '"■ having' been worked of the gum.. A store and contents, value £300, has been destroyed.. Two men are missing. It is supposed they have been burnt to death. : Feb.,2B. \_,.vA fire m Chancery Lane at 1 o'clock this morning destroyed an empty dilapidated house.. The .freer library, tad ; a harrow escape.' • , Auckland has .applied for 2000 ft at the Wellington Exhibition. Arrived — Barque Glen Lora, Captain ' Sunders, 118 days from London ; Peerless, brigantine, . Captain . Hays,- from Ne\vYork, via Freeniantle'. ' Greyitouth, ; Fpb. ,£7. ; The State school closed this, ; morning for a term, partly to make repairs to the drains, &c;,;and partly^oa "account of cases of sore throat and supposed dintheria amongst the'ehiidren. There has been a long spell' of hot ' : weather, -which is supposed toihave something to do with the sickness. ..■.-, , . Nelson, Feb. 27. Twelve hundred feet of space has , been applied for here for the. exhibition^ •-,--. The Hon. Mr Larnach visited the copper mines to-day, and expressed him- ' self well satisfied. He leaves to-night on a visit ot inspection to the Collingwood coal, gold, and silver mines. - • Oamaru, Fob: 27. The licensed victualler's put all their candidates m to-day for three of the borough districts, and m the fourth the temperance party secured two seats. Napieu, Feb. 27. At the Licensing Committee election yesterday, the moderate party won by a large majority, the teetotallers' nominees being m every case at the bottom of the poll.