TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 2, 30 May 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

: (ITNITKD PBBtiS ASSOCIATION I^ , . Auckland, Friday. Charles Hoe, an old man, dropped dead at Otiiliuhu from heart disease. jHo had been drinking. . ■ The steamer Macgregor has been successfully floated off the rocks at Kawau, and beached at Bon Accord Harbour, where she will be repaired and brought on to Auckland. ..-■••■ • The City North Licensing Conimittee have objected to no less than six hotel licenses being renewed, on the ground of Sunday trading, insufficient accommodation, and not being required m the neighbourhood; ' Wellington, Friday. The manager of the New ;Zealand Loan and Mercantile Agency Company received a 'cable message fr'om 'London', to the effect that the meat by; the s.s. Kuapehu- has arrived m bad condition, id consequence of the .piston of the f reez- " ing niachiriery having broken on thevoyr At an inquest on the body ot the Mr Wading, who. died inthecoacli on the \Svay frum Foxton to Tyellingj;on, the post mortem showe.l that death reshlted from the diseased condition of deceased's heart' jrad flungs, and ; a verdict ', was. returhed m accordance with the medical testimony. ,•-...,.. ,•■ .; . Saturday. The Colonial Insrirance Company received a cable stating that the; barque Lochfiagar arrived ..at London on May 2 »d\ . ; piJNKDiN, Fpday. - ! At the • City ■ Goa rt tb-!day, Sydney 'Knight was sentenced to twol months' f hard laboun for asaaiUting Cliinainan. : The evidence disclosed a shocking state of immorality, the prisoner obliging his wife to Jive with Chinamen. He is well connected ih England, arid is understood to be a remittance man. His: children appeared m court yesterday charged with theiffcy •. v , r .. ■-.. ;