TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 24, 26 June 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(rER UNITED PftESS ASSOCIATION. Duvediv, Wednesday. At the nnminl meeting of the Agricultural and Pastoral Association a satisfactory report was presented, a ballanee of £211 remaining 1 over from last show. There has been expended on the new ground £3248, or at the rate of £190 per acre. An effort is to be made to get the freehol-i of the ground from Government. Auckland, Wednesday. The Sandfly arrived to day from Tonga. Everything was quiet when she left. The religious disputes had been settled by almost all the people going over to tlw Free Cnurch. Louis Dare, draper, at whose premises the Victoria-street fire originated a month ago, was arrested this afternoon on a charge of setting, lire to the premises with interest to defraud the Colonial liisur.tuce Company. Proceedings were taken by the police, not by the Insurance Companies interested. Ohristchurch, Wednesday. The Admiralty have supplied the New Zealand Company's R M.S. Aorangi with a quick firing six-pounder gun of new pattern. It is capable of discharging ten or twelve rounds of shut per minute. This class of gun is chiefly intended rs defence ag.iiusl torpedo boats, and is fitted on the upper deck or, if necessary, m the rigging. The official declaration of the result of (the Southern Maori 'election was made at Kaiapoi to-day. The numbers polled wore the same as previously telegraphed and Tamati Pratt was declared duly elected. Henrani Paratini protested against the validity of the election, on the ground tliat the Returning Officer had failed to give the -number of vote's polled for each candidate at the various gaz ttod polling places. Iv theeveniug a public dinner was given at the pah, and attended by a number of Maoris and Europeans. The lonic, which leaves at midnight for London, via NapiVr, takes 5734 carcases of mutton and 253 quarters of beef trom the Belfast Freezing Works.