TELEGEAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1464, 25 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGEAMS.

(PER JXITKb PRESS ASSOCIATION. : [ 'Dctnedin, Thursday. At the Land Board, .it was resolved to produce the rentals, of 18 runs owned by? the Crown, and 19 by the School Commissioners. Nearly all the runs had been offered more" than once at the former rentals; The reductions m sonic cases are fully one half. .. A license to prospect for minerals over 3480 acres at Bip- Bay. Wesfc Coast, was granted. " A case came before the Supreme Court on Tuesday m which it was sought to recover from the master of the Ls.dy Onfferin the cost of, .conveying goods from JPort Chalmers to Dunedin. The ? bill of lading specified the port of Dunedin, and the Judge' held that delivery at Port Chalmers was a sufficient discharge. :■...' Br.KNHErsr, Thursday. " ; . Matthew Daniels 'has been sentenced to 14 dars' hard labor for assaulting Stephen Oliver. The parties were neigh" bors, and a quarrel arose about some flrevyood and the -ohildren throwing stones at one another. Oliver went to. Daniels' house to inquire what the row was about, nnd after a dispute, during 1

which it is alleged that Ohv«r threatened Mrs Daniels and bit her on the mouth, Daniels drove Oliver out into the road, and knocked him down, with a heavy piece 6f scantling and stunned him. The parties are both laborers. Auckland, Thursday. Prospectors just returned from the King Country report that . the country round Te Kuifii is gold bearing, and that there are payable alluvial deposits m the bed of the Waipa River. At the. City Council meeting to-night the committee report on retrenchment was to be considered. The proposals are understood to include striking £100 off the salary of the Town Clerk, £200 off Engineer.and dispensing with the services of the rate collector, and Inspectors of Abbatoirs.