TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 55, 3 August 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

- (per united press association. ' • Auckland, Saturday. The' New Zealand Accident Insurance Company paid an interim dividend yeste.rday. ; " ! • , At the half-yearly meeting of the Taupiri Extended Coal Company the report showed a profit .of £3180. A dividend ■ was declared' of is per share, and a/bpnus of ls"6d per share." £'1680 was carried forward. . ' ' , „, The Gas Company's: profits : for the :fialf-year are £75.15. A dividend ; has ' bedn 'declared at the; rate of 17 per , cent, per annum. ■" -.-. The City Council met to consider the proposals. to reduce the official salaries 15 per cent, but broke up without a formal adjournment after a lively scene, m" which some Councillors made peculiar charges against the Town Clerk. * • ' " INVEBOABGiix. Saturday.; : A ploughman ''employed by Mr Charles Dean, Etal Creek, got into his, master's, bedroom by; the windowV . on evening, and severely, assaulted him and "his' wife by striding $hem on the head '"with" a claw hammer. The police haye • gone to arrest 1 the man. The assault was the result of a quarrel, it is alleged. ■i. -__, '■'- . ■.■"-••' -• Dunedin, Saturday.^ ; Several attempts have been,made during the past week to i injure the Mornusigton cable tram, apparently by larrikins. Screws have been taken out of the pwlleys, stones have been jammed m the gripper points, and obstructions .placed on the line, which might Have caused ja serious accident if they had not been discovered.. .The company are offering & reward. ... ! The : hills surrounding Dunedin aire "white with snow.. In town, cold sleet and rain has fallen nearly all day. - \ S.S. Hutcliesoh, who has been 're arrested, took the train 'at Caversham for jlnyeroargill, and gotting out atMosgiel tp send a telegram he, had no tima to 'finish it before the train started. Throwing it ;away,:.it was picked up by the constable', who discovered that he wished a friend to meet him at InvercargilL- ... -T-he .police, gave information to one of the * bonds j men, who then took proceedings whicbj resulted m Hiifchosonls arrest.