TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1458, 18 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PBR JNITBD PRESS ASSOCIATION". Chiiistchuboh, Thursday. Mr G. C. Bowen', 'Chairman of the Committee of the West Coast railway guarantors, has reciy-ed-a telegram from Mr A'. Dabson, announcing that he and his fellow delegate, Mr Fell,, of Nelson, have arrived at Dunedin m the R.M.S. Tongariro, and will reach Lyttelton to • day. . ■ = " The police* have laid information against a -printer and booksellers for breaches of the Printers; and Newspapers Registration Act by selling copies of the Pall Mall Gasrtte revelations printed m Christchtirch. .The informations have nothings to do with the nature of the matter, published, bht are laid on the ground that the name or place of abode of this printer did not appear on the fir«t and last leaves of the pamphlet. V "Ashbitbtox, Thursday. Tlic election to fill two vacancies m the County Council, held yesterday, re« suited as follows : — Gr. W.Leadlev, 211 ; E. G. Wright, 15? ; J. R.-C.^raham, 89; John Grigg, 85 ; W. Stfachan/ ! 66. A man named Thomas Smith shot himself here early yesterday morning. ' . Timaecv; Thursday, i Some shepherds .who.- were recently 'burning tussocks on the edge of Lake Pukaki, m Mackenzie Coniitry, state that about dusk m the evening 'they observed a large black object, which they at first took to be a boat keel upwards. On approaching: it, however, it turned round and dashed into the water,' making a great splash. At a meeting of the Geroldine County Council yesterday, it \iras. resolved to apply to the Government" Insurance De- . partment for the loan of £750 for irri- * gation works. Auckland^ Thursday. A public meeting was held at St. JamesVHall re Mr W.L. Rees* land, labour, and capital co-operative scheme. Resolutions were carried m favor of appointing a delegate .to expound the scheme through the; Colony ; also m favor of the East Coast, petition m relation to settlement of Waste Lands on ;■ the lines of f his project' There was a lagge attendance. . . ! l George Berry, a seaman, stabbed another seaman named Sryce last nigh^ during a row m the forecastle of th.c ship Ijuulje.ss oj Argy.l?. 3Bhej..fteapor4 used was a sheatb/ kqife, which inflicted a wound barely an inch deep m Brycete left breast. Berry is now in 'custody. Bryce's injuries are not dangerous.