TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 11, 11 June 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(united press association.) I Auckland, Wednesday. 1 William Bellinghain, carpenter, at Ponsonby, got out of bed last midnight, and jumped down a well. His wife missing him gave the alarm, and soiiie neighbors grappled him up, but'he wjas dead. • He leaves two children, three years of age. He got a blow on the head lately, and has been desponding, and eccentrici A coroner' 6 jury brought m a verdict, of found drowned- i The Chamber of Commerce has appointed Mr John L. Kelly,, sub-editor of the Star, as delegate to report on the trade with the South Sea Islands.. He loaves by tho steamer Janet Nicoll on Thursday the 18th. \" ' D&NEIMN, Monrl;i)-. : At the meeting of the Ofca'go Institute, it was resolved to draw the attention 'of the Government to the recent wholesale deportation of Tuatura lizards which' has taken place from the Colony, and sug- ■ gest 'that 'steps be taken to preserve them. \ The police have received information that the body of a man, supposed to be a swagger, was discovered close to the church, at Lovell's Flat. It is not known whether or not he died from exposure. ••"-' '. Under date 29th May the Melbourne ;X : ?'Srttß .phfelished the* folio wing V "cable I message regarding the scheme recently," proposed by Sir Julius Yogel for leading I smalFsutris -to farmers Wlow ratejof interest : — " It is strongly condemned by the city authorities, and if carriedofut wilEproljTably cause '""■ & frup.turei withTthe t agency by which tho financial arrangements of the Colony are at present dr- ! ranged." 1 v/ ! '^ I '- x- Jc r i At the Queenstown Police Court, Ban-' of the Southland Acclimatisation Society, was 1 'fined • i's and costs for assaulting a ranger of thei Queenstown Society, who detected him and Tanner, of Invercargill, poaching m the lake. The information against the, latter was : dismissed on a teohnii-al ground, but a fresh information has been laid.

Ghristchurch, Tuesday. ; William McGregor, a laborer, was today committed for trial on a. ohargeiof indecently assaulting a girl under j.l years of age. , , , . , , ! At the Resident Magistrate's Conrt today, John Christophers Cuff, a half-cast Australian Native, was brought; up charged with. uttering a forged note at Invercargill, m 1881. He was only just fit to leave the Hospital, where he has been forsoma months m consequence of injuries he sustained from exposure when he escaped, from custody at Waiau some months ago. He had lost an arm, Mood poisoning Jiavirig rendered amputation necessary, and at one time there were little hopes of his life. The prosecutor j and the police did not offer any evidence, j as the man had been punished enough by his suffering, and the Bench allowed the charge to be withdrawn. Mr Taylor, a member of the Drainage Board, &aye notice at the Board's meeting to-night that he will move to apply to the Colonial Secretary to place i-10,000 on the Supplementary Estimates to aitl the Board m its present embarrassed position. He considers that the expenditure incurred on drainage works has saved many lives, which taking £18 at the cost of each immigrant, he estimated at .£40,000. This was one of the cases contemplated by the Treasurer when he argued m the debate on . the District Railways Purchasing Bill m lavor of relieving ratepayers under certain circumstances. The Waimakariri was m heavy fresh today. It is thought that extensive additional repairs will have to be made to the Northern railway line, as the river on either side of -the bridge is scouring out the embankment very fast. Timaru; Tuesday. The; Supreme Court criminal sessions opened to-day before the. Honor Mr Justice Johnston, There; were six oases— ; one of attempted. suicide, one of attemp- ■ ted murder, and one ot murder, the others being forgery, larceny arid embezzlement. Thomas Wood, charged with, attempted suicide by throwing himself m front of a train on tho 2nd May; pleaded guilty, but urged that he had ,been drink: ' ing, and gone wrong m the head. Witnesses gave him a good character otherwise, and he was discharged on his own recognisance of .£SO to come, up for sentence. P. Ryan pleaded guilty of larceny, and housebreaking (three charges) and. was sentenced to seven yoarsAhard labor,' the sentences to run ''concurrently ; George Kahu (a Native), . charged with forgery and uttering was found guilty of ; uttering only and \vas .sentenced tb:six months' -imprisonment! Alfred Fisher 'pleaded -i guilty to embezzlement? (three' charges) and *vas sentenced to itwelvo. months' imprisonment. "•

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