TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 80, 7 March 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(united pbkss association.) "Wellington, March 5. The Harbour Board to-day decided not toKght wharves with electricity as too costly. At the Thomdon Licensing Committee to-day reference was made to Sunday trading. The chairman of the committee, said he quite believed that difficulty was experienced m convicting publicans of Sunday trading, owing to a number of loopholes of escape which existed. Inspector Goodall remarked that the present Licensing Act was not nearly as good as the one previously m force, his experience being that it was about a hundred times more difficult to secure conviction now than under the old act. The Gazette notifies that Mr Charles M. Tennant has been removed from the office of coroner within New Zealand. The Gear Company have just preserved between 20 and 30 cases of fish for Mr Nicholas Fernandez, fishmonger, who intends to send them to India and Home as an experiment, and to endeavour to open up a market for fish. A peculiar case is now being enquired into by the acting Commissioner of Customs. It appears that parraffin candles, Orient brand, are imported m packets supposed to contain one pound each, and packed m boxes supposed to contain 25 pounds ; but the packets are not fully a pound, and the, boxes only contain 23 7--10 pounds each, and importers demand that duty should only be paid on the actual weight. It is understood that the Government has arranged with the Loan Agents to offer terms for the conversion of the Consolidated Loan debentures of 1876. Christchurch, March 6. A movement is on foot here to induce Government to establish a home for the cure of inebriates. Sir Julius. Yogel has consented to receive a deputation on the subject. Dunedin, March 5. The Mayor has, at the request of a number of the citizens, telegraphed to the Premier, requesting him and Sir Julius Yogel to address a public meetiqg m Dunedin at an •nrly date. The lad William Fraser, who was injured on the Cavershain tramway on Tuesday, died at the hospital this afternoon.