TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 30, 3 July 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAPHIC.

("UNITED PRESB ASSOCIATION.) Thames, Thursday. A fire broke out at 4.30 this morning m the grocery store of Moars and Co. The firo had a good hold bafore it was discovered, but the firo brigades were promptly on the spot, and saved tbe suirounding stores. Wellington, Thursday. A lumper flamed Thomas Scott fell down dead to-night whilst working on the Aorangi. The cause was heart disease. He 4s supposed to have a wife at Port Chalmers. " * A man found . m the harbour to-day has been indentified as John Scranton a ganger on the railway at Masterton. Benjamin Th'atchor, a boarding-house keener at the railway works at Pukeau on the Wellington-Matiawatu line was fined £20 and costs for sly-grog selling. Moody was scratched for all: his engagements at the Wellington' Steeplechase Meeting at 4 p.m. yesterday. ' Ddnkdin, Thnrjiday. At this morning's meetine; of the Education Institute, : the" qudstipn of technical education was discussed, when the following motion, propoaed' by Professor Morgan, was ; carried :-J-rThat m the opinion of this Institution the need which has found such universal express sion under the demand for rudimentary technical. training in i our primary schools, really mean's that by our national scheme of education, the children are urged prematurely into the learning of subjects too abstract for their years, and too many of them to the greviqus neglect of a systematic training ot their. senses ond muscles by such moans or object lessons, and'drawing riysleih taught. '..."., Christohukch, Thursday. Just about 10 o'clock -last night an elderly man named 'William Watt died suddenly at the Plough Hotel, Rangiora. He was a single man, and about 40 years of age. . :■ • - • . The Christchurch Gold Mining Company, which has been formed for the purpose' of.mimng the quartz reefs at Browning's PassViiear the head of the Wilberforce,a. branch of othe Eakaia river, has been successfully floated here. "The New-Zealand Shipping Condpany . have received a telegram- from Hobart, announcing-; the ''arrival there' of -\tlie 1 Riniutaka at 11 a.m; "to-day. She will probably leave: to-day; for AuckUmd.. ■:■-..