TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 45, 21 July 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(ckh united ■■press, association. ; Taupo,. Monday. ; Mr Grace, M.H.E., arrived Here from Ohineuiutu on Saturday night. His supporters gave him a warm' reception; He leaves to-day for Wellington, via Napier. • Dunedin, Monday. v The Union Company have abandoned the South Sea'lsland trips, a sufficient number not coming for even the ? smaller trip by thn Penguin. ; : A young man named Calder wood fell ; off the pier at Port Chalmers, and l-wds ' drawn under the sponsors of the Koputai. A young lad named Jac*ksQn: pljicki- :- ly held him up until assistance arrived. Calderwood was mucli exhaused when rescued., . • ' The following team has been chosen to. play against " Wellington : — Full-back —Russell ; three-quarters — Bee, Murray, Boss ; half -backs— Fraser, /Mclntyre ; forwards — Allan. Butterworth,; Beck, Henderson, Lindsay, Martin, Morris, Rattray, Treseder ; emergencies— Bo wden, and Mills. '/• - -CHRiSTCHuncfI, Monday. . The following team have been selected to .play m the interprovincial football match against Wellington .%— Full-back^ — Higgins ; half-backs— Francis, AUar-" ; dyce, McLean ; quarter-backs— Helmbre, F. Fuller, J. Milltdn ;" forwards^-Bes-wick, Bean, Blanchard, Sutherland, Dow, Fooks, B. B'Auvergne, Hbban. - ; . '' :' <• Mr Booth, son of General- Booth of theSalvation Army, couimenced services jin connection , with his, inspection . of i the New Zealand corps m Tiiam-street Hall! •on Saturday afternoon, when 3000 people 1 : were present. Tlie Marshal is a ' fluent speaker, and - evidently better educated ■than the generality of salvation officers. . Timaru, Monday^ ~y.[ ■It was currently' reported m town on Friday afternoon that a patch of. very proiiiisingV alluvial gold land had been: struck at Kakahu. a few miles north of Timaru. ; ■■•-.,• Auckland, Monday^ *■ ; James Dunn, a noted burglar,, who Wa^'* released from Wellington gaofin January ' last after undergoing 14 years for burglary, and who was arrested hore for drunkenness and threatening to draw ;a.. revolver on' the arresting constable, and subsequently charged with robbeiy.or^a watch and chain, but acquitted, was again taken redhanded while robbing the Oxford Hotel, Harding-street by Constable:. Herbert, who had " shadowed ''him suspecting he would be up to his old tricks. Dunn made a desperate resistance, and drew his revolver with which he aimed a' blow at the constable but missed him, and before he could recover- himself the j constable succeeded m wrenching the ' weapon from him. Another struggle took place =and the constable, knowing the desperate character he had to deal with? struck him on the head with a handcuff and partially stunned him. j iHe'''^ijjrtj handcuffed him. In his pocket .AVas* found a very sharp table knife. ; About £2 was taken from the till by Dunn.. The Supreme Court has granted a decree n'si.fop a.divo.'co granted m the case of Emily Burchell v. Arthur Bui'ch ell and co-respondent, Alice Hopkins^ on the ground of adnltt'iy and desortion. Eespondo'rit is a coup. try publican. . A wrestHng match betwopn Eeanyof Duiioflin, niid Micli.-icl Maher of Piinumre, Auckland, took place on Saturday nig-ht at the Theatre Eoyal, for £50 aside and the championship of Auckland. The

b3rland style was won ;by Reanv, who displayed more science than Malier* and waa a stone heavier. There w.ere, three hurulred people present; ;' Roany prqeeods: to Australia to contest ni itches there. Maher admLtted he was fairly beaten. Betting was m. favor of Reany, but not much money changed hands. ■