TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 87, 16 March 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

. PRESS ASSOCIATION.) I AncKLAND, March 13. Tne Government are inviting tenders ■ for the work necessary for mojinting one j of r the Si-pounders,, now- lying iat the North Shore, on the North Head. i A resolution was unanimously passed' by the Chamber of Commerce, urging the Government to put the.' Port of Auckland m a complete state of defence. Charles Brown, commercial traveller, accidently fell over the Marsden Point wharf, Whangarei, through tripping over some timber, fracturing his skull on the deck of a "steamer, Hopes are entertained of his recovery. Christchproh, Marcli 13. , Twenty-six entries have oeen receivedfor the Canterbury Coursing Club's Derby, and 22 for the Oaks. ... - > : Marcfil4. : : A woman named Home, while crossing the Oxford railway line, was struck by the' ■» cow-catcher of the approaching" train and thrown off the line, receiving severe injuries. The engine whistled three times, but she took no notice, ajid was rendered insensible. She died man hour and a half afterwards. An inquest 1 was held and a verdict was returned of accidental death. ' . . ; Dunedin, March 13.; After the inquest on Creed to-day, Dr Brown brought under the notice of lihe Coroner-that a patient had.died of puerperal fever at St. Kilda, and that the nurse refused to obey his warning not. to attend other patients. The Coroner said . he' could do nothing. Dr Brown : lifts since referred the question to 'the Mayor of St. Kilda, who has ; telegraphed to the Colonial Secretary to know if .any. action ' can be taken m the matter. ; '• : ' • . Marton, March 14. John Thain, contractor, of Turakina, was thrown from his horse, m Highstreet, Marton, this afternoon, and killed instantenously. He was unmarried, "abpufc 40 years old, and ,was somewhat the worse for drink, when' the accident occurred.; [The. Chronfcle. says that, his head coming m contact with the kerbstone, his brains being literally dashed, out on the spot.] • < .