TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 66, 17 August 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PKtt JXITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION. . ; CHRisfcHUECH, Saturday. ' /A meeting of the . subscribers ton the Moorhouse statue was held yesterday;; when it was stated .that "the relatives of the late W. S. Moorhouse recognise the statue as being, whfln seen from a certain standpoint^ , a remarkably truthful .likeness- of him; Its merits as a work of art are "generally iSbhsidefed" very great. & curious , ruetitipxiris.; bsng .circulated. 'ly^.tiie^lWeUingtoa' \Vork\ng Men's Club for presentation to Sir George Grey. One of the promoters lias sent a copy to. Clinstclmrch, from which it appears that: the petitioners pray, Sir .George Grey /to ". olahorate some scheme, whereby those who wish to avaUthetnselves of it may; be enabled to -emigrate to South Africa, because (the petition sets out inter alia) all the best of the land iaTSfew Zealand has gone into the hands of a few people or into those of mercantile corporations. The majority of those who corrie here :tu seek homesteads have been disappointed, and. jtaiation yearly/ bec^mejjiieavieyi '■■ ■■,;■"■ •»■• Dunedin^. Saturday. Two men named Bloxham and M^Lellan have been ctiinmittecl f or. trial for rob^ biiig a navvy,. from .Nenthbrri,' of £30: They hadbeen shepherding, and getting him into, a quiet place, one relieved - him of liis pocketbbok wiiile ilje other detain- ' ■dd ; him. \ >.';'[ l r '"■"■■■:'". " ";."'* V. llVV '"" :; At. the inquest on MoVicar, filled at Hindon on; Tuesday, a verdipt of. . accidentally killed by d' stone, rolling 1 on him. was returned. Decease' Was -"twenty-' tliree.yea.rs .pf age, and^ras.-Jipm m New Zealand I.'1 .' , — — -• , ■ , Nelson* Saturday* ' • About 1 6'clocic ;j yesteitiday : afternoon the residence of Mr John Brown, id; Russell-stree^ was Entirely destroyed by . fire, f The insurance^ on' the building is £3pQ, and ,on the contents ;£^so,:(all iri tlie Soiitlv ßritish. " The cause/was ignition of clothes hung ]bef ore a fire. i:The insurance doe's not cover the total loss. J?onr ; lionrs later. ;a second house m ' the same street, occupied, by Mr Vendore, was also totally 'destroyed by; fire. ; The supposed cause was sparks from the f br^ : < mer fire. .The buUding. was insured ;in the Srin ; Office, but the amount is uhas--certainable.'•'•■■■;'.•;;' •. i ;