TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1466, 28 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(per jnited press association. Auckland, Friday. |, Thomas Dunn and" Charles Barker, miners employed by the Gold Prospecting Association to prospect m the King country, returned to Alexandra on Wednesday, unsuccessful, having been turned back by the Natives. The Wanganui party were similarly treated.. Dunn is satisfied that the country through which, they travelled was both an alluvial field and good reefing country. He believes there is gold m the Waipa river, although he saw none. The Natives ! used no force. The fine of i?SO, recently imposed on .Captain Munro, of the barque Altair, for neglecting to report a quantity of sugar on his manifest, has been reduced to £10 m consequence of representations made by himself to the Government by petition. On "Wednesday night, before the s.s. Te Anau left for Sydney.the warp carried away unexpected^. It was discovered, on 'examination, that the warp had been ■cut by some sharp instrument. Later on; it was found that the warps of the B.S. Waihora and the ship Duchess of Argyle were also cut partly through***^ that an ordinary strain would cause them to snap. The police are on the lookout I for, the perpetrators of the act, the i motive for which it is difficult to im- | agine. Saturday. A servarrt girl . named O'Halloran. was arrested two 'days ago for theft at Pah Farm, and bailed out. She attempted to . commit suicide by taking "Bough on Rats," but prompt* medical assistance saved her life; A woman residing m .Victoria-street while asleep the other night was bitten on the cheek by a rat. Symptoms of blood poisoning have since appeared, the face being: swollen fearfully. She is under; medical treatment, out is seriously illi ; •'•••? _•• Mr Peverel,. dairyman, was attacked by a ltfrge dog, which caught him by the throat and forced him backward to the ground, where he was; severely bitten. He struggled for fifteen minutes. The dog,, foaming and biting, fell dead, and Mr Peverel being exhausted, was removed to Ins- residence.' The owner of the dog was not discovered. Chbistchubch, Friday. At the Resident Magistrate's Court yesterday, James Willis, printer, was fined £5 for a breach of the Printers and Newspapapers Kegistfation Act m failing to print his name and address on a copy of tlij? Pall Mall Gazette disclosures which he printed for sale. Robert Aherne, Charles Christian Somers, and Alfred Simpson, booksellers, were charged with selling the pamphlet, but the infor« mation was dismissed, as the Bench did not think- they had committed any offence. ' Saturday. At a meeting of Heathcote electors at Woolston, attended by about 100 persons, a resolution was passed, with only nine dissentients, expressing dissatisfaci tion with ;the absence of Mr J. L.- Coster from Parliament, and requesting him to resign. TiMAitu, Friday.. | Matthew Burnet, a teetotal lecturer, has been very successful here. Over four hundred persons m Timaru and the surrounding districts have taken tha pledge. .....; • Saturday. Abont four yesterday morning an alarm of fire, the first this year, was given. It proved that the premises of the Timaru Boot Palace Company were on fire: They were almost gutted and • the stock nearly destroyed, : ■ ' ' 'Nelson, Friday. Joseph Ford Duncan, of Riwaka, is dead. ' Deceased, who was much respected, was a settler m the district for over 43 years. He leaves a widow, S children, 60 grandchildren; and 3 great grandchildren. He had attained the ripe age of 79. Dunedin, Friday. ••■ William B. Jackson, who was arrested m Aucklandjwas yesterday brought up on a charge of embezzlement and remanded on bail. The statement of liabilities and assets m the estate of James Shand gives the former at £24,000, and the latter at £10,320. A composition had Tjeeri accepted by most the creditors of 10s, but as it was not generally agreed to it was;, not concluded. . A singular case of love ot adventure m a bo> was heard at the Police Court, when the father of a ten-year-old' boy applied to have his own son committed to the Indmt-ial. School, as he was tutabb t> control him. -It was shown that .since ntiaining- six years of .age the boy has male ceaseless efforts to become his own master. He has been away from home for more than a week at a time, and has been discovered m the bush, where he managed. -.to- exist somehow, l'ghtins his own fire. Last Saturday he secured £B during his parents' abscence, and was not discovered till Wednesday. The lad could not be got to school, and prefejTed .sleeping in'a dog-kennel to a -v le.1, ": Ho was committed to, the school// • The body of a man, floating face fow.iwan l , was .found ;in the harbor neir the Dunedin wharf, yesterday m >rningi and was identified .as' that of Robert Davis, a sailor, formerly of the Wan:ika, but Jately of the barque Pactoli, which loft Dunedin for Anokland on the 9th instant. The right arm was broken, ' «nd tin head cut severely, and foul play •\yis at first suspected. It Is surmised, however, that he must have fallen off the vessel and struck something, beforfl^ leaching the prater. ... . . Latbr, . The medical exatninstion of the body found m; the harbor indicates that the head and arm were brqken by a blowfrom the screw of a steamer. The fete, m aid of the BuYns Statue. Fund, lield under electric light, was not ! entirely successful; During the f ofltbaji match the light went out mpre ihian once, and the players found themselves m darknes3. It other respects the novel ; entertainment was enjoyable. . ' The Amateur Alhletic Association, owinir to internal dissensions, was' dissolved,, and two new ones are started. Wellington, Saturday. Chief Defective. Brown, of Wellington, has been promoted to the position of inspector of police. Detective Neill, of Christchurch, is promoted to the. position of chief detective, to be stationed at Christchurch. A dwellinghnuse on Wardell's run, at Te Whiti, Master ton,' Avas destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon. The loss is about £400. It is believed to be Jn- v , sured. ' .