TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 139, 18 May 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ChujstChurch, Friday., - Mrs Leavitt has formed a branch of the Women's Temperance ' Union. ■ here with f orty-f our members, Mrs Packe being Presideut. The Union has com-, menced operations by getting up a petition to the Legislature against the employment of barmaids. - The branch of St John's Ambulance Association established here now numbers eighty members. ' Several medical gentlemou have volunteered their services to deliver a course of lectures. Dunedin, Friday. James Swan was committed for trial for attempted suicide by walking into, the breakers at Ocean Beach. There was great enthusiasm at Mr Booth's temperance meeting when Mr Fulton, who recently volunteered to raise a local contingent for service m the Sou--dan came forward and addressed ' the meeting, calling upon the 300 who had offered to follow him to death to do so how and take the pledge. Saturday. Six stacks, the property of Singer an.d Co., were destroyed by fire. The insurance are £900 m the Standard of which two-thirds were re-insured. " It is evidently the work of an incendiary as the tracks of horses' feet are plainly visible. . : Blenheim, Friday. Daniel O'Brien was fined 40s for disturbing the audiende at Pollard's Opera Company last night, and £5 for resisting the constable who ejected him. The damage to the constable's coat was ordered to be paid out of the £5. Mr Alien, R.M., said he was determined to put a stop to annoyances to public meetings m Blenheim whether religious or otherwise. 31 asterton, Friday. Three-fourths of the salmon ova placed m the hatching boxes. of the Acclimatisation- Society are already hatched, and the remainder show already signs of vitality. . . Mr Blackett arrived to-day, and procoeds to inspect the. Waipoua overflow", which threatens damage to the railway line towards Mauriceville as well as to settlers' property. Gisbgjrne, Friday. Captain Burns, of the 'ketch Comet/ which recently went aground on entering the river, was ordered to pay " £15, costs of inquiry, for refusing help to get the vessel off. He had not a certificate— a fact to which the Court directed the attention.of insurance companies. Auckland, Friday. Mr John Brigham, aged 76, died yesterday. He was .a colonist since 1841, and the father of Mr J. Brigham, Secretary of the Harbor Board. Opunake, Friday. Mr Ballance is expected to remain two days. He visited Oeoto-day to consult Honi Pihama and other chiefs. The settlers are greatly gratified at the Minister sending Constabulary to Pungarehu. The Constabulary come from Wellington by the Stella. Mr Ballance inspects the road party to-morrow. ■ Wellington, Saturday. A young man named Charles Blackett, a station hand at the Upper Taueru, Mastertori, when returning, from work fell on" a. stufrip and injured his groin ' which resulted m death. ' Notice will be issued m a day or two intimating to applicants for commissions m the New Zealand Militia that they will have to apply to the officer commanding the district for a provisional commission and then present themselves before a school of insto-uction when, should they successfully pass" their examinations within three months the commission will be confirmed. The Horis. Buckley and Tole returned from Wanganui to-day.