TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 115, 21 April 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED PBEBS ASSOCIATION). - Auckland, April 20. Tht> Lizzie*, from Norfolk Island, reports that a terrific storm visited Norfolk Island, on the 16th March, destroying 1 crops, blowing down trees, lifting, roofs off houses and doing other damage. At the inquest on, MeKplvie, a verdict of felo de se was returned. ' ' At a fire at 'J. W. Carr's buildings, Wakefieldfstreet, the fire • originated through the . accidental upsetting of a kerosene lamp m Dodswortb's bedroom. -The budding, was gutted. , F|ve thousand persons were carried yesterday by the ferry steamers to inspect thd North Head defences. , r "Wellington, .April 20.; The Minister of Public Works returns to Wellington by the steamer Coptic on Thursday. Dunedin, April 20. ;" A creditors' petition to adjudicate David Proiulfoot^jj the well-known contractor, a bankrupt,' came before the reg?Btrar,tand/ridjii»lic(\t.ion, -was granted. Proud Foot is at pres«nt'on bis way back from New South Wales, w r here he has large contracts on hand, Balclutha,, This Day;. Mi 1 Thomson addressed a large meeting of his constituents at Clinton last eventing upon the oast sesßion,ful'y explaining his own action m moving the motion by which the Ministry was defeated. The meeting was enthusiastic m Thomson's favor and paused a unanimous vote of thanks and confidence • Chbistcuhbch, This Day. On Saturday James Daley an oM respected settler at Akaroa was found dead m his bed,. He had Wen m th« habit of taking German chloroform for sleeplessness and on this occasion had evidently taken an over- dose. Wellington, This Day, The Government have under consideration the case of Prendergast convicted and sentenced to death at Auckland for murder and ho wbb recommended to nvrcy. ': Parliament will, it is believed be called together the first week m June. The f xpenso of defence! is estimated at a quarter of a million.