TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 61, 11 August 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(per united press association. Auckland, Monday. Mr Eeca 1 New Zealand Co-operative Land and Labor Company has been formed and registered. Mr EeesasnoAy making an effort to get a sufficient number of shareholders to apppint local Directors m Auckland. The Education Board has resolved to contest a claim of the Official Assignee for arrears fif salary due to Pea cock when he left the service of -the Board. The Whangarei (Whauwhau) Coal Company's railway^ connecting with the Government line, is irow completed, and has been passed by the. District Engineer. ■■*'■ -■„ ' Mr Leclcy, a well-known football player, fell 30ft from the roof of a house and injured liis hip. He was greatly , shaken. The Waikato police who went to excute the 'warrants taken out by Mr Fallon, the contractor for the Botorua railway, against the natives guilty of obstructing the work, have returned to the Waikato with six natives m custody. On reaching the bridge where the offence was committed, the police found no natives about and went on tojthe settlement, Sergeant M'Govern stated the object of: his- visit and advised the natives to come, m peacefully, which they consented to do and they arrived with the police at Mornsville, en route for Hamilton. Dunedin, Monday. ;/r The glove fight between Baymond, of Wellington, and Davis, a local man, turned out a fiasco. Raymond would not turn out at first, saying he was sick ; and when hp did it was seen ho knew little of boxing, bur as he was bigger than Davis he stood five rounds. No judges were present, and each claimed to have won. There was an extremely small attendance.