TELEGRAMS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume X, Issue 1469, 1 October 1885, Page 2

TELEGRAMS.

(PER 3NITBD PRESS ASSOOIATIQK. Auckland, Wednesday. Mr Speed, solicitor, has written to the Attorney-General, asking, .permission to enter a suit against members of the Board of Education to compel them to pay into the Board fund money paid away mMr Peacock's case. Action has, it appears, to be taken again3t each member ot the Board separately. The troubles of Captain Calder, of the . ship Nerbudda, with tba Lascar crew, are not , yet ended. They accepted £4 each, and a discharge, but the Customs Departinsnt decline to recognise the arrangement, and require the men to be discharged at Calcutta, where they were., shipped. The men objo3t to proesed further m the vessel, and bylaw, the. Customs cannot orilor them aboard. To prove th*t Auckland has a "Mother Jeffries," a local labour agent writes to the Star that the keeper of a well-known house has asked him to supply two handsome parlourmaids, and promised to liberally reward him " if they turned out well." Blenheim, Wednesday. Mr William Dousl : n, architect, andono of the Borough Councillors, ■will c-mtesv the Mayoralty against Mr George Henderson, the retiring Mayor. A keen fight is expected. Timartj, Wednesday. The hons«. of Mr J. G. McKay, near Pleasant Point, was bur ie-1 down early yesterday morning. The inmates, including several chillren, had-a very narrow escape, and they saved mthins. The house was insured, but m what office is -riot known.* A number of sacred vessels, which w ere stolen from the Roman -Catholic Church at Geraldine, a considerable time' ago, were diseoyered.yesterday m a flaxbush. * , „''.. Oamabu, Wednesday. A boy aged eight years die 1 suddenly on Sun lay morning. An inquest was held to-day, at which the medical evidence gtiye the cause of death as poison, ing. It appears that the boy had eaten green rhubarb tops on Saturday last, and on SatuAlav night and Sunday morning was taken ill with vomiting and purging. Tho vost mortem examination reveler! the fact that the irritation carrel by eating the rhubarb had brought about congestion of the brain. ■* , There is trouble m the Blue Ribbon Army. A short time ago the Gornm'ttee demanded the resignation of the Pcesident, giving their reason for doing so. A committee of investigation was appointed, who reported against the action of the Army Committee. The Army Committee, has resignerl, anrl there is a probability that two branches of the Army will be at work m Oamaru.- . ' : . Dunedin, Wedneslay. j 1 Up to the present about 12000 sqnare feet of space has been applied for by local manufacturers at the Indian and Colonial Exhibition m London. The Manufacturers' Association have renewed their efforts to induce Mr Graham Berry, of Victoria.to visit the Colony, and expect a favorable reply. Both Messrs North and Scoullar, of the Iron and Woodware Company, lnve forwarded protests against the awards made for furniture. . Mr Feanley, of Nelson College, has been appointed rector of Port Chalmers School. Christohttbch, Wednesday. A sad accident is reported from Lees ton. Three children of Mr Douglas were playing on a straw stack when one, who had some matches, set fire to the straw. Though assistance was close at hand, and two of the children were dragged from the burning s'raw, the flames' had got too great a hold for it to be, pos. sible to save the third child, a , litMe boy, three years old.^yhp was burned to death.' ; r Invepcabgill, Wednesday. A. fire broke out m the stables attached to the Carriers' Arms Hotel, Dee street, at 3 o'clock ye=itei'day mornine". The flames rapidly spread to the hotel, wlreh was an old' wooden building, and waa soon destroyed, togethar with anothor range of, «tab!as and a building adtyoent, f ojwerly q»e^ as a butpher's shop, t

Hawera, Wednßs ay. A fire occurred at Maxwell's if otj! this nornins:, at nine o'clock. T-ie origin is nvsterious. The fire broke out m the lining near the kitchen , chiuney, but there is no trace of a Bro having bean communicated from the fireplnce orclumnoy. The fire was extinguished by the Fire Brigade when about £60 worth of damage had been done. Insurance — BuiMing, £200 m the Northern, £300 m the Phoenix, £400 on the furniture, and j£3oo on the stock m the Colonial. Wellington", Wednesday. At a meeting of the Exhibition Executive it was decided not to keep the Exhibition open longer than the original date. . Arrived — Ship Zealandia, Captain Phillips, one hundred and six day 3 from London.:. ..-..:- The following cablegram with reference to the quarantined circus at Auckland has been received from the Government of New South Wales :— " Hon. Colonial Secretary, Wollington.— Circus- animals. - The same course as taken by you will be taken here. Alex. Stuart, Colonial . Secretary, Sydney." Precautions, are to j be taken to prevent introduction of smallpox from New Soath Wales.