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Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 62, 12 August 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

_ . ; (PNITED PBRB^ ASSOCIATIOH.) - ' Auckland, Tuesday. A body his been found m the harbou/, , ahd iclebtificd as tliat of George Alcott 'alias Martin, a labourer. -'■;'• ■William Athol. wlio fell 40. feet at CCarl r l : ppe 3)ock,vdied .-at the hospital of theinjuries beLreceivcfl.^ ' .', ■' *. .' ] , ;oeieii AVCaspir has been committed •fortrial on two .Charges of fraudulent embezzietrienfcV " The Harbour Board has decided not to introduce the proposed Loan Bill m the Assembly this session. It was also decided not to prosecute a compensation claim foMahd m Mechanics Bay against the Government, but, to accept the terms offered by the Government, namely, to-, reclaim-part of the bay and hand a portion pf the i reclainaedlahd over to the board. !^ ...;■' '■ " ' ....',■ - v : The Be y. McKenzie Eraser is dead. --"He * ,^ was brother inAaw'tio Hugh Miller, the • eminent geologist. \: ; . -^ r^ : . - " .' "- Wellington, Tuesday. ■ The body 6i Giorge Buck, vho was drowned while attempting to cross the T7ainui Oro River last- Monday, has been ; found about twenty-eight miles down the river from where the accident occurred;; ; / ■ v •■■'• ■'•"-•" ■■; ; T^e^Wellingtoh Poultry, Pigeon, Can-ary,-Rabbit,: and Cat Association's second annual show was opened by the Governor to-day. There is a much larger numjber of ehtries.tha.n last year. . • In thaScaramelli poisoningcase, Moore . was cpnjniitted -foririal.* Has wife was discharged. PuNEDiNJ Tuesday. A riian named Smith, on the Cottesbrook station, cpmmitted suicide by taking poisoned grain. He was engaged as a rabbiter. No cause is assigned for the deed at present. . • fGBEYMbUTH, Tuesday. Ar6hibald Hunter, a publican of Hatter's Terrace, Nelson Creek, was thrown from his horse while riding home, and was dragged over 200 yards through one of his legs oatobing m the stirrup. His injuries are ißve ribs broken, two of them m two places, and the left liing lacerated. The injuries are «p serious that they may prqye fetal, ' Christchuroh, Tuesday. At a public meeting, held at Rangiora }ast night, and attended by 40Q persons, if : was. decided,-" Th.at this meeting is of opinion "that- Govcrntnent should conatriuct the line and that, they be memorialised to borrow money to carry it. put at qnce." : The South IWaitnakariri River Boards its n^eeting this afternoon, passed a resolution, eipressing a Hope .that the government 1 will leave pp means untried to have the "West Opasf railway ifliti^d sess.ipn.