TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 29, 2 July 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

I (Mr uiliTEii press' issooiATioN.-'! ■■ ■ Auckland, Wednesday.; •" J Thgfie bus been forwarded, to Wellington, ilie ;firs,t instalment' of a petition m . favor b'f'protiibiting barmaids. One p'e'ti-'. tion, sent to Mr Peacock, contains -63 1T>' njaines of adult persons. The second petition, to' the ; Hbttf H. Chamberlain, con-; tains 6279 'names.- .!.•.,....,•. :•, >' j lu-' '-jfoxEjyixf Wednesday. ; ; A thir£een : siaUed stable, 'men's' liuf,;'a., fourteen stalled dow's Shed, engine 'sJiedJ ' aiid four Horses; M th'e- property 'of -M-r james Shand, were burned oh the 23fdf ibstant. The value ofjtji'e property ..wr^S £4(KX andtit^as insured rfpr.£2sorini the : 'Umott' Offibe: ■ - ; - v .f ; l ) | CHinsTdfeEURCHj WeHhfesday. f I At a 6f those f kvo'rable ? to protection held to-night ;? a resolution ■was ujnaniinously carried approving, as a step iQ the right direction, the action of Government m revising, the tariff so aa to encourage colonial' industries and productions. ( 1 The llakaia-Ashburton Forks Railway Company, met to-day, and authoi'isod the '\Directors to make ssch arrangements as they may thinkvfit.for the saleto Govern"naent of the Company's -property, subject tp approval of Parliament. ; The annual report showed that the income ; e?cee4s» 4631)2, or'£l^99 m excess" & wofking'ei- - ; epcpeiiaes. '^, j A case of some importance as affecting the interpretation of the ne\v Bankruptcy ilet with regard .to frVudulent/pr^tejrence ■\tas heard before Mr Justice Johnston to day. J. Morgan, a bankrupt' hoiielkeeper, had made a. ( payment of £100 to Messrs ■fincWft. 'ah ; d Co;, -'creditor's,^^bout %ts* months bef ore his bankruptcy. . ,The ( offtcial AWsighee ; contended Uhat ' under clause 2G, of the Amendment Act, 1884, this 1 aMtmnted toa f raudulentfpraferenQe,' , Sis Honor found that , the payment had riot beeii voluntary on the' debtoi^s' I ' pliVt, liu^ithei regult- 'of pressure by thp credi-T tors, and proper effect could riofi be given t ) the words of the 'section unless it was a voluntaay ipajfinent. , The ,Ofocial As- » gnee's motion to declare the' payment Void was. refused. • - - ■■•••■• •■■■■■ •■••--• 1 Ashbttkton, Wednesday. | At a special meeting of the AEjhburton iigricultural and Pastoral,, Association \ yesterday, the following resolution waß 'carried : — " That' it is desirable} 7 m the /.opinion of this; meeting, that dire'ctisteam should bes . opened up with Queensland ; tKat tlie Soufh Island be invited far the purpose of obtaining from Government a subsidj' for a direct steamer between New Zealancl points;- and Queensland." .'