TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 24, 26 June 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

- '■' (UNITED Plf 88 ASSOCIATION.) v ; -... *• Auckland, Wednesday. - •■ ; "-The Aoraiigi has arrived from London. One hundred passengers remain m Auckland, while 200 proceed south by the consisting of cabin passengers arid Government immigrants. * : Wellington, Thursday. i : .;. Captain .Kennedy, ship's husband at /.Wellington to the Union Company, as- " Bumea command of the Te Anauto-mor-i, rowi. ; The policy-holders of the Government '^ujtnirdce m Nelson passed a resolution the establishment of local boards, ..not m favor of it as previously telegraphed. The Gisborne Harbour Board have * accepted modified tenders of the Union Bank for floating their £200,000 loan. Christchurch, Thursday An inquest was held at Bangiora to- "• day aa to the origin of a fire at Southbroolc, whereby the house and furnitnre of W. A. Graham were destroyed. The inquiry waR held at the instance of the London and Lancashire Insurance Company, with «»hich the property was inf insured. The jury returned a verdict that the premises had been wilfully set on fire by some person or persons unknown. Brepton, Friday. Jas. Fletcher, a well-known West > Coast carrier left here at midday yesterday for Greytnouth with a seven horse .team. At four m the afternoon a man " 'riding m the same direction found Flet- * 'cher dying m the wheel way of the road with a broken leg. A cart went out . from Reeftoh to bring him m, but he died on the journey. He was conscious 'when found and explained that he fell -off- the box and the waggon wheels pas- ' -ised over the small of his back. Deceased' is widely known m the.colony and leaves a wife and family m Greymouth.