TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 95, 25 March 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

•'•■■- ■">■> '' ■■■■= J y.-.;.vi.-;' i .y :iHrgi (united press- association.) I The .Jlemings, '. W)io''.' I Bo'orueny illtreated their children, got. a 'warm re'Qeption.from their'tieightfors;'at"Kensington 'on' their return home d&'Saturday night; -and ■ < fchgir /.effigies!/; were biinied. CHRistcJaiißCH, ftarolV&fop The Government have decided to reopen works on theWaiau road, to. nrovide wbrk^tor the ! most needy;.' of the unemployed. - : - >A : i number: of articles are t being* gqage at the recently established Kaiapoi glass works for the WelUn^foif EkMiKtion. Mr F. Dransfield, Formerly lieutenant m the Lyttelton 'Artiliery, ,has gonV^o the Soudan as a colour-sergeant m the New South Wales ;contingenjb. „.,,; > About 500 people w,ent by the excursion train to Kaiapoi on Saturday. The, Art SDciety|s.Exhibitipn closed on Saturday. The result of - the exhibition has been to shovr very material progress during the past yeari ' ' ' >- - ) - ' ■ ■" ' •' ■ : ■■■•■".' N elsok, Mai-ch' 29^ •' The Nelson Athletic Ground Company have received applications for up-' wards of 2000 share's^ /and the Company will be imnaediatelyi^regjafcered. It is proposed to call the ground Trafalgar Park. *' ■ , „- 4' : : '_ >', MASTBRTOiir,ltfarch 23. T. E. Price, stationer, Masterton, has been committed for triatoh a charge of perjury, arising out of the recent affilia,tioji cas«> ,; ,^ -:.;-,., v , v % ., .-j| £ i l .^ || v Bbefton, March 28. Mr Field has jusi p^rfp^ined^the jour, ney from^Nelsfan to Reetfioo-on aljicycle The distance is about 140 miles, which was accomplished m6O hours' " actual steamin^titne." .reports, the road m excellent order, and^brkj3d4Wma*lii|ie over the heaviest grades with comparative ease. The journey hence to G/eymoufch'"can be- completed v witii v equal ease. , ■-■•' An inquest was held to-day on the bodyjOf.^ohn Bennett, farmer, "Wakanui, who was'fpn'hd deaS under 1 his- dray- m the Ashrbiirfcon River !^>hiSu,nday. ■ The ; evidence showed he had mistaken hisy, ; wayvaad gone overa skepp embankmßpt . into the river,, ; the. dray falling on hnn and breaking his hack, causing instantaneous death. A verdict of ( " Acoi(Ten'tal death" was 'returned. 'iSeoeased was a well-known and highly r reflpected settler.