TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1468, 30 September 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER MTITBD PJHESS ASSOCIATION". Ghbistchubch; Tuesday. "' '- : - One of five 251000-gallon tanks, which have lately been constructed:, here .for fire prevention' purposes, . was tested' on/ Sunday night. The two steairi i :fire T engines; throwing:' together 750 gallons of water per ininnte, worked for 31 minutes before they drew air. The result is regarded as very satisfactory. , , DdnkdiN, Tuesday. At tho inquest on the body found m the harbour, it has transpired 4hat it was not Davis, a seaman belonging; to the Pactole, and the body is riot identified. The y erd ict was found drowned. A Queenstown telegram states . that the Invincible: Company have struck a a leader, 1£ feet inside, showing coarse gold. ■- „ '.•'"■'.. ,■■■::. '■;■; -, . . , : At .the Police Court yesterday, Wil-, Hani D. Jackson was committed for trial on a charge of, embezzlement pf £18 odd from the Perpetual Trustees Agency Company. . . . „ '..'.; ;■ ■ / AsHßimTONi 'Tuesday.A snkrt shock of earthquake : took place here atsix.iuinutes to 1 on Sunday night; The direction was from' east toWOSti Greymouth, Tuesday The 44O.yards race for £100 a-side between Hunt, 'of Wellington,, dnd Q'Loughlin, of Brunnerton, was run on the racecourse yesterday afternoon, and was won by O'Longhiin by a couple of yards. Time, f>6gsac. The course was •.• covered with pools of water. '* ■'.'■«■■■' 1 Auckland, Tuesday. Eva Ethertd£?e, raged 14,: idaiogHter of Mr Etheridge, Crown Lands Department, narrowl}' escaped death by -poisoning. She •' was recovering from typhid fever, and was given carbolic acid instead 6f the proper niedicine ,by mistake. The 1 girl is m a. critical condition. • - r -