TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 112, 16 April 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(united press association.) Gisborne, April 15. One thousand votes were polled m favour of the harbour loan, and only live against it. The board decided ou taking preliminary operations for raising <ho loan, and will diocuss the appointment of au engineer at the next meetdug. Tatnai Mohe, a Maori has poisoned Dumself with tutu, which ho boiled and ■drank as medicine. Auckland, April 15. The experiments iv manfacturiug gnu cotton iv Auckland have proved most satisfactory. Tho Auckland contractors have to-day stripped their works of 100 men to work «*it the harbour defences. 340 men are to bo employed. An excursion train left this morning f(ir the Waikato with a number of leadjug citizens to take part iv the ceremony of turning the first sod of the Punui ilailway. Mr C. J. Stone, an old and very wealthy settler of Auckland, . died of heart ■disease this morning. He has been 43 years m the colony. l\v\ was a director of the Bank of New Zealand, ami was largely interested m the timber turning industries. His sons are 'Messrs Slone Bros., tho well-known shipowners. Arrived — Ship Loch Linnie, Captain Vaiighan, 98 days, from London. She liad v Htormy passage. The provisions Were damaged through water getting into the cabin. ■Wellington, This Day. At the Dnnedin Supremo Court m tho case Murray v. Brown for trespass, wrongful sate, and assault, the jury returned a verdict for £300 damages. Woodville, This Day. A sale of Crown Land m Matarnhara Block was held hi* re to-day. Fourteen -deferred payment sections went to competition, one section running to nearly ..£5. Tiic whole of the sections with the -exception of about twenty were disposed -of.