TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 64, 14 August 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(PBB JNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION. . Masterton, Thursday. , The arrangements for a loan of £10,000 by the Borough Council from the Government Insurance Association for gas works hayo collapsed. It: was stated at the Council meeting Lst night that the Association' cannot legally lend to a Corporation. The Council now in- , tend floating debentures through the Bank. 1 1 iThe report that; the body of G* Buc , ;drownedin ;tho Wainuirivu, > has bean < found, is incorrect. If the body had been 1 washed 28 miles . away, it would be eight miles out at s,ea. : ; ;,,,; . >. ( „.', .■ \ Auckland, Thursday., ; : ' Mr ; Nelson Larmer, son of Mr Lttrrnerj of Kaitai, went pigebn .shooting, and being missed, wag found dead froni a giin^ shot wQund ! in the, : head.. It is believed that the gun caught \\i the scrub. „ . ; , Two children of Mr Eobert Henderson, of Mercury Bay, have been poisoned through /eatinfr tutu berrieis. On6ivfive years old, is dead, and the other, three years old, is m a precarious condition. ; There, is a raoyem'ent t.o commence a system at the Nokli Shor^. : The Eechabite Jubilee was colebrated here by Ja banquet. At the District Council a motion was passed- to support the Friendly Societies; Amendment Actprop«sed.by/Sir Julius. . Vo'ffeK " -'■■■■■ ■•: ■'" _ ' ••'" '' ';;' v .";' ' Captain Smith, formerly master of the •, Wesport Company's Kawatiri, died m ; the-Hospital. ■ , ' . The troubles on board the Grassmere are coming, before the Magistrase. "A iV ' number . of. the crew -have >laid informal tions., ■' •:> '?-,.'*. :~: : -«\S.~ ■■'■■„'• ■■•■.. ■'■; '^^ '-:'.■■' A chifd'named' Hair died from poison^ ing this morning. -Matches were :found .m the" bed with the .heads suck ed off. ' ) ' ' An action brought by _ Mrs • Kis§ling • againat the Government for the recovery of land taken as. a 1 battery site' came before Judge Gillies yesterday. The. re,cently passed Public Works. Act Amendment, Act to validate Bucly appropriation 3 was produced, and, being found retrospective m operation,' nothirij? remained but to let tho matter go before the Cbni-i p3twation Court, m qrderto assess the' value of suchjland. ; At the Bay of Islands Coal Cdmpiny annual meeting to-day the report aho vecl that although .18,238 tons ot were sold during the, year the operations resulted m a loss of £283. . ' \'' v Christchdrch, Thursday. The body of a newly-born . female infant was found m the river near the Stanmore Bridge yesterday morning; !,,' , The Industrial Association last nitcht appointed a sub : conimittee , to draw up a report on the forking of the Factpnes. 1 Act, which the members consider unduly l interferes with the Industrial progress of the Colony. Another resolution affirmed that the space allotted to New Zealand! at the forthcoming Colonial and Indian Ex^t hibition was not more than a third of ; that, required, and it was resolved to re-* quest the. Government to tak.e. steps to procure more space for the manufactures 1 and productions of the; polony, inpre- ; ference to occupying any .portion .with ferneries, encampments, &c, as proposed by Dr. von Haast. ■• It waa also agreed to ufge on Government the great importance of taking decided steps 4 uring the present session towards constructing the West Coast Eailway. Dunedin, Thursday ' Scott's backers have sent £iOO to Sir J.DrAstley, with a request that he will endeavor to find a man m thejUnJted> Kincfdoiii to mast Scott m . a twelve ) and^ '„ twenty : four hours' walk, for £500 a-side etch match. ' . _ Amonar the passengers from Melbourne by the Te Anau is Mr E. Crestlake, of. the Australasian and Argus. He id po.a visit to the Colony with a view of cohr. tributing articles to these papors, and intends more especially to deal with the industries of the colonies. ' ■ A man, named John MeViekar,; wafc killed at Hindon on Tuestia\ r by a fall ! of earth. There are as ' yet no par^ ticularß. '..•••. The .National Bank have intolligence'. ,■ that the rttsolntions were unanimously - confirme<l by the London shirelnMers, ! not cancelled, as stated m the caMosfrarq. Tlje body of Mrs Rector McKonzJe, j

who was drowned m a flood at Manawati las' September, liiis been brought here, and bnri«d m the family vault. A boxing mutch took place last night m which Donovan, tho light-woight champion of Auckland, undertook to knock oiit Parker, the local Wst champion m four rounds, which he failed to do. Tha boxing was very heavy. Timaru Thursday. At the annual meeting of the .Timaru Woollen Factory last night, it was stated that the machinery was; »ow on its ,way from lloine, and it was expected opora- , tions would be commenced m four or live ■months. .' . . .. . , .!.:.<'-•■. . ' ■■