TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 142, 21 May 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

— • (UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) CtrarsTCiiußcir, Tuesday. The Canterbury Volunteers will have ri, £*■*!** s?* Bri S hton on May the 25th, when the new corps of Mount. g* * a£m & recently organised by Major Slater will turn out for the first time. Negotiations have been commenced between 'Lightband, Allan and Co., and the bootmakers on strike with a view to a peaceful arrangement of the pointß m dispute. r Stack fires have .been very pre*. valent lately, and incendiarism is sudfc pected. Dunediv, Tuesday. JP' At Booth's meeting last night specially for Volunteers, there was the greatest crowd ever seen m Dunedin, between 2000 and 3000 being present, while hun" dreds were unable to gain admission. Two hundred nnd ninety-eight pledges were taken, and. over 400 ribbons were distributed. A trial was made of the electric search hghts for Auckland Harbor Defence. The hght v of 35,000 candle power, and will make an object clearly visible at a distance of 1500 yards. The trial was a success, considering that the engine was not a powerful one. Kumaba, Tuesday. John. Biggs while working m the l^chborne tail race this morning was washed down the sludge channel ' head foremost. He crawled quietly away, and is now m the hospital. Except a scalp wound, which is not senoua, and bruises on the arms, he is not much hurt. Auckland, Tm sday. Selby Callag dropped dead near the Harbor Board offices. Papers found on the body showed that he had relatives at 1 aranaki, and three children at St. Marv'a Orphanage, Nelson. John Ayres, jeweller, has been arrested on a charge of breaking into and entering the premises of Messrs Hart and Levy, pawnbrokers, m June, 1884. and stealing therefrom jewellery, &c, to the value of £125. Thi discovSy was made m a singular manner. Professor Kirk-, who ia at Waikato inyestigating the cause of the apple blight m the orchards, is of opinion that it it a blight which takes the form ot lichen generated by decayed ferns. The agents of the Shaw-Savill .nd Albion Company have received a cablegram from London that, owing to iniurv to her propeller.thes.a. Doric, which wal to have left Plymouth for New Zealand on the 28rd instant, has had her sailing date postponed untilthe 16th July!! Timabu, Tuesday. The captain of the barque Kassa, aS? ££**? t0 ' da i Tt reports that on April 29th he spoke the brigantine Nightingale, waferlogged.l The crew reported that the captain, and officers had abandoned the vessel five days before, ineysaid they required no assistance but wanted to know their position, which Captain Miles gave themT They wer« th iT i°° S E ' S - E - He ?uttSon. nOt aPPSart6 b - *«f