TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 30, 3 July 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

j (PER :UNITED- PRESS ASSOOIATIdWi' 1 |". :ij*3k Auc&lanw,? TliuWtjAjr^; ' | At the annual meeting of .the shareholders of iihe Now J Zealand, Jjpaii * and Mercantile ''Agency "the"'HoilV 3". Wi^liagJsbn a'nd;|ilr G. B.^wen \Yer>jr^-h e,le'cte*d colonial directors. f ] The man 'Webster was to-day charged with the mprjß;se^ous offence, of;rape^;instead of indecent assault. '■■>.* '• j The Liberal Association has passed resolutions adverse to further immigration ..■ cjr increased C atoms taxation, but favoi'f ejd a land tax, and also passed a resoluUion m favor of the electoral roll being the basis for voting for "Licensing Coinvmittees. | The . charge of arson against Louis vl^iire came oii tb-day Smith, *E.M. It laisted^' all day and into., night. The case was ultimately dismissed, .the Magistrate stating that tliere.Was'", nio prim'a facie case, or even ? "presumption of one. ' ',;■ r ! Kumara, Thursday. | Henry c»f Ma^sfi|ld]and party, shortly after proceeding to work ill his claim at (Larrikins this imornirig, wjas killed by a huge stone crushing him in^ -tlje 7 jshest. ,He- s was a cnatiVe iefs j DnrhamTand his age was about thirtyfive, -(ioov;- ill\h. ( '\J'X'\-) ■ j Dtjnediv, Thursday. jA'^thfet morning's; ineeiingo'f the-Edu-'^ cation institute, ,the< question ,w,as dißcussedi'Svlienf'tniai ' fdllbWmg ■ 'moiifpn, prpp^p^eji;, , ,by., -, Professor t .McJ3f fjgQ|, '-, was carried :— ".TKat, inthe opinion of tb|s institution, tlle^n'eed which' has found subh universal expression under the demand for rudimentary l technioat v £raining ]ml our primary schools, really means" that, under our^national scheme of'education, the children are urged prematurely jinto the learing of subjects too abstract tLV their years,and too many of them, to c grevious neglect of a training of eir senses and muscles by such; means i'a's object lessons arid drawing,.systema;liicklly taught.";.-^- ; -, -'* • |n the Polic Court Hutchison was remanded for a weekend' evidence being tal|en. He was admitted -to bail.