TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 5, 4 June 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(united press association.) ••!•;-;•;; „;; -. l - Auckland, Wednesday. -■■ t •• : • Colonel Haultain left by the ■ Mana--1 tiourito'riepresent New Zealand .; at the 'welcome bf the New South Wales contingent on their return from the Sou- .; i". At.V feting of the Auckland Prestlib' following resolution vras car- ' rjea unaninjously— The Presbytery, hay- . ivg reason to believe that the Rev. T. "" w" Dunn hus not availed himself of the leave granted by the Presbytery on the Ist {February for six months to visit .Scotland, but that he is still m New Zea- ■■. i i land, . resolve to adjourn till ; the first Wednesday m July, and that, m the •ventof the clerk finding that Mr Dunn • if still m New Zealand, he be" instructed - l! fociteMr Dunn to appear at the said : "meeting ib. July. 'xZ'.s.i Friday. ;; '\' ifHe iEnk Licensing Committee renew- '' ed licenses for one bar m each hotel only .'^ ai&ordereci the removal of all partitions . wi in b,ar,a. :' ..: . ■:• ' „.. ..\ ,; The Archill committee renewed all h/censea.in their district, but intimated »i.i that if elected next year they would close s : all licensed houses. ! 4> " '.^Wklwngton, WedneKdAy. Government have decided to increase - v 'th#«ze of the Exhibition Building, and the tender of the contractors putting up ' .'the present building has been accepted, • the amount being^ear t i.ii.The Thordon Licensing Committee ' renewals to all hotels except ; two, which were adjourned for fourteen ■'■''dftyiii' ' . ' ' ■ '■'"' '".A.nieetiiig of members of the Govern>r>min£ Insurance Company, was held this fc afternoon, when it was unanimously re■olved that the opinion of the policy- > holders^ be obtained as to the desirability " "pf eataSUshing local boards! At a meet' ing of iHe poiicy-holders to be held on , the 27th instant, policy-holders will bo ' - aitlowed tlie privilege of visiting by ■ ; pwi>xy, and arrangements are beiug •', waAe^tp supply them with the necessary ' ';' „>rhe government intend asking a com•.'.jnij^e of citizens to ; undertake the man- ; v ajjement of the ., Wellington Hospital, .impending legislation on the subject of hospitable *nd charitable aid. Bpoth'fl temperance mission opens tomorrow night. i „ Thebalan'ce-sheet of the Island Bay irt f^rlu Company ihowsa^redit of 4-218. . , Thursdoy. The Te Aro Licensing Commiitee re- ?! aSaised' all liofenses^to I^l o'clock. Two ' '■ apphcatibns^ere'adjbarned to enable aljiOtefations to bamade. . . militia officers who had their commissions cancelled, are to be rei f »lac»d on the retired .hst from which "'■ they may qualify for active list if desirable. V ■"■'.'.'.'. Th« body of a man has been discovered near the refrigerating works, this mornin". It is not yet identified, but it is believed to be that of a fireman beldn»ing to the steamer Tui. ■■■-■. Davis, concerned m the jewellery robbery, has been remanded till to-mor-Dunkdin, Wednesday. At the meeting of the Land Board the question of the Benniore Bun came up a^aioi Mr Haggit submitting an opinion . that the Board had no power to enter '•■■»"•• into an'inquiry, owing to the run being a University Endowment, and, even if .';■■ they had the power to hold and they found the Land Acts were being evaded, • -they could do nothing by way of for'feitxad.-, : . r '■/.-, Cheistcuhech, Thursday. J. Munford, was accidentally shot -'■■■ while out rabbit shooting. He died m the hospital yesterday, - ' A little boy named Brookes, of Stalbans, was bitten by a dog, a few days '* : ftgo, ana died from its effects yesterday.