TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 143, 22 May 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united press association.) .. . Christchurch, Wednesday. •The Directors of thy Southern Cross Petroleum Company have received information that th-tr No. 4 hore. on Friday last, wns a. depth .of 198 ft, and goqdjpifcsfress was*being made. Pieces of rock taken from the bore haye v been sent down to Professor" Hutt'on,'-\vih'o'reportß that t'icy coisiat of grey argillnneous lime-stone, referred to in' its recent Riir- j y<ys as living over the oil beds. Good: indications are also, beiii'g met with as thehpre^continupß. /:'*■£ "s%#> , The strike V -hera $$&} fihfilly Battled to-day, - Mnssri Liglii^J b.-wid; Allan, and Co., the only whjrilesal^' firm who have resisted the demands of the men till now, agreed this afiteVnoon (to practically accept the reyisod state- J moht of w^j?es *übtn?tted by the-men, wlio will.r^iHiie work tb^npoirow; * Mastebtost, Wednesdsiy. The inquiry into the ■circumstances connocted with the removal of Sheep Inspector Siittpn fro'n Wairarapa was resumed to-day, but • oaiino to Mudd^n lormination. Cliiof tnspoclor' Bayly wished to prove "that 'scab had exist'bdf on a certain run for three months with*: out Mr Sutton's knowledge, but Commissioner Diivey stated that he was only ' th«»re to inquire into the causes of the removal, not into the justice .or injustice., of the cas»». No further evidence was therefore offered. ' • r: ; -. AutKLANb, Wednesday. Mr James Hurst, who has for many yo.ars past made th» scientific" manufacture of expl-'sJves a spocial study^ today forwarded to . the . Secretary of. Defence a sample of gun cotton, manufactured by him after General yon Tenks? process. Mr Hamlin, mßrnber for. Pranklyn South, met the electors yesterday. He disapproved of the land policy of Mr Ballance. He' received a vote of coiifi-^ dence. ' : ""■' Dr/NBDIN,' WedtiesdaVi Jacob Shustcs .is reported missing from Kaitaiigata. He had been.dVinkine. It is believed ho fell or threw himself into the river*