TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 81, 9 March 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PIIESS ASSOCIATION.) „ GiiKiSTCHURCH, March 6. ' '-''^A largo sate oftshares m the Sotjihern Cross Petroleum Company., was held to- ■ day. 3700 were sold at> prices ranging i I from 6d to Is Bd. . j •The total amount pf city assessment this year is L 245,548. A halfr-casto named J. C. Cuff, alias Robert Taylor, who is charged with forgiug a promissory note for over LIOO at Invorcargill, and who escaped from custody on February 26. at Waiau, was re-captured by Detective Jones :at JJotherhaui's Hotel, between Huruuui ; and Waiau to-day. He is m a feeble condition from exposure and privation. , The Lytteltoii . Licensing Committee decided to extend ' the hour of closing from 10 to 11, the latter hour being generally adopted m aud: aronnd Christchurch. : - ... ■: The weather has cleared and become brilliantly . fine. ••'■,■ ; JDunedin; Msirch 6. A' meeting, of shareholders, m the ; | Guiding Star Quartz Mining Company, ! Westport, was held, to-day.' Very general disatisfaction was expressed at 'tub quantity of. atone crushed, and complaints were made of false represents tions of the mine. A resolution was passed requesting the directors to suspend operations fora month so as to allow of a survey of the mine. .The. Acclimatisation. Society has declared all impoited~game, except hares, protected. The hare season, as also that for native game, is to extend from April 1 to Ju.ly .31. . The pVbjectf of sending a team of New Zealand bowlers to the tournament at Melbourne at Easter has been abandoned, as a sufficient number could not be got together. ;•■;. . , -A cable advice Was received m town yesterday from Glasgow, announcing the dehthof Mr John Galbraith on the. 4th instant. The deceased gentleman was scpior partner m the well-known snipping 'firm' of P. Henderson and Co., of Glasgow,"aiid was af tei wards' managing director. oc the Albion Companyand cm its amalgamation with Shaw, Sayill, and Co. became one of the board pf , directors. 'i ._'■]. Tima v, March 6, ' W. Uprichard, commisaion agent at Temiika; committed suicide by taking arsenic- No cause ia assigned for the deed.; ;; : ! i The Washdyke Saleyards Company . formally opened their new yards to-day. The Washdyke is situated about three miles from Titnaru, and will be the great entrepot of Pouth Canterbury. Nelson, March 6. Several, deputations waited on the Hon. Mr Larnach. One represented the desirability ot\the^ Gpvernnmnt aiding by gi-ant the obstruction of & road giving access to the Mourifc ' Owen ' reefs ; .T.he. Minister of .Miii*!B spoke favorably of the enterprise shown by the pr.ospectors, .\v.i«hin.; them : success, and said that such woi'k deserved Government assistance. He promised, if funds were avail- ' a,ble, i to grant the liiangahua Council, witliihg whose boundaries the reefs were tKe siiin of £300 towards the work;. . . . " ' :; :; Maiach 6. At a meeting of the ratepayers last night an influential committee was-, appointed to collect information andjreport as to the best way of providing a jwater "supply and a drainage system for the borough. ; ; ?; . M ; Atjckdand, March 6. Nin&4onders have boon rei-eived forthe erection of the Art Gallery and Library. That of Messrs Price and: Malcolm, at LI 9,505, has been accepted. Private information. has been received, but not authoritative, that the bojdy of a female child, about three days old, has been found on Shelly Beach sewn up m a gunny-bag. The police are investigating. , John Connally has been arrested for arson, ,charged with setting fire to his dwelling, with intent to defraud the South British Insurance Company.