TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 98, 28 March 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNIxA) PRESS ASSOCIATION.} Dunedin, March 26. The Rev. James Curaming, Inspector of the _ North Canterbury Education ! \ Board died here to-day. He arrived m,; \)unedin a week ago, and had only^een confined to bed three days m his hotel. i He has not. been m good health for some ' tithe.' '.' Auckland, March 26. . ! I Owing to the reduction m wages by j the Auckland Tobacco Company, a number of cjgar-makers from Sydney and : Melbourne are returning there. At a meeting of the Auckland Native Lands Colonisation Company, a resolution was passed that the Company Bhould 'be wound up. \ i? The on|y tender received by Captain : Hellander for the floating of the steamer Thomas Russell from Oreti Poinf alid: ' delivering her m the Auckland Dock, ; was Mr D. Gouk's, at £4300. It has not- yel.-been decided whether or not this ■ tender will be accepted. „ f) . ._ ; A daughter of James McGairek, aged i 7, was drownqdin a .creek. i A project is on foot ' to establish a i Woollen Manufacturing Company m ; Auckland with a capital pi £50,000, a^n^ ; a directorate 'embracing gentlemen j from centres of population m the North : Island. Some dressmakers and tailors have been fiued for breaches of the Employment of F ; e.uule. Act. .■•■■ ;,.:,, : Christghdrgh, : March -26. :. ' W. Burton vyaßtorday committed for trial for an attempted criinin'al assault upon a married woman at Ambtrley. ' The Secretary :of 'the Christchurch Bycie/e Club has :reGeivedxnine entries from Dunedin for the races to be held. in Lancaster on. Easter Monday. „-- -i , Great' ,preoarations have been made : for the fete to be held to-inofrow'in' aid of the sufferers from the earthquakes 'in Southern Spain. The Lytteltpn .Harbor Board have de- : cided that import wharfage charges shall m future.only be levied on general merchandise, and no charges made^."for re-'shipraent iff goods that hay« paid" inward, wharfage^ They intend to represent to.the Government that the Railway Department, charges ; for loaditig and transhipping, gootjs.are still top high and ; but of all proportions to the trade of the port. .'..--■• . r . ( iI.ASTEBTOy; March -26. Williams and Beetham have erected , extsnsive boiling-down and meat-pre- , serving works at Masterton, and cora- ! menced work yesterday. t; '.. ':'...' /-. • Hawera, March -26?* The perjury case, Corkhill, v. Hutchison, was disposed of this afternoou. The 1 Bench .pronounced iudgement.inthe folr ; lowing terms ' :'— " That m the opinion of the Bench the evidence by no means ' supports even a priraa facie case of wil- ■ perjury against the accused./ Nothing ever; appears to have been; said; to ' Hiitcfi'iso.D to ( reinin,d h,im,,that, he, had giveri an' absbJut'e order m f a'vpr of PhiiI lrpfs,. and iri the opinion of the Court he I might easily ' halve forgotten 'having j given t^ich ah' 'abs()lute l order.' ;j The > CBBb | i&jjtherefore dismissed ■; and the Bsticli I lipjdq thatiiio stain: whatever m respect • jtp thps tijat^er. reots on Mr .Hutchison's character." ' M „ ■ ;