TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1463, 24 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PHI* JXITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. r . . Hokitika. Wednesday. N The Bank of New Zealand has shippedvpsterdav 32130z gold, valued at £12,Si>2 \\ n 'n% their month's purchases m t)ie;districk TrMABU, Wednesday. At a meeting of the Harbor Boai'd yesterday, it was definitely decided to raise a loan of £100,000, under, the , authority of the Act passed th's session, for the continuance of the breakwater, dredging, wharves, etc. ...._.: Balcltjtha, Wednesday. A dwellinghpnse of three rooms, belonging to Mr H eaton Marr. a contractor- . here, was burned with its contents at 3 o'clock yestcrdaj' morning. Mir Marr was 'reading newspapers m bed, with a . candle on a chair, and fell asleap. It is supposed that the candle ignited the paper and then the curtains. By "the time . he ■ had cot out a safe and. his family the building had caught, and was speedily 'consumed, There is an insurance m the National office on the building of £150 and on the furniture of £100. Dunkdin, Wednesday, A cake of gold weighing 700 ounces has been sent down from the Phoenix mine. ' -.-".V Wellington, Wednesday. ■ At the R.M. Gofirtj a man -named " Grimes was charged with acting as a medical man without being possessed of the necessary qualifications. It appears . that he has attended several patients, and, m one instance, given a certificate of death. Grimes did not appear, and a warrant was issued for his arrest. ..' Tho Registrar General Rtated that Grimes applied to be registered as a medical practitioner, but that the certificate was , refused on the ground of there being no qualifications. The Wellington and Wairarapa Accli; matisation Society has made the following distribution of salmon fry, hatched' . out at. the Masterton fish ponds from oya imported by Mr Farr, f rom Scotland :— Six thousand three hundred were liberated m the head waters of the Manawatu on account of the Nap> or society, , four thousand six hundred m the Hutt ' river, and two hundred were sent to Wangannt. Auckland, Wednesday. A fire at Hikuransri, near Whangarei, yesterday., destroyed J. i^cKay's. dwejling house, store and post-office. McKay • barely escaped with his life. Insurance on building and stock, £800 m the New ,■ Zealand offlec. ;