TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 141, 20 May 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNIIKD PUMS A9<OOUT(OX * , Hawkra, Tuesday. Mni<>r Atkinson uddregtsos his constituents here on Friday ovminjj. Auckland, Wednesday. Colonel Wliitiuore hftK just concluded a contract On In-half of the Government with Ciipt. Whitney for the muu'nfacluie here of half a million rounds of inuntz iik tal Synder hall ammunition. .The price is but a slight advance on the imported, arliclt. Whitney has men m his j employ* xcqiiuinted with the manufacture of cartridges. It is understood that powder is to be obtained from Duuedin. Nai'lEßj Tuesday. The Harbour Board to-day declined to allow Mr Goodall to umke fixed periodical visits to Timani, but intimated that any applications for. leave of absence to visit Timaru would be considered. ' . At the Education Doard to-day Mi Orinond, m referring to the ri-solutioti passed during his absence, agreeing to anticipate next year's building vote, iutim;\t<d that unions the Minister for Education consented to that course Ivi would resign his position as chairman of the board. Wklmnoto.v, Tuesday. A portion of a boat has been found at I'uktrau, along the west coast. The wreckage liorc no marks or name At the Appeal Court to-day the case of Searlo and anolhet v. Now Zualnnd Insurance Company was called on. Thw action was one m which the plaar 4 tiff sued the defendant (the Insurance Company) on the policy of insurance on goods shipped by a French vessel from Oainaru to Capetown. A non-suit was entered by the presiding judge, and the appeal now was against that decision. Afier argument their Honors reserved judgment. ' At the inquest on the body of Timothy Doile, the victim of the boat accident, a verdict of found dead was returned. The deceased had a brother m Napier and a sister m Christchurch. *