TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 10, 10 June 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

•(UNIIKD BRZSS ASSOCIATION ..) . Blenheijj, Monday. • Tho billiard-room and skittle alley of the Halfway-house. Hotel, Kaiiuna Valley, was destroyed by fire early on Snaday morning;, cause unknown. Tha building and contents were insured m tho Xoyal f or £2SC. '■■'). The Blenheim ; branch of th 9 Amalgamated. Carpenters and Joiners'. Trade Society was, started on Saturday . night: The building trade is very brisk here, 1 and the Society Is likely to enrei numerous meabers. : .■ . „., • A heavy north-west gale blew here during Saturday night. Very heavy rain fcas Bet m, and the rivers are riairig !: rapidly. Gbbymouth, Monday. There was- an exceedingly heavy rainfall this iAorriing for several hours. The. river is very high, with' rapid current. The weather ia stiil unsettled and threatening. Two vessels are outside ; one is the b.b. dliaa; No shipping to-day. AncKLANi^ Monday. Mr Robert Paddisonj.. while riding across a tidal oreek at the Grreat Barrier, . was thrown by his horse and kicked m the f ace, andwhile stunned and unconscious he was drowned. • , An infant female child of James and Ellen $iley, To Awamutu, was accidentally .suffocated by the bedclothes while sleeping with its mother. Wetere, a Native, aged 15, while shoot- ; jng pigeons at Ruapekapeka, shot himself.;. It is supposed that he committed suicide, &8 the, muzzle of the gun was m his taouth. The discharge caused instant death. Kb companions were at sortie distanceat the time. .• . . . . ; . Du^edin/ Mondaf. '.. The Waimea Plains Railway Company's earnings are £538 over those : of last year. The Directors state that they are hot prepared. to sell to. the Colony, except at its certified cost. In future guar.anteed, interest will be available fov distribution to shareholders. • : ' Jir Macandrew intends to move at th<v University Council that three model £ ar-uas: he established, one m the Northern, one i,n r the Centre, and one m the Sonth Western districts. There was a large amount of accumulated r bankruptcy business to-day, some twenty 'five case 3 having been dealt with. It was stated that steps were likely to be taken to annul the bankruptcy of David Froudfoot. Timabu, Monday. The annual licensing meeting was held to-day. ' Renewals were granted \n all cases but ona, which is adionrned for 2t days. .The police report is good, with .the: -exception of two Tjoijhbb. One (the Royal) is to be considerably added to and imp coved. 'To enable this, to be done thf application was adjourned. The other (the Lynwood) is to be entirely rebuilt. Both are amongst the oldest buildings m the town. The hour of closing m all cases is 11 p.m. :■■• itSASTSRXQN* Monday. A Maori named Watene Haenga was ■ committed for trial to-day on a charge of stealing a watch from Denie Bogan on 'September last. The evidence was to the ej&ct^'ihat Hogan was asleep when Baeriga pulled the watch away, breaking the chain. !wo months later he gave it as security for money lent Chbistchurch, Monday, Mr T. Pavitt, the Industrial . Association's delegate to the South Sea Islands, embarked on the Janet Nicoll, which sailed for Wellington to-d&y. A number of cpmmercial gentlemen saw him off. The Industrial Association have given him exhaustive, instructions as to the inquiries he is to make respecting the pos- i sibility o5 tr&de with the Islands. Mr John Tinline, o5 Amuri, who went florae m the Tongarirc, left £1000 with j Hr-Gk Harper, of Christchurcfe, and ] £1200 with Mr Sharp, of Nelson, to be j deroted towards_th3 maintenance o;f thrge j scholarships. in connection with English literature. : '•' ■ .' T^a fatal accidents are reported fros* ; the northern dietrict. An old man named ]RSdiDund Bobinson was run over by a horte and buggy pear Rangiora on Sature'ay nij?ht, and died shortly after. The earae evening, M 133 Wright, daughter of Mrs Bobert Wright, was thrown iroia a buggy on the Road from Obaka to Kfciapoi. She never regained consciousness and died m a few hours. . Lateb. At the inquest on the body of Edmund \ Ro.biD.s.on, ah old man: of 70,. who vr&s knocked down by a buggy near Rangiora on Saturday,., the evidence ; showed 'that O. 0. W. Chinnery, ,IP,, Ohinnery, ?nd Seorgo Backr^an, three young men vrho were driving m ihe buggy, placed tb« ■ old xaan, who "wae rnsoocicle, on the side of the voad, where a fcorsexaari could have ridden over him. and thea wont .on j ixro miles to Eangiqra to inform the. polico. Tkey took the horfee out of toe buggy, and one of then*' wect to get hi? hair out before taking any steps to get relief to? the sufferer. The iri^kt ttss very dark and windy, and considerable time elapsed before they returned to t.he tjpot >rith a constable and drova the sufferer to a doctor. The medical evidence showed that deceased died from longstanding congestion of the lunga, brought to & climax by tho ghock of the accident. Th 6 three young men were severel;/ csnsurod by the Coroner and the jury for their inhuman conduct m leaving the old man as they had done: