TELEGEAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 48, 24 July 1885, Page 4

TELEGEAMS.

(pee united press association. '■ Beefton, Thursday.' A bonfire, torchlight procession, ari{l display of fireworks took place to\rijglit. to celebrate the probable successful- float ing of the.;Easfc.and West Goasfr> : and Nelson railway und ertaking. ;;.;■- --,....■ Auckland, Thursday.. The Auckland .Mercantile Association arc sending a. petition toParliameutpraying that foreign-owned vessels ba.prohibited from trading on the New Zealand coast ; also, that exemption certificates should be made general; and that lighthouse dues, instead of: being paid each voyage, should be made an annual charge, payable at any one. port of the Colony. • ■-.'.. : .y Christchuuch, Thursday. During the Salvation Army procession,' headed by Marshall Booth, last night, a man named Dale, on horseback, endeavored to ■ break through the ranks. A disturbance ensued, and Dale was a r y ted by Constable Cullen, wljo was hootel and severely assaulted 'by a number o "larrikins. Dale was lodged m giol, and two of the ringleaders m the assault on the coustable were ; rrested. Blenheim, Thursday, ■ A singular charge pf stealing a £5 not j

. ' '. i ' •••■: » - at the Grovetown Hotel was investigated at the Besident Magistrate's' Court today. The accused William. Fisher, who was employed at the hotel, ; is stated, ta have stolen if out of the prosecutor's bedroom on Monday night. The landlord of . the- hotel, suspecting accused, succeeded by threats and promises of money by inducing him to admit the theft and to take the landlord to a telegraph pole m the high road, at the foot, of which accuse! pickel up and handed him a match box containing" the note. The prosecutor, a man named Fiddler, was so drunk and • badly behaved m Court that Mr Allen, R.M. declined to take his evidence, and accused was remanded till Friday. >■"• : Haweka, Thursday. At a large meeting of settlers here yesterday a resolution was carried by a large majority in' favor. of erecting meat tinning works m Hawera County. The. New Plymouth, people are to be asked to ' co operate. A deputation waited on Mr Hankey, District Railway Manager, with a view to the revision of the railway charges on stock, most of which are at present driven by road./ The -deputation estimated the surplus sheep available yearly at 120,000, and the cattle at 15,000. ■ ■ ' Bsisbane, Thursday, j.A further official, visit was tnade to tho South Pacific Oil AVo'rks on Monday, last. Mr Booth (R<M.) and others accompanied ■'the Directors. The indications were .similar to those previously obtained. Fifteen or .twenty leet were bored ;and cleaned m the presence of the party. The drill is 'still working m the same formation, with plentiful indications of oil.