TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 40, 15 July 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

j (ONITEID PRESS ASSOCIATION.) ; r, v i - Auckland, Tuesday. ! On Saturday the Orangemen marched, iin; regalia to the Choral Hall; where' the;' i VerY Grand Chaplain, the Rev. A. • j.. (Smith, preached a sermon. Twenty jfiye lodges; -jvere Represented. . , .Totday; r they ' iinarched with their banner to the Surrey j j Hil^s,; Presbyterian 1 , Church. 'where the 1 ! Rev— . Pott Sonierville .preached., —A* jaoireein the bvenirig was largely" at-/ [tended. ' I Judge Gillies has declined to make an ; order for restoration to the Colonial Injsurance Company .of £50 found upon (Oswald Hertzog oh his return ,»f rom the ■ South, as it had not been 1 shdwn it was ;part of the £150 received from >the Company. ''■■" ■ ':-''"' - I/" | Christohuroh, Tuesday/ j The Farmers' Co-operative Association i have resolved to protest against the , in- ■ crease of insurance rates m the country 'districts, -and,' if their protest is unavailing, the 1 question* of "the Association inisuring country properties will be cohsidevod.^ _ / ■■.'■■';;■■: ■ . ;-■ -.'">' /,; The Orangemen celebrated the 12th" jJuly .by ; a /procession m -full' regalia I through the city to the: Bapti^jk Church. INo 'disturbance occurred; •■■•' '- - : -i V ?S>' ' 'In -anticipation , of . the passing of/ Mr [Btadshaw/s motion,; the -Directprs of /.the IKaiapoiiWpQllen Company hayejdecidjsd. jto wpjk all young persons m their emiplpj;' j fivtf ahd^a-hajf days a week and pay/'tKeny j for' that time, previously they'-got'a half-' jKdlidiiy da Saturdays, and lhaae up: the' time by working half an hour extra ■• >(m • other dayß, and were paiiifpr- six !daya.f i ii-E< 11. i Davis' case was concluded .att |B,3[Q #,]»., when thp prispner was, found, /guilty of administering a drug with inf teni to commit felony". He called several i witnesses for the defence," but titteVly ! failed to disprove the charges. He wks*' ■j sentenced to ten years' .penal'servitude i m j j this case, and<five< years f or.if orgery;' ls> jyearsin all;. s^hen senteucfed, jhej>brpke j down entirely^ and cried bjtterly. ;i There. \ wa^ ,a;.d|sppsitibn;;to hiss, him".whpn/.he I was removed, from the dock. The cnarges. ' o^ifalse pVe^ences against hint naye, been | withdrawri;'- ' ; ////' : ' : y .' i7 ' ;i T, ! . :!i * iK '•'.'' ' - v t--^k- ■ ; ''"i .!";•••■? ,;, iii;'i i.ursi ; , -„. Jnvebcahgill, Tuesday. ! i „;The,.( Southland, Hospital , i after two sittings upon, the Hospital ( -an3 ; G|n'arita'Die v^id Bill, haVe* adopted/an' ex^fhaustive critical report submitted' by' iJ al ! sub-Committee. The' report condemns ! the- Bill m most of, its leading provisions, ] an^jßuggests the^doptxpha; of [*/ uniform* ] system of subsidy such as has prevailed" jhere arid ; worked' satisfactorily f pf past ; years— namOjly, pound fpr pound.on f ! vpl■y iuntOTy c'phtnbuti^^^^ and .management 1 ,6f ;ihstitu|iions by local' comtnittees «lepted j by subscribers; ' ' ' . -r-^ .^ ■■■-,■■ \

i The large- gitoin' stores of •the^Nfctipnal . 1 Mortgage and' Agency Company .-in Mm*! •have Jbeen- totally.. wrecked in.ternally,-;by jthe concrete., blocks, on . whidv stood i the fcolumns which supported floors, \ j>e'ingforceH4°w nwa ' r( i^by the weight of the* prb'ductf s stored; The. l quantity. :\af; igrain was 6600., bags, which \ was said 'tp jbe much under the capacity of the buildjing. Tn e fortf akois.strainted by the'Jbs* of j sthe centre supports; The entire interior»will require reconstructing. The building was lerected about two years ago. The accident occurred betw*en Saturday and Monday, thera being no one on the preJmises. / v ( .]:'■ DuN^piN^ Tuaaday. j . A prisoner named James /U Eastwpod •was sentenced ; to 28 days': bread and Iwater for attempting , to .escape from gaol with a rope :ina : de out ot.blanketi At the Police Court on Monday, Stephen S. Hutchison was, comm.itt;ed .for trUlfoi* having "removed fromtJaveVsnam>.five purifers within four •months of his bankruptcy. A second 'charge of cencealinent of other goods iwill be gone o r nawith riex^week/ 2 ; Mr Thomas Bracken, having received k requisition Milton and Kaitangata requesting him to stand for Bruce, has r^plipd' .that business; , (ghgagemcsnts -^ ,wilii prevent his complying. Mr Hutchison,formerley of Weilirigtpn,' is 'qanf assing ■the district. • : ■/ '■ j .The Gjiy Council last .night disQu.sj9e.ch ,the Charitable Aid and s Xocal 'Finance ' IPowers ■> Bills and strongly ' 'condettined them. It was resolved to, communicate,, witTi" tKe : city l members pointing du| • %ow the proposals would press unfairly on cities. . . r