TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 100, 31 March 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

•» . •■• (united prkss- association.) Auckland, March 29. The Government surveyors were ye»- --' terday examining tha site* for inoantiug the heavy guns*. . . ' Poet Chalmers, March 28. TW report of the Jtuapeha being on the ; coast was false. The li^hC-houlNk ' ' ■ keeper at Nuggets Point mistook • '••■.'. small steamer for the Ruapehu; • and' ■■■■■ failed to telegraph his en or. Their* 1 ' are no signs of her as yet. Ddnedin, March 28. Fleming's children were committed to the Industrial School. A deputation from the Benevolent institution waited on Sir Julius Voget to-day, aud brought under bis outice tut serious state of the institution's finances. The Committee had only £90 m hand. Sir Julius Vogcl agreed to advance £500 on account of next year's vote* Ohristchurch, March 28. One hundred applications from the unemployed were'reciyedt »* the Public Works Office m three days. : The gross receipts at the Spanish relief fete and concert amounted to £184 —a very satisfactory sum, considering the wretched, weather. Bluff, March 28. • The schooner Dunedin whilst beating 'up the harbour this afternoon against * .strong north-east wind, carried away her rudder gear, and although the anchor was let go she drifted on Tewis Point, and is now high aud dry. The extent of the damage is not yet known. Th» schooner was partly loaded with general cargo from Lytteltoo. Oam abu, March 29. Mr Shrimski, M.H.B. for Oamaru, hat forwarded his resignattoii to the Bpeaker. It is said that Mr Shrhnnki is to bt called to the Upper House.