TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 53, 31 July 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(per jnited press, association^' j • Auckland, Thursday! ;•• Franz Holt has been arrested at Hvlensville on a charge of etnb zzlemeßtv i 8 Secretary of tin- Qourt&tar o£|leleuß..; vyille Lod«ejof Fbrestersij. ' f V ■:'*':■ c The Harbor Board, ou the casting vote of the Chairman, has adopted the re commendation of the Finance Committee A Bill will be introduced into parliament authorising the Board to raise a loan of .£500,000 ; and the loan of \ 1871 of £30,000 is to; be regarded as a; first issue. • A i number of fruiteters, &c, 'haye been; fined Is each and costs for Sunday trading. • - . ■ ''-- A prosecution has been instituted for soiling the Rationalist m the streets on (Sunday. .'* . "• ■• '■'■ A new trial has been, refusecl m. . >th&, case of libel, Elliott .v.* : Hancock: ' ; " ■ , Auckland Coursing Club's Puppy Match, limited to twenty dogs, "for tHe vice-PiesMeut's cup, was run off at Plhmpton Park to-day." The coursiirjj was much better than the first tnntcli for the Presidents cup. In the' final run Off Mr Watson's Patent beat Mr'y Abbot's Ebonite, and won the prize cup' and £30. Ebonite the runner, up, takws £17, Faugh-a-Ballah and Heather Bjell £3 10s each. A protest was lodged" against Patent, winuer of the Cup, on the -ground that he _wm not. a puppy. The protest has not yet been decided ..-.!;;. [ '*I)uNEDiNi-Thursda)'; * ; At the half-yeaYly meeting of the Colonial Bank, the report and balancesheet (already telegraphed) were adopted. The Chairman. Mr E. 13. Cargill, thought the shareholders would be . satisfied at the bauk holding its own. The depression was uot to bo ascribed to anything peculiar to the country, but was simply the reflection of what ex-, iited all over the world. The: alterar tious m the articles of association were, carried, after ja-?ppU; .was taken. That' . for allpwingthe re-election of Directors without a year's interval was carried ' byV JB4s;tp 192, and that for doing away' with the limit of representation by' proxies; by 777 to 204. "" The profit and less account of the Roslyn i Tramway Company * shows'^ a^ credit balance idi £363. No dividend is declared. '-..''- ■ Inveroabgill. Thursday." Thompson's Hotel, Forest Hijl, has: been destroyed by fire. The insurances aro £25(3 m the South British, and £250 m the New Zealand. No particulars are., to hand. . : ; . Kumara, Thursday. At a large publid meeting held m the Town .Hall to consider the proposed' scheme for the construction of the East and West Coast aiid Railway* it was resolved j" That this meeting desires -to express its satisfaction at; the success which the East, and -West Coast Eailway delegates, met with when m London', and. •respectfully urges the Government to.endeavor to meet the proposals * of the in- ; tending contractors." ,"""■"■' | Wellington, Thursday. . ; .An attempt is being made to, if pos-. sible, to arrange a football match dunng •the Exhibition, North Island v. South Island. The various clubs have been communicated to, but no replies have iyet been received. It is intended that, the match should take place m September. , . The Government have received a letter from General Stewart -by the "Frisco mail stating that the Nordenfelt guns ordered hy the colony -are m aforwacd state, and that a superior class is expect ted to be shipped t» the colony shbrtlyV They also; received information that the, 12£- ton guns for the .colony are much stronger than, the same class sent to Aus- ; ti-alia; tliey also received information that a large quantity of the ammunition l and the other war material- --bVdered 'by the colony have been shipped.