TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 51, 29 July 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

.:-;(p^K;.wiTfi©;p^^ ::^sociiTio^. : ; :i"- . •-.■; V 'eiißiSTieHiKw^^ Tuesday/ i At, thf inquesjb oh of. Jtfre Hannah^.Cox, r who. die4';^udae^yi pa 5 Saturday, it appeared that death Tiad .re-' .sulted'from apoplexy,' ;and.^a, r yer<iict was. retijnied'^coidiqglyV^, .\,'','!"''.;j. '''[]'.. ','v? V^,' A; petition favorable to East and- West Coast Railway proposals has received 500 signatures of leading merchants and ; a^riciilt.^il : -mciiJ i \). -:^>v'. .=i - C ■ '. -••.:i^"/' ■ v Tue)ida#^ : Tbe^ftjr.Couacil, last' night,;%regolyeH' to -ofpljise .the Ck^rifeble -Aid JBU|;; and Couu'paior : Sp^d^ing was :• to interview menabers it"- *Weiiingtonj while there. ~" w "-;"-■ f ■-,-!:. ■ The;;Jollowing resolutio.ns .was passed by itlie^.Ghiitobet xif Gpmmeice" at^its mfeeting jresferday^: — (1^ v That it 'does iiot appear desirable to put an end to the : San PranciscbAei:vice,:but intKe opinion of this Chamber, the price proposed to be paid is too high, .^nfl, ought febe reduced !to mail matter pnly ; also " that! itV. shpnld jnot be- for a. longer term than tnreej ; years. :r-iFufther,> that the Chamber" c*-? I pifedses, itsstrongdisapprQval of prohibiting postage via Brindisi, established by ; the- jSovernmenfe -<^}i -That thiajGhanl^ hers expresses its strong disapproval of the proposal by G;overnment to transfer the ddck tr.ustfrbni the ' Harbor ;Board/ j That this. Cliamberdosires to place on recordiitai strong objection to ' the ; extraordinary-, concessions to be; granted to Mr Meiggs, and to enter its emphatic protest against any alteration 1 of the Bast and' , West Coast Bailway Act, 1884, [or. of the already entered into for the contstruction heire;* which' would m 'any .way L .directly -6r indirectly pledge ;'the ; revenue '. of the -Colony, either by : further concessions of land, or joy a guarantee i; of/ m Iterest, or. which^.wpuld.in any way jm posei anyihurdeo. on tiie.publiQ 'exchequer. Mr Donald E'eid moved tte.r^wayw^plutions. :.:,■■;.•• : U'*;: \ r •*■;-.;■-■•'*', . [John McGallaghdn, a young' man "aged M 5 : years, wasj thrown;' .from hig horse wfiile riding over theinssoks.rieaar'Cambrian's, and died a'few-hqurs" afterwards. ... Geet^outh, Tuesday. The 57estport Coal>Cpmpanyihave-re-sumed.; the work ;:of:('smkfegthev: new shafi; ih^^ftUsep/JvEaiiieii. - - yv/ /^ :i has received consciousness,; and, will Kkelyi: survive. •.Wakeham •has; Be.ee, niremapdedk:! /'7 'i' •* ■ ■-'■}' ■-*; :Maybr Waddel hasleft for "Wellington. iAr petition of the uneuiplbyedf bearing .2QO. ;signaiaire& Was leflT- atj : the- vCKy Gp,uncil<)fficiea i to^ay tpbe -forwarded to; him. .. '.. ... . „.'.. . "-. . James Dunn, ex burglar, has been comjhUtted if or burglary.-: ' : . Mr "WiL. Bees addressed a public ' meeting on, his scheme the co-opera--tion of land^labpr and capital;. : Arresblu-' tion was carried, that; the imeeting was of opinion that the New Zealand Co-opera-tive Land and Labor Company (Limited) •was founded .upbn" sound principles, and 'was Worthy of public tsuppofctJ .' • : ! •■' , The Wajkato Cheese :and Bacon /Fac-v tpry's Report sho\ys. alpsspf £222 for. the year. ■: Seven thousarid fpur hundred and ' forty -seven'.poidnds ; of cheese was made m, that^ 'period. ■ .' „ . ! * l p : i '■ . Oi?UNAKEi Tqesday; ■ Tlie Lighter C6napjuiy*s '• boat was : swamped while landing goods fromthe^ Saur?ki. The ; .'was caused^ through' the^^ ihco^efency^6lfjhe^ian3B7 omplpyedby .the Lighter^ Compaoy^ The business people h§re are highly^ihcensed: with the Company for disagreeing with the old crew, who never had an accident. : : NiPIBB, Tuesdriy. , M. B. Miller's annual statistics show that during the year ending 30th June. 275,497 sheep were exported, including 106,0Q0 frozen. The .number pf, sheep remaining m the province is ! 2,550,833; and the. export of wool i3,69§,0001b5> These; are little more than -double the number exported ten years, ago; the number exported during the decade being 2,000,006; : These twd and a T half million sheep|ai*e carried on less than two nijlIlionabres, of which only, one -third has been improved by artifical grasses The. increase m wool exported was 150,0001bs oyer previous years, but the increased valjieiwas only £3275.. Total value of exports, '£745,174, being £31 per head' of the population, including Maprisj who number about one-fifth of the total population fcf 23,995. : "'