TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 23, 25 June 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per united Press association. Auckland, Tuesday. Captain Munro, of the barque Altair, was fined ±'50 and costs for making a false declaration m a manifest to the Customs. A Maori named Te Kuni accidently shot himself wiiile cleaning out a loaded gun. He did uot know it it was loaded, and, after taking off the stock, put the end of the barrel m the fire and the muzzle m his mouth to blow the dirt out. Wednesday. A son of Captain McGillevray, while playing football on Saturday, met with injuries which produced death from strangulated hernia. He was nine years old. Timaru, Tuesday, At the Magistrate's Court to-day, Jane Costegan, plaintiff m the late breach of premise case, was ordered to pay M 25 security for. keeping the peace, especially m regard to the defendant Douglas. "■■ . Dunedin, Tuesday. Intelligence has been received hereof the drowning, while on his passage Home, on lGth March, of Mr John Gray, a well-known resident of the city. In a football match, Lawyers v. Uni versity, the lawyers won by two points. Professor Brown played with the University. The Choral Society was stated, at its . annual meeting, to be i'24o m debt. The local insurance companies are opposed to the clause of the Insurance Bill providing for a deposit ot £"20,000 with the Trustee, and are urging the with-, drawalofthat portion. A fine of £1 was inflicted on an employer m a case where a message -boy, for his own amusement, went to work on a Saturday afternoon. Ohristchurch, Tuesday. A concert given m the Theatre Eoyal to-night m aid of the funds of the Jewish synagogue was an immense success,, every part, of the house being crowded. The Drainage Bpard have abnegated their position as a District Local Board of Health, and have delegated their powers m this capacity to the various local bodies within the district. A proposal to ask Government to place £1000 on the Supplementary Estimates to relieve the drainage ratepayers from their financial difficulties was negatived. At the Magistrate's Court this rnorninss WiUiam Mohr and Alexander Frederick Douglas were committed to trial on a charge of assaulting an old man named Tregesson, on the Madrasstreet Eailway Bridge at midnight on Saturday, , and robbing him of a parcel containing a suit of clothes. Pharoah Douglas who was accused of being concerned m the affair, was discharged. New Plymouth, Wednesday. Bob Erangi, a well-known chief on the West Coast, died on Saturday last, aged 63 years. He was always friendly to Europeans, and during the war acted as guide to the troops. He was also a native assessor. When a young man he went »>ith Mr W. Carrington to survey Te Aro (Wellington), and was also with the surveyors at Port Cooper. The late Sir Donald McLean thought a great deal or. him m the early days. He was m the native police force under McLean.