TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 47, 23 July 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(PER UNITED PftRSS ASSOCIATION. Dunedin, Wednesday. T The Mayor declined to grant a half - holiday on the occasion of the Interpro--viucial Football Match against Wellington, but most of the large business places have been waited upon and agreed to ' close. The match is expected to be a very close one, and the visitors are now, if anything, the favourites. - - - A y.oung man named Edward Chapman was charged at the Police Court by his father with attempted suicide, and remanded. He was only twenty years of age, and had "attempted suicide with a penknife. A Volunteer, for being absent without leave from a Government parade, notice of which was given at the previous parade, was fined 10s and costs. An application was made to the Judge yesterday m the totalisator dispute case, to have plaintiff's claim amended so as to show the time and place where the slanders wore uttered. The application was granted. CHRiSTCiivncH, Wednesday. Telegrams have been received from Mr J. Holmes, M.H.E., stating that Sir Julius Yogel, m accordance with the request of the Farmers' Co-operative Association of Canterbury, has promised to insert a clause m the' Insurance Cdmipanics Bill shortly to be introduced, which will enable mutual insurance associations to be established, having smaller capital than that at present suggested namely, £500,000. The Co-operatiye Association are moving m the matter m consequence of the Insurance Agents' Association having; increased the rates outside the principle towns of Canterbury. At a meeting of shareholders on Tuesday night it was resolved to wind up the Norfch'Creek Gold Mining Company, m the Wilberforce district. The new mining manager has reported the gold could only be traced m one reef, which is only -five inches thick instead of five foet, as^ previously reported. About £2500 has been been spent m connection with the Company.. . ; ; . ,-. : = :-;; Captain Francis, formerly of, the City Guards, who has been appointed Adjutant to the South Canterbury Batta- ■ Han, was presented with an illuminated ■ address by his old comrades on Monday night. An' eight-roomed house at "Rangiora, owned and occupied by Mr J. Donovan, was burnt down this morning. It was 1 insured m the Colonial Office, for £300, aid the -furniture, of which ilO- worth was saved, m the same office for £130. The building was a very old one, a por tion of it having been Jbuilt and occupied by the late Mr Crosbie Ward, who," with his brother, Mr Hamilton Ward, resided there for many years. The statue to 'he erected to the late Mr W. S. Moorhouse is on board the Ruape- ■ hu, which is expected m Lyttelton on Thursday or Friday. / ■; ; i : j r Nelson, Wednesday At the Chamber of Commerce yesterday the following resolution wae carried unanimously :—•' That it is inexpedient that the San Francisco mail ;seryice be discontinued, provided that favorable arrangements can be made by the Government for its continuance, and that America bears a fair proportion of its cost." ; ; - - Auckland; Wednesday^ 1 : The Zealatidia sailed yesterday'afternoon. She! had 10 boxes of spscie; valued at £50,000, shipped from Sydney by the Bank of Australasia, consigned to -the Calif ornian Bank at San .Francisco. Among the passengers were .Detectives. Tracey and Badger, m charge of Maxwell,' charged with the murder of Preller at St. Louis. ..... Great reductions are being made'iri the railway workshops. About fifty hands have been discharged during the last few weeks. ■ ' The New Zealand Smelting Company, recently formed to work the Lamonte ore-saving process, received 110 packages of machinery from Sydney, per,' Zealandia. They are now m possession of their full plant. ... . ; The Northern Steamship Company have entered a claim for £1466 damages, against Stone Brothers, re the collision' hetweeu the Herald and tha Gairloch. The action will bs delehded. A meeting of the Committee of the Chamber of Commerce was held to-day to consider the question of the extension of the San Francisco mail, service, when a series of resolutions were 'framed and adopted for submission .to a special meeting of the Chamber convened for to-mor-row. ,The ; local Press condemns the proposal to terminate the service. Tfiejj Herald says.: " We. have, every confidence that sensible members of Parliament will not allow a wrong to "be warttqnly on the Colony merely fb. gratify a Wellington grudge::. against': Auckland, but prompt action -and strong representation on the subject are, nevertheless, indispensable to prevent the happening of what could only be regarded as a public misfortune." ; The Supreme Court refused a new trial m the case of Northe v. Tramway Company, m which the jury awarded £800 damages for the loss of a foot. The ap^ plication was made, on the ground that the damages were excessive. , Wellington, Wednesday. In tlie House of Representatives Mr Stutter gave notice that when the House went into Committee to consider the proposal for the San Francisco mail subsidy he would move as an amendment, " That the figures and words £30,000 be struck out with the view of inserting the following figures and words, ' that the Postmaster-General will pay to the contracting party at the following rates :— Letters, 12s per Vh ; packets, Is per lb ; newspapers, 6d per lb.' "