TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 75, 27 August 1885, Page 4

TELEGRAMS.

(PER tJNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Christchurch, Wednesday. F. Arenas, Spanish Vice-Consul for New Zealand, received a letter by the mail yesterday from the Spanish ConsulGeneral m London, acknowledging, m very handsome terms, the subscription sent from Christchurch for the relief of the sufferers by the earthquake m Am dalusia. The Consul-General has also written to the management of the Christchurch newspapers, thanking them for the interest taken by their journals m the matter. At the twelfth annual meeting of the New Zealand Shipping Company yesterday, the Hon. E. Richardson and Messrs L. Harper and B. Wilkin were re-elected Directors. Messrs D. Craig and A. Carrick were re elected Auditors. There was a moderate attendance. The report and balance-sheet were adopted. The application for a change of venue to "Wellington m the case of Stewart v. Roydhouse and others (the Evening Press) has been adjourned by consent until 11th September. Dunedin, Wednesday. John Gillison has been committed for trial for burglary. Bail was allowed, himself m £300, and two sureties of; £150 each. v . AuckhaKD, Wednesday. At the inquest on the young man, Charles Willis Oxford, yesterday, the jury returned a verdict of " Accidental death, or caused through some other person." It appears, however, that deceased wrote a letter to his employer, Kincaid, from which it must be inf errred he contemplated suicide. (He had also written a memo of his will, dividing his life assurance money between his brother and sister. These facts are not consistent with the verdict. Wellington, Wednesday.. \ In the Divorce Court Cole v. Cole, and Watson (Palmerston N.) a decree absolute was granted. The e«.se of McFadgean v. McFadgean (Kaikoura), the wife being petitioner, the case was settled out of Court by the husband granting the wife alimony. The following cablegram has boDn received from the Colonial Secretary of New South Wales m reply to one from the Government regarding the smallpox : — " All known cases of small -pox are m strict solation- on 'the , hospital ship at the quarantine station, and were removed from the Oceanien, which left port on the eleventh instant m quoran tine. Should a case appear m Sydney, your health authorities will be duly informed." The Public Workß Statement contained 15.643 words, and was finished to Napier m 3$ hours, to Auckland m 3| hours, to Wanganui 11.59 p.m., and to Blenheim for the' South at 11.49 p.m., reaching Dunedin at 12.5 a.m. Kivell (Wanganui) and Price (Wakapua) maintained a speed of forh-two words per minute, and Bevan (Wellington) and Kirker (Wanganui) thirty-seven and two thirds words per minute throughout , I • .... . , . . . Invercabgill, Wednesday. The Champion is missing, together with crew, who are supposed to be drowned. She left Papitiki, Stewart Island, on August 24, for some small islands at the mouth of Patterson's Inlet. It was blowing strongly at the time. Next day, a rudder, believed to be that of the cutter, was picked up at Fuller's Point, and, as she could not be seen about, it is surmised she had been cap* sized. The tug Awarua was sent from Bluff m search, but was unsuccessful. The names of the -crew are : — W. Fortune, Master John Brown, and Henry Casland. „