TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume x, Issue 1448, 7 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(j?ER JNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. Dunedin, Saturday. At a public meeting at Port Chalmers a resolution was passed approving of the action of the Committee m refusing a license to the Royal Hotel, and disapproving of the Colonial Secretary granting it a club license. A letter was received from the licensees of other houses approving the Committee's action. The weather yesterday morning was very severe, and snow fell, accompanied by very heavy wind; but, though cold, the weather has now settled. Invekcabgill, Saturday. The Chamber of Commerce yesterday resolved, "That this Chamber views with alarm the proposal to ask Parliament to vote £150,000 for the purpose of commencing the East and West Coast Railway, because the passing of such a vote would commit -the Colony to con structing a gigautic work, which neither the circumstances of the Colony at the present time nor the nature of the country traversed warrant the Colony m prosecuting." Complaints have been made to the Education Board of the conduct of Mr Young, the teacher of the school at Orepuki, who, on the occasion of Mr Fulton's lecture, locked the audience inside, and caused intense excitement for this reason, that at previous temperance meetings the people had been nearly suffocated by the burning of I pepper and chemical substances m the ventilators. The school teacher was caught red-handed on the last occasion, and was compelled to unlock the door. He offered to apologise to Mr Fulton privately, and has done so to the School Committee ; but the Good Templars resolved to carry the matter to the Board. The schoolmaster is a young man of retiring disposition. Auckland, Saturday. % A man named Hugh Reynolds was killed at Waitiangi by a log rolling on him while measuring timber. Isaac Salva and Tarawhite Hetaraki have been committed for trial at Mongonui for shooting cattle and using the meat. Grrymouth", Saturday The port has been closed all the week through floods and a rough bar. The Murray, which arrived last Sunday morning, still lies at the wharf. The bar is still rough, so that there was no shipping yesterday. New Plymouth, Saturday. The Mayor has called a meeting for Monday for the purpose of considering what action should be taken to represent the injustice this district is suffering from through the present railway management.