TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 68, 19 August 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(per jnited press association. Auckland, Tuesday. John Husband has been arrested on board the Suva on a charge of robbery at Wellington, and stealing a £5 note from a passenger on board on the voyage from Gisborne. He has been remanded. Dunkdin, Tuesday. At the annual meeting of the Patients and Prisoners' Aid Society, Judge Williams, m an apology for inability to preside, through illness, stated that lie had intended saying something 'on the system which was m forctt m part of America, permitting prisoners to go at large on probation. The report oE (he Society showed that 200 persons had obtained aid from the funds, and nearly as many more help m other directions. The outlay has been £420 and the income £416. The escort has brought down £25,000 worth of gold. CnRiSTCHURCfi, Tuesday; Mr Cooper who was injured m the coarh accident which cost Mr Hebden his life, died at the Hospital about half past 11 o'clock last night. At the inquest this afternoon, the jury returned a verdict of accidental death. TiMAitu Tuesday. At the Magestrate's Court yester-iay Henry Luson, laborer, was sent to gaol for one month for brutally assaulting his wife and children, and 14 days for assaulting a constable. At the same Court James Willis was committed for trial at the Supreme Court for attempting to draw money from the Post Office Savings Bank by means of a book belonging to a mate of his named Bernard Kennedy. Greymouth, Tuesday. A slight shock of earthquake was felt here on Sunday night shortly after 8. Thames, Tuesday. A largely attended meeting of burgesses was held last night to consider the steps to be taken to urge Government to proceed with the construction of the Thames Valley line. A resolution was adopted, That this meeting is of opinion that the improved prospects of the district demand a more earnest prosecution of the Railway works from the Thames to Te A roh a, viz., by at once inviting tenders for the bridges over the five creeks between Kopu and Hikutai, which will complete the formation of the lino as far as the present contract extends ; also, that surveys and workin" drawings for the continuation of the line to Te Aroha should be at once undertaken, and immediately thereafter contracts be let for the construction of this important section of the Thames-Te Aroha railway. It was also resolved, That copies of the foregoing should be forwarded to Government and members for the districts of Thames, Coroinandel, VVaikato, and Tauranga, requesting them to act m concrt m urging Government, to place a sufficient sum on the Estimates to accomplish tlio works, and pouititigont that though seven years have elapsed since the railway was begun not one mile is yet open for public traffic.