TELEGRAPHIC.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 1444, 2 September 1885, Page 3

TELEGRAPHIC.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Wellington, Tuesday. The Survey Department will undertake observations of tha approaching eclipse from Otahua Hill, aboat six miles from Mastcrtou, when the stoppages of the corona will be taken, am] every endeavour will bo made to contribute to the elucid ition of this phenomena. The steamer Stella encountered the full force of a gale while off The Brothers yesterday at 3 p.m. A large body of water broke over the port side smashing and washing away the port : boat and davits, considerably damaging the starboard boat, and putting the vessel on her beam ends. Wednesday. At the R M Court this morning Mrs Nicliolls, wife of a laborer at the Upper Ilntt. was charged with having on the 18lh August committed a breach of the Public Works Act by placing her child on the- railway line. The Magistrate thought the case was one of carelessness, ami as the woman had had trouble enough to make her more cautious m future liu dismissed l the case. . ... An old man aged BO years named Taylor who was one of the founders of the eight hours system is d<:ad. A man named James Walden was arrested on a charge of being implicated m the Tarring case at the Hutt. WiSSTPORa 1 , Tuesday. V Bad : weather, with heavy thunder j and lightening 1 , was .experienced here j yesterday. The lightening -Btruck the wire rope and rails; on the.. Koranui coal incline and ran into the coal mine. .Several hands and a pony, were knocked down by the severity of the shock. No injury to life or limb resulted, bat the' work of both the Koranui and " Westport inclines is. tompufirly <lis-.ontii.tnd. ' ■■